Tony Reno began his tenure with Harvard Crimson in 2009. Reno serves as the Crimson's defensive backs coach and special teams coordinator.
Reno recruits the Atlantic Coast section of the United States including Georgia, Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee.
In 2009, Harvard's defensive backs spearheaded a defensive unit that ranked 14th nationally in pass efficiency defense; the Crimson intercepted 14 passes and broke up 63 more. Three of Harvard's defensive backs earned All-Ivy League status with Derrick Barker and Collin Zych earning first team honors and Ryan Barnes earning honorable mention status. On special teams, place kicker Patrick Long earned all-league honors as well.
Prior to coming to Harvard, Reno completed six seasons as an assistant coach/assistant head coach at Yale, working with the team's defensive backs for five of those seasons. Promoted to assistant head coach in 2007, Reno guided the team to its standing as one of the nation's top-ranked passing defenses ranking third in both 2007 and 2008. Yale ranked just behind Harvard's nation-leading pass defense in 2007 and was three spots ahead of the Crimson the next season. In 2006, Reno helped Yale to an Ivy League championship, the program's first since 1999.
Reno coached 15 All-Ivy student-athletes at Yale including five in 2008.
Prior to working in the defensive secondary with Yale, Reno worked with the wide receivers and is also a former defensive coordinator and secondary coach at his alma mater, Worcester State College (Mass.). There, Reno helped transform a 1-9 team into the ECAC Northeast Champions three years later. In his time at WSC, the program posted a 27-5 overall record with two playoff appearances. In 2002, Reno was honored with AFLAC National Assistant Coach of the Year Award.
His first coaching job came at King's College (Pa.), where he served as a defensive ends coach.
A 1997 graduate of Worcester State, Reno earned a degree in history before completing a master's of science in health education from WSC in 2000. As a player at WSC, Reno was a three-year starter at free safety, and his team was league champion both his junior and senior years. The team led the nation in scoring, rushing and pass efficiency defense in 1996.
Reno, his wife, Toni, and his sons, Dante and Vince, and daughter, Angelina, live in Sturbridge, Mass.