Coach Mike Famiglietti joined the Minot State football staff in the summer of 2022 and is the team's running backs coach, special teams coordinator, and recruiting coordinator. He spent his first season with the Beavers as the teams' wide receivers coach and special teams coordinator.
A finalist for the Footballscoop Assistant Coach of The Year award in 2020-21, Coach "Fam" spent the previous two seasons as a top assistant coach at Kansas Wesleyan helping guide the Coyotes to the Kansas Collegiate Athletic Conference title and an NAIA national quarterfinal game in the fall of 2021. In his two seasons in Salina, Kansas, he was offensive coordinator, tight ends and fullbacks coach, and special teams coach. He also served as the head of recruiting for the last year and was the women’s flag football head coach, as well.
Prior to his time in Kansas, Famiglietti spent two seasons in the NSIC with Northern State as an assistant where he was the associate recruiting coordinator for the Wolves and a specialists and running backs coach.
Famiglietti spent two seasons as special teams and running backs coach at Wisconsin Lutheran College prior to his time in Aberdeen and built a connection with North Dakota as he was an assistant at the University of North Dakota in Grand Forks for a year, working with the offense, as a recruiting assistant, and as video coordinator.
The time at UND was not his only experience with NCAA Division I football, though, as Famiglietti started his playing career as the starting long snapper as a true freshman at FBS Western Michigan, then transferred to FCS Western Illinois where he spent three more seasons as a starter at long snapper for the Leathernecks and was twice named to the Missouri Valley Football Conference Academic Honor Roll.
He graduated from Western Illinois with a bachelor’s degree in Chemistry-Biochemistry with minors in Spanish and Microbiology and earned his master's from Wisconsin Lutheran in Education.
Along with his time on the college sidelines, he has also served on the AFCA Professional Development Series Committee and is on the Division 2 Football Assistant Coaches committee and been an invited guest coach at the University of Minnesota, University of Wisconsin, Western Illinois, and Western Michigan football camps.
In May of 2023, Coach Famiglietti tied the knot, marrying Kate Famiglietti who works in enrollment services at Minot State.
