Michael Cibene

Biography

Michael Cibene joined the Badgers as Assistant Special Teams Coordinator in February 2025. Cibene joined the Badgers after serving as the Edge Coach at Florida Atlantic during the 2024 season. Cibene joined the FAU staff in 2023 as a defensive analyst and was named Edge Coach prior to the 2024 season. Before his time in Boca Raton, Fla., Cibene worked with the defensive line as a graduate assistant at Boston College during the 2021 and 2022 seasons. He joined the Boston College staff after two seasons working as a defensive assistant at Ohio State (2019 and 2020). Cibene’s first coaching position was under Badgers’ Outside Linebackers Coach Matt Mitchell at Grand Valley State. Cibene was a graduate assistant on Mitchell’s staff in 2017 and 2018. Cibene worked directly with GVSU’s linebackers and defensive backs. During his playing career, Cibene was a safety at Ohio State from 2013-16 and was part of the 2014 Big Ten and CFP championship team. He was a four-time Scholar Athlete Award winner and was named a 2016 Varsity O Letterman. Cibene graduated from Ohio State in 2017 and earned a pair of master’s degrees from Grand Valley State (2019) and Boston College (2022). Cibene and his wife, Olivia, are expecting twin girls, Lucia and Sofia.