The Hobart Statesmen will welcome a class of 29 FY student athletes in this fall’s camp. As usual the majority (15) hail from New York State and the Northeast (11 including five from MA, two from PA, and one each from CT, NJ, VT and ME, respectively). For the second year in a row Hobart will have student athletes from the Sunshine State (two). The one first for this year’s team is that the Statesmen have enrolled their only Virginian (football playing anyway), albeit by way of a PG year at Northfield Mount Hermon (MA). I had posted a few of these earlier in the year including:
FB Dominque Ellis
RB Alex Delany
FB Scott McMorris
SS Matt McGriff
OL Ali Marpet
OL Matt Riggi
DE Tyre Coleman
DT Troy Jackson
I obviously missed many others, but news on DIII “signings” are few and far between. It also appears as though Adam Novak and Tucker Randle either didn’t decide to enroll or opted out of playing football. Brian Kessler is apparently sticking with lacrosse too.
That said a few names that stand out include the aforementioned – Coleman in particular given the Statesmen’s needs at DE – but also several others, namely:
QB Patrick Conlan, son of Penn State and Buffalo Bills linebacker, Shane Conlan
CB Fairi Jackson (Fayetteville, NY PG’d at Kent School)
OL DeAndre’ Smith (from Corcoran who’s 6’3” and 340 lbs - Alex Bell ’05 anyone?!?!?)
DT Raimonn Goddard (from Middletown and comes in at 6’ 3” 280 lbs – that’s “Ryan Aruck ’09 big”).
Of course only time will time how many of these players will make an impact over their Hobart careers. Although this is a ballpark figure, usually about half of a given class will stay on the team all four years. For example, the Class of 2012 had 33 begin with the program in the fall of 2008. This fall 17 of those original 33 (51%) will suit up.
The full Statesmen preseason roster can be found at this link:
http://www.hwsathletics.com/roster.aspx?path=football
I’ll be back in about a week to review the 2011 season. Thanks for reading and go ‘Bart!
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