GETTYSBURG, Pa. – Four new assistant football coaches will aid 32nd-year Head Coach Barry Streeter in 2010.

Joe Conner, Tim Hibbs, Andrew Smith, and Bob Witt will complete Streeter's 10-man staff.

Conner, who will work with the defensive backs, provides the Bullets with a highly-experienced coach after working at various levels for nearly 25 years. Most recently, he was the head football coach at Urbana (Md.) High School in 2009, leading the Hawks to an 8-3 record and a league playoff berth. Prior to his stint as head coach, Conner was Urbana's defensive coordinator from 2005-08 and helped the team win three Chesapeake Conference championships from 2005-07.

From 1999-2003, Conner worked as the head coach of the Washington Chiefs, a member of the Minor Football League (MFL). In 1998, he helped the Chiefs win a MFL title as the team's general manager, assistant head coach, and defensive coordinator. He has also made coaching stops at Walter Johnson (Md.) High School, Towson University, Montgomery College, Good Counsel (Md.) High School, and St. Mary's Prep School.

Conner has also been a highly-successful lacrosse coach and helped lead the Urbana boys team to a No. 2 state ranking. He was the Frederick County Lacrosse Coach of the Year three times from 2006-08.

As a football player, Conner was a minor league quarterback for the Prince Georges Stallions in 1992-93 and the Metro Bulls from 1988-91. Away from the coaching world, he served as an officer for the Metropolitan Police Department in Washington, D.C. from 1990-2006.

Hibbs returns for his third stint at Gettysburg after a highly-successful six-year run as a high school head coach, first at Biglerville from 2004-08, then at William Penn (York) in 2009. At Biglerville, he led the Canners to a 7-4 mark and a share of the YAIAA III division championship in 2008. Also during that season, Hibbs guided Biglerville to its first PIAA District III Class AA playoff berth in school history and its first conference championship since 1971. He was named the York/Adams Football Coaches Association and Evening Sun Coach of the Year in both 2007 and 2008 as well as the Gettysburg Times Coach of the Year in 2008.

Hibbs, who led William Penn to a district playoff berth in 2009, previously coached at Gettysburg in 2003 (offensive line) and from 1997-99 (linebackers), serving as defensive coordinator in 1999.

From 2000-01, Hibbs spent two years at Ohio Northern University, where he helped the Polar Bears to a combined 17-5 record while reaching the second round of the NCAA Division III tournament in 2000. A 1993 graduate of Temple University, he played defensive line for the Owls and helped coach that group as a senior. He also worked at Fort Scott (Kan.) Community College, where he coached two players who went on to reach the NFL.

Smith, who will coach the defensive line, graduated from Centennial Conference member McDaniel College in 2005 and has spent the past five years as an assistant football coach at various levels. In 2008-09, he spent two years as the offensive and defensive line coach at Washington (Md.) High School.

In 2005-06, Smith worked at Bowling Brook (Md.) Preparatory School, where he was the offensive line coach in 2005 and the offensive coordinator in 2006. He helped the offensive line to its first 1,000-yard rusher in school history in 2005.

At McDaniel, Smith earned a spot on the All-Centennial Conference Second Team as an offensive lineman after helping the Green Terror finish 6-4 (4-2 CC), win a share of the conference title, and lead the league in rushing (232.0 ypg). He earned a degree in psychology at McDaniel and was a member of Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity.

Witt, the team's wide receivers coach, owns over 15 years of coaching experience at a variety of sports and ages. For eight years, he served as an assistant football coach at his high school alma mater, Fairview (Ohio), working as a position coach for receivers, defensive backs, and punters, as well as the special teams coordinator.

A former Division III student-athlete, Witt graduated from Heidelberg College in Tiffin, Ohio in 1985, earning four varsity letters in football as a punter and wide receiver. He graduated with a degree in health and physical education. In high school, he was a three-sport athlete for Fairview, playing football, basketball, and baseball, and was his school's most outstanding athlete as a senior.

Gettysburg opens its 2010 season Sept. 4, when it visits Lebanon Valley College in a non-conference tilt. The team's home and Centennial Conference opener is scheduled for Sept. 18 against Johns Hopkins University.