BALTIMORE, MD – Dan Wodicka, the James F. Margraff Head Coach of Football at Johns Hopkins, announced the appointment of Joe Costadina as the Blue Jay wide receivers coach today.  Costadina comes to Johns Hopkins from the University of Pennsylvania and will work under offensive coordinator Alex Horvatits.

Costadina spent the 2023 season at Penn as the Offensive Quality Control Coach and worked closely with the Quaker offensive line.  He worked under the direction of the offensive line coach at Penn on all aspects of game and practice planning and player development.  He also created and managed all opponent scouting reports and was actively involved with Penn's national recruiting efforts.  In his one season at Penn, he helped the Quakers to a 6-4 record.

Costadina's one-year stint at Penn followed him working as the Offensive Quality Control Coach at the University at Albany during the 2022 season.  At Albany, his efforts were focused on wide receivers and he was actively involved in all facets of the offense, including the development of game plans, on-field in-game coaching of his position group and the development of scouting reports.

A 2021 graduate of Rowan University, Costadina got his coaching start at his alma mater, where he spent five seasons as a student assistant on the coaching staff.  He progressively gained increased responsibility on the Prof staff, spending two years as an undergraduate as the assistant wide receivers coach and one year as the running backs coach.  As the running backs coach in 2021, he mentored a First Team All-New Jersey Athletic Conference selection and the Rowan rushing attack generated nearly 170 years per game.

Costadina graduated from Rowan in 2021 with a degree in finance.  He joins a Johns Hopkins offense that averaged nearly 41 points and more than 470 yards per game.  The Blue Jays will return three of their top four pass-catchers from last season, including rising sophomore Cole Crotty, who led the team in receiving with 75 receptions for 1,053 yards and nine touchdowns as a freshman in 2023.

Johns Hopkins is scheduled to open the 2024 season, its first under Wodicka, on September 7 when the Blue Jays travel to Ithaca.