HAMILTON, N.Y. (4/21/10) - Colgate University head football coach
Dick Biddle has announced the appointment of
Pat Foley to co-defensive coordinator and
Stan Dakosty to secondary coach.
Foley, returns for his second season at Colgate after coaching the linebackers last year.
Prior to Colgate, Foley, spent three seasons on the staff at the United States Merchant Marine Academy, where he was defensive coordinator under former Raider assistant Mike Toop.
He graduated from Bates College in Lewiston, Maine where he earned his bachelor's degree in political science. At Bates, Foley was four-year starter and letterwinner at inside linebacker. He earned New England Small College Athletic Conference Defensive Rookie of the Year honors and was named first team All-NESCAC as a senior.
Foley began his coaching career in 2004 at Allegheny College as the outside linebacker coach, before spending the 2005 season as inside linebacker coach at Amherst College.
Foley, a native of Newburyport, Mass., is the son of former Colgate head coach Mike Foley, who is currently the offensive line coach at the University of Connecticut.
Dakosty, returns for his fourth season on the Raiders staff, after coaching tight ends and fullbacks for the past two seasons.
Dakosty a 2005 graduate of Colgate, coached the tight ends and work with the special teams, after returning to his alma mater from Amherst College, where he coached running backs for two years while earning a master's degree in education at the University of Massachusetts.
He began is coaching career while an undergraduate at Colgate serving as a student assistant and assistant video coordinator in 2003, before working with the tight ends in 2004.
Dakosty played two years of varsity football for the Raiders, helping them to the 2002 Patriot League championship, before he suffered a series of career-ending injuries.
As a student assistant in 2003, Colgate won the Patriot League championship and advance to the title contest of the Division I-AA playoffs while posting a 15-1 record.
