Greg Malo Position: Recruiting Coordinator/Secondary

In first year as assistant at Western ... Recruiting coordinator and works with defensive secondary ... Spent last six years as assistant at NCAA I-A Louisiana Tech University ... Coached outside linebackers in 2005 after working with running backs the previous three seasons ... Was linebackers coach for two years as graduate assistant, the 2001 Bulldogs winning Western Athletic Conference championship and playing in Humanitarian Bowl ... Worked with three future NFL players there - running backs Joe Smith (Tampa Bay, Houston and Tennessee) and Ryan Moats (Philadelphia) and linebacker Byron Santiago (Green Bay) ... All three players were first-team WAC all-stars, with Moats being named league's Player of the Year ... Prior to tenure at Louisiana Tech, coached at College of the Sequoias (Calif.), serving as defensive backs coach and defensive coordinator in 1998 and 1999 ... Worked with first-team All-American defensive back Jacob Yavasile, who was the Central Valley Conference defensive Player of the Year ... In 1998, the Giants posted a 9-1 record, were ranked among the top 10 nationally, and won conference title before losing to San Francisco City College in Northern California Junior College championship game ... Served as defensive backs coach in 1997 at national high school powerhouse Santa Margarita in southern California where the Eagles posted a perfect 14-0 record and won the CIF Southern Section championship ... Coached All-America defensive back Jon Minardi ... Also worked with the defensive backs in 1995 at Western as graduate assistant, the Vikings posting a perfect 9-0 regular season mark and being ranked No.1 nationally before losing to eventual national champion Central Washington in the playoffs ... Lettered four years and started three at Western from 1991 to 1994, earning first-team all-Columbia Football Association honors as senior free safety ... That season, Western boasted the No.1 scoring defense in the country and lost in the national quarterfinals, finishing 8-3 ... Played with the Barcelona Dragons of NFL Europe for three years as free safety, earning NFLE Player of the Week honors three times and helping Dragons to 1997 World Bowl title ... Earned bachelor's degree in exercise science from Western in 1995, and master's degree in sports science from Louisiana Tech in 2001 ... He and wife Megan have two sons, Timothy 4 and Max 1 ... 33 years old.