Tony Reno begins his first season with the Harvard Crimson in 2009. Reno will serve as the Crimson's defensive backs coach and special teams coordinator.

Reno will recruit the Atlantic Coast section of the united States including Georgia, Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee.

Reno completed his sixth season with the Bulldogs in 2008, 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 this past season.

Reno coached 15 All-Ivy student-athletes at Yale including five this past season.

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 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.

Reno, his wife, Toni, and his sons, Dante and Vince, and daughter, Angelina, live in Sturbridge, Mass.