Jeff Genyk Position: Special Teams Coordinator/Tight Ends Experience: 3rd Season at Cal Alma Mater (Year): Bowling Green State (1982)

Jeff Genyk is in his second season as the special teams coordinator/tight ends coach at Cal and his 20th as a collegiate coach in 2011.

"Jeff has a high level of experience, expertise, energy and passion," head coach Jeff Tedford said. "He is a versatile and well-rounded coach that has all the qualities we are looking for in members of our coaching staff."

The special teams units improved in all three of the primary team statistical categories in Genyk's first season at Cal in 2010. The Bears improved 11 spots to No. 19 nationally in net punting (38.51 avg.), a single position to No. 23 in punt returns (12.16 ypr) and 24 places to No. 72 in kick returns (21.3 ypr).

In his first season at Cal in 2010, Genyk also helped punter Bryan Anger break a 23-year-old single-season school record with a 45.6 yard punting average (No. 2 Pac-10, No. 6 NCAA) and earn first-team All-Pac-10 recognition for the second consecutive year. A candidate for national honors in 2011, Anger's career 43.3 yard punting average trails only the 44.0 posted by Scott Tabor from 1986-87.

Giorgio Tavecchio put up career high numbers in nearly every category, playing in all 12 games and making 11-of-16 field goal attempts and 37-of-39 extra-point tries to rank second on the team with 70 points. He showed tremendous improvement from his 2009 performance in all areas including his average kickoff distance, which increased dramatically by 6.7 yards to 64.8 yards per kick and resulted in a nearly seven-yard improvement of opponent starting field position after kickoffs, from the 32.9 yardline in 2009 to the 25.7 yardline in 2010.

Before coming to Cal, Genyk served as the head coach at Eastern Michigan from 2004-08. He coached the Eagles to their best conference finish in seven years in 2004 with a third-place showing in the West Division of the Mid-American Athletic Conference. His 2006 squad ranked third nationally in punt return yardage defense and 15th in the nation the following season. Eastern Michigan also set three NCAA passing records as well as multiple MAC and school records during his tenure.

While at Eastern Michigan he coached three players (LB Daniel Holtzclaw, DE Jason Jones, PK Andrew Wellock) who earned All-American recognition. Jones was a second-round selection of the Tennessee Titans in the 2008 NFL Draft and has played 35 NFL games with 18 starts over the past three campaigns. Wellock was a finalist for the 2004 Lou Groza Award given annually to the nation's top placekicker. He also coached OT T.J. Lang, who was selected by Green Bay in the fourth round of the 2009 NFL Draft and over the last two campaigns has played in 28 regular-season games and five post-season contests for the Packers, including Super Bowl XLV won by Green Bay.

Genyk previously spent 12 seasons at Northwestern (1994-2003), with responsibility for the special teams unit during each of his final eight campaigns with the Wildcats. He was also the running backs coach and recruiting coordinator for five seasons (1999-2003) after having worked with the safeties in 1998 and the outside linebackers in 1997. During his first five campaigns, he was the school's Director of Football Operations (1994-96) and a defensive graduate assistant (1992-93).

Genyk was on the Northwestern football staff for three Big Ten championship teams and four bowl appearances. The 1995, 1996 and 2000 teams all won Big Ten titles. The 1995 squad played in the Rose Bowl, the 1996 team was in the CompUSA Florida Citrus Bowl and the 2000 club played in the Alamo Bowl. The 2003 squad participated in the Motor City Bowl.

In 2000, Genyk tutored Damien Anderson to a Northwestern school-record 2,063 rushing yards as the Wildcats' tailback earned All-American honors and finished fifth in voting for the Heisman Trophy. Another one of his Northwestern pupils, Jason Wright, reached the 1,000-yard rushing mark in both 2002 and 2003.

Genyk began his coaching career as an assistant coach at Grand Rapids Community College in Michigan, where he worked with quarterbacks and tight ends from December 1990 through the spring of 1992.

Prior to joining the coaching ranks, he worked in private business from 1982-91. He also has experience as a television color analyst, serving in that position for ESPN Regional Television's coverage of Atlantic Coast Conference football during the 2009 campaign.

Genyk was a quarterback and punter at Bowling Green State from 1978-81 and graduated from the school with a bachelor's degree in business administration in 1982. He also has two master's degrees with an MBA from Western Michigan in 1989 and a master's in education and social policy from Northwestern in 1994. A native of Milan, Mich., he was an All-State quarterback at Milan High School.

Last Updated: August 20, 2011