Football

Hotchkiss football players are asked to be leaders in all that they do. They are expected to be true student-athletes. Many of our coaches are also teachers, so there is a real connection to the classroom experience. Our football players are smart, competitive kids who want to be challenged. They are encouraged to play different sports while they are here and expected to participate in different school activities.

We are looking for young men who have a passion for the game of football and who relish the opportunity to work with dedicated teammates towards a common goal.

Hotchkiss Football is a "Brotherhood" that lasts well beyond the final whistle.

-- Dempsey Quinn, Head Coach, Varsity Football

Football is the oldest sport at Hotchkiss. We will celebrate our 125th season of football in the fall of 2017. Hotchkiss has a long, illustrious tradition of success on the gridiron. We play a Class A schedule, the highest level of prep school football in New England. As an original member of the prestigious Erickson League, Hotchkiss has won titles in 1983, 1991, 1994, 1995, 1999, 2000, 2002, 2008 and 2009.

The 1991 and 2008 teams were both New England Prep School Champions.

Three Hotchkiss players, Rob Schaeffer ’01, Alex Amidon ’10 and Derrick Wilson ’11 have been named the New England Prep School Football Player of the Year.

The athletic facilities at Hotchkiss are some of the finest in the country. The Mars Athletic Center contains Hixon pool, a spacious ten lane swimming pool, two hockey rinks, eight squash courts, four basketball courts, an indoor track, a wrestling room and the Chandler Fitness Center. We have two lakes on campus, a historic nine-hole golf course and over 100 acres of woods with trails for hiking and biking.

Sprole Field, our football field, is one of the finest football venues in New England. It has a Field Turf surface, the same playing surface that the Colts, Giants and Patriots play on. It also has lights and a heated locker room complex with showers, restrooms and a training room.

Scott Brisson ’02 was named Offensive Coordinator at Lehigh University, the 2016 Patriot League champions.

Alex Amidon ’10 was the 2014 recipient of the Thomas Scanlan Award at Boston College, the school’s highest football honor. He finished his standout career as the school’s all-time leader in career receptions and total receiving yards.

Mark Powell '11 is a Graduate Assistant coach at Marshall University. A former linebacker at Lafayette College, he has also coached recently at Yale and Villanova.

Nick Alfieri '11 is playing professionally with the Schwabisch Hall Unicorns of the German Football League. He had a standout college career at Georgetown University.

Other notable alumni:
David Burris '03 -- Massachusetts
Dylan Brix '03 -- Bowdoin
Xang Chareunsab '03 -- Texas
Ben Buskey '04 -- St. Lawrence
Nick Rockwell '04 -- Hamilton
Robert Bracho '04 -- St. Lawrence
Lucas Loeffler '06 -- Amherst
Randy Wright '06 -- Elmhurst
John Anderson '07 -- Brown
Patrick Ruwe '07 -- Yale
Brian Pomper '08 -- Virginia
Clark Maturo '08 -- Bucknell
Geoff Ogunlesi '08 -- Amherst
Riley McCracken '08 -- Kenyon
Kadeem Rodgers '09 -- Union
Ryan Veillette '09 -- Colby
Casey Muse '10 -- Union
Teddy MacKenzie '10 -- Bucknell
Joseph Ballard '13 -- Rice
Marty Moesta '13 -- Yale
P.J. Dorsey '13 -- Trinity
Tom Gregory '13 -- Tufts
Adam Regensburg '14 -- Williams
Jake Cronin '14 -- Wesleyan
Jason Mitchner '14 -- Wesleyan
Matt Cardew '14 -- Middlebury
Matt Frater '14 -- Hobart & William Smith
Nick Abrahms '14 -- Rhodes
Amir Parker '15 -- Bowdoin
Austin Collins '15 -- Middlebury
Court Mangum '15 -- Pitzer College
John Martisch '15 -- Hamilton
Abraham Asante '16 -- Pitzer
John Galusha '16 -- Bowdoin
Patrick Sopko '16 -- Colby
Tylor Scales '16 -- Tufts
Kyle Davis '17 -- Pitzer
Kyle Hamper '17 -- New Hampshire
Thunder Keck '17 -- Stanford
Weston Porter '17 -- Lake Forest
Daekwon Blair '18 -- Howard
DJ Bourque '18 -- Union
Dylan Brown '18 -- Rhode Island
Josh McCarthy '18 -- Colby
Nate Faison '18 -- Wagner
Ryan Lopez '18 -- Stony Brook
Shaun Kirby '18 -- St. Lawrence
Cameron Borges '19 -- Springfield College
Chase Mangini '19 -- Tufts
Kyle Smith '19 -- Lehigh
Mason von Jess '19 -- Wesleyan
Thomas Lewis '19 -- Lehigh
Michael Bright '20 -- Bucknell
Lucas Mastrodomenico '20 -- British Columbia
Scott Rosati '20 -- Columbia
Anthony Zaccareo '21 -- Amherst
Braden Barlow '21 -- MIT
Ethan Vashel '21 -- Middlebury
Luke Stennett '21 -- Union
Ruben Valenzuela '21 -- Yale
Brandon Ciccarello '22 -- McGill
Henry Emswiler '22 -- Colby
Nick Williams '22 -- Lehigh