
Coach Costello has spent the past eleven years in the trenches playing and coaching the offensive line.
Costello played collegiality for Bemidji State (Minn.) from 1995 until a career-ending injury ended his playing days in 1998.
He then moved to the coaching side of football serving as student-assistant offensive line coach at Bemidji the next two years.
In the 2000 season, Costello was named offensive line coach at Univ. of Wisconsin-Oshkosh.
Returning back to Bemidji to complete his graduate work, Costello served as the team’s running backs coach and handled recruiting duties both on and off campus.
After graduating with his masters degree, Costello moved to Dana College (Neb.) and was the team’s offensive line coach, run game coordinator and the school’s strength and conditioning coordinator.
In 2005, Costello moved to Culver-Stockton (Mo.) where he was the Wildcats offensive coordinator for two years.
Just prior to coming to Truman, Costello spent the first few months of 2007 at Lindenwood (Mo.) University as the team’s offensive line coach.