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TUFTS ALUMNUS SHANE WALDRON NAMED TIGHT ENDS COACH OF NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS

MEDFORD -- According to the New England Patriots official website, 2002 Tufts University graduate Shane Waldron has been named tight ends for the New England Patriots of the National Football League.

Waldron, originally from Portland, Oregon, was a member of Coach Bill Samko's Tufts football teams from 1998-2001. He was a defensive end early in his Jumbo career and moved to tight end for his junior and senior seasons. Waldron was also the team's long snapper on special teams.

The Patriots website writes that Waldron will enter his second season as a member of the Patriots coaching staff and his fifth season with the organization in 2009. He spent the 2008 season as an offensive coaching assistant for New England. He previously spent three seasons with the Patriots as a football operations intern and a football operations assistant from 2002-04.

Waldron re-joined the Patriots in 2008 after spending three seasons as an offensive graduate assistant at the University of Notre Dame (2005-07) on head coach Charlie Weis' staff. While with the Fighting Irish, Waldron worked closely with the offensive line.

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