SAVANNAH, Ga.- Savannah State University head football coach Robby Wells has hired Barry Casterlin to the Tigers coaching staff as running backs coach.

Casterlin comes to SSU from Cheyney University(PA) where he has coached since 2007 . In 2007, Casterlin was the Wolves defensive line coach but was promoted to Interim Head Football Coach for the 2008 season. He also served as special teams coordinator, video coordinator and recruiting coordinator.

From 2003-06, Casterlin was the secondary coach at Fairleigh Dickinson University in Madison, New Jersey. During that period he also was a physical education/health teacher at Madison High School in Madison, NJ. At Madison, he also served as assistant track coach and was an assistant football coach in 2006.

Casterlin was a physical education/health teacher at Lake City High School in Lake City, South Carolina from 2001-03. While at Lake City he also was Head Soccer Coach in 2003. He also served as assistant coach football and soccer.

The former defensive back at the University of South Carolina has also worked camps and clinics. From 2001-03 he was a coach and dorm floor supervisor at the Lou Holtz Football Camp in Columbia, SC. From 2004-05 he worked sessions at football camps in Georgia, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Indiana, Maryland, North Carolina and New England. Casterlin worked Sports International Football Camps in New England, PA, NJ and Colorado from 2006-08. He was a volunteer assistant track coach in Madison, NJ in 2004 and 2009.

Casterlin began his collegiate career at Sussex County Community College in his hometown of Newton, NJ in 1998. He earned a bachelor of science degree in physical education from the University of South Carolina in 2001. That same year he took graduate courses in Education at The Citadel.

Casterlin replaces Curtis Frye who left SSU to become tight ends coach at Tennessee State University in Nashville, Tenneessee.