Orono, Maine -- On Aug. 4, University of Maine head football coach Joe Harasymiak announced the addition of three members to his 2016 staff. Brian Picucci (Running Backs), Alvah Hansbro (Cornerbacks) and Josh Heinrich (Director of Player Personnel/Video Coordinator) will join the Black Bears for the upcoming 2016 season.

Brian Picucci joins the Black Bear staff with a wealth of 19 years of coaching experience. During his career, Picucci has mentored 32 all-conference players, 11 all-americans and Pro-Bowl selection and Super Bowl champion, Victor Cruz.

Picucci's longest coaching tenure came at UMass where he spent 11 total years (1998-99, 2004-12) on the Minutemen staff. Picucci was the run game coordinators/offensive line coach from 2004-08 in Amherst before being promoted to offensive coordinator in 2009; a position he held until 2012. While at UMass, Picucci's squad led the CAA in total offense in 2009 and 2010 and led the league in pass offense in 2010. Picucci mentored a 1,000-yard rusher in seven of his eight seasons and led UMass to the 2006 National Championship and conference titles in back-to-back years (2006-07). During his first stint at UMass (1998-99), Picucci assisted with the offensive line (1998) and coached the interior defensive line (1999). In 1998, he helped coach UMass to the 1998 1-AA National Championship.

Picucci, who coached current Maine offensive coordinator Liam Coen at UMass, began his coaching career at Southern Connecticut State in 1994 before joining the Minutemen in an assistant offensive line role in 1998.

He left UMass in 1999 to take a role as the run game coordinator and offensive line coach at Northeastern. During his years with the Huskies (2000-03), Picucci helped guide Northeastern to its first Atlantic-10 Championship and Division-I AA playoff berth in school history (2002).

Picucci returned to UMass in 2004, where he would mentor 19 All-Conference players and eight All-Americans from 2004-11.

He accepted his first head coaching position in 2013 when he took an interim role at the helm of Central Connecticut State. Picucci was quick to continue his offensive success as his team led the NEC in total offense during his first season while the offensive line, under his guidance, led all of FCS football in fewest sacks allowed (5).

Picucci joined Widener University in 2014, spending a year as its offensive coordinator/offensive line coach. The Pride went 12-1 during his tenure, capturing the MAC Championship and making it to the NCAA D-III quarterfinals and achieving a No. 10 national ranking.

Prior to joining Maine, Picucci guided the offense at Becker College in Leicester, Mass during the 2015 season. Becker, which went 1-9 in 2014, averaged 33.0 points per game under Picucci and finished the year 7-3 while setting 46-school records and leading the league in total offense.

Picucci graduated from Syracuse University with a Bachelor of Science in Education in 1994. While at Syracuse, Picucci earned three varsity letters with the Orange as a fullback/tight end (1989-93) and was a member of four victorious bowl teams (Peach, Aloha, Hall of Fame, Fiesta).

Alvah Hansbro enters his first year at Maine where he will mentor the Black Bear cornerbacks.

Hansbro comes to Maine with nine years of coaching experience, six at the collegiate level. Most recently, Hansbro coached the secondary at Glenville State College in West Virginia from 2012-14. At Glenville, Hansbro mentored the 2013 statistical NCAA leader in passes defended. Also, he aided a trio of two-time all-conference selections and a second team all-american.

From 2009-10, Hansbro instructed the secondary at the University of Dubuque in Iowa. At Dubuque, he guided an all-conference defensive back.

Hansbro was a student coach for the secondary at his alma mater Northern Illinois in 2006 before taking a gig as co-defensive coordinator at Edgewood High School (Wisconsin) in 2009. Edgewood developed eight all-conference players under his leadership.

Hansbro graduated from Northern Illinois University in 2006 with a Bachelor of Arts in Corporate Communication. While at NIU, he was a three-year starter at cornerback and a four-year starter on special teams, earning an all-conference accolade during his playing career.

Josh Heinrich joins the Black Bears after a year stint with Fordham working within football operations, recruiting and video assistance. While at Fordham, Heinrich wore many hats. He maintained and updated recruiting databases, provided visual marketing supplements for recruits, provided practice film and played a key part in recruit visits. Heinrich was also a key component in planning away game travel and updating team roster databases and all other team documents.

Prior to his time at Fordham, Heinrich gained significant experience as an intern at Syracuse where his assisted with recrutiing, film breakdown, player evaluation and recruiting travel.

During his time as a student at the State University of New York at Cortland, Heinrich served three seasons as a quality control coach - video coordinator. As a member of the Red Dragons' staff, he supervised a staff of 10 managers and was directly responsible for all film duties.

Heinrich has one season of professional experience after spending the 2013-14 NFL season on the New York Jets game day operations staff where he assisted with several promotional items and prepared the field conditions for practices.

Heinrich obtained his Bachelor of Science in Sport Management from SUNY Cortland in 2015.

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