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WESLEYAN FOOTBALL FRIENDS OF July, 2007 " Freeman Athletic Center " Wesleyan University " Middletown, CT 06459 Dear Alumni, Parents and Friends of Wesleyan Football, Hello from Wesleyan University. I hope all is well with you as we move full swing into the summer months and the Anal planning phase of the 2007-08 academic year. The purpose of this newsletter is to provide information about the Wesleyan Football Program while also touching on some ways in which I think alumni, parents and friends of Wes- leyan Football can help improve the program.

Topics included in this newsletter are recruiting, the Cardinal Club, a note from our captains for the 2007 season and fundraising for football. Although the 2006 season was not up to the level we had hoped for, our players worked extremely hard and made marked improvements over the previous season. It was a wonderful group to work with and their efforts were greatly appreciated by the coaching staff.

Our captains (Corey Baker, Phil Banks and Jeff McLaren) provided outstanding leadership throughout the season and were instrumental in improving the squad. With a number of freshmen and sophomores seeing signiAcant playing time, it was important that our seniors become leaders and ... more. less.

all 13 of them responded. At our awards day (sponsored by the Cardinal Club), Don Lowery '77 was the featured guest speaker. Don spoke to the team and their parents about his experiences with the New England Patriots and was extremely well-received by the group. Award winners included: " 1st team All-NESCAC - Quincy Francis '06, LB " 2nd team All-NESCAC - Joe Pepe '07, DB ; Ryan Walsh '09, WR " NESCAC All-Academic Team - Zach Librizzi '08, QB ; Tim O'Callaghan '08, LB ; Joe Pepe '07, DB ; Pat Senat '08, OLB " Cardinal Club Scholar-Athlete Award - Corey Baker '07 & Joe Pepe '07 " Offensive Player of the Year - Phil Banks '07 " Defensive Player of the Year - Quincy Francis '06 " Special Teams Player of the Year - A.J. Taucher '08 " Thomas Eck Award - Corey Baker '07 " C. Everett Bacon Award - Quincy Francis '06 " Christopher Luke Yohan Award - Jeff McLaren '06 We also named captains for the 2007 season: Tom Addonizio '07 (Delbarton School, N.J.), Zach Librizzi (Essex HS, Vt.) and Tim O'Callaghan (West Babylon HS, N.Y.) I have great conA - dence in each of these three young men as they lead us into the 2007 season. Our players are dedicated student-athletes, working dili- gently in the classroom and on the Aeld. They are currently doing a great job following up their spring off-season training with a summer workout routine in preparation for the upcoming cam- paign. The players and coaching staff are excited about the fall and look forward to a great season. The 2007 schedule is printed in this newsletter and we hope that you will be able to see us play in the fall. Sincerely, Frank Hauser 879, Head Football Coach 860-685-2908 fhauser@wesleyan.edu #70, Co- rey Baker '07, Thomas Eck Award winner and Cardinal Club Scholar- Athlete Award winner #7, Ryan Walsh '09, 2nd-team all- NESCAC #5, Quincy Francis '06, 1st-team all-NE- SCAC, Defensive Player of the Year and C. Everett Ba- con Award winner #3, Joe Pepe '07, 2nd-team all-NE- SCAC, academic all-NES- CAC and Cardinal Club Scholar- Athlete Award winner Phone Conversations with Student-Athletes : An extremely valu- able tool for us in recruiting is a call to a player by a Wesleyan alumnus. We have always asked football alums to call recruits in whom we have a strong interest and it has been very helpful in yielding those who have been admitted. Prospective players are often positively inBuenced by the accomplishments of our football alumni. In general, we wait until we are sure that a recruit is a good player and has a good chance to be admitted to Wesleyan before asking an alumnus to call. We also try to match alumni with the interests of the players. For example, when a recruit is interested in medicine, we usually ask an alumnus in that Aeld to contact him. If you would be willing to contact players for us next year, please send me an email (fhauser@wesleyan.edu) including your major at Wes- leyan and your occupation or Aeld of expertise. You can also call me at 860-685-2908. Contacts with Local High School Coaches : Alumni and friends of the program can contact high school coaches to ask about players who may be academically and athletically qualiAed for Wesleyan. When doing so, alumni and friends are subject to the same NESCAC and NCAA rules to which Wesleyan coaches are subject. Some limitations include: not being allowed to go to the school to talk with the coach or player; not being al- lowed to go to the home of the coach or player; and not being allowed to set up a meeting at another location with the coach or player. We are able to call the coach and ask him to recommend players to us; thus, alumni and friends can do the same. When speaking with a coach, the key information we would like to have is the player 9s name, school and if possible, his home phone number. As stated above, we can get the rest of the information by talking to the coach and/or the player. 2007 POTENTIAL NEWCOMERS TO WESLEYAN FOOTBALL Name, Class Pos. Ht./Wt. Hometown/Secondary School Bo Brown '10 LB 5-11/205 BloomAeld, CT/Kingswood-Oxford School Zachary Carman '11 OL 6-0/260 North Falmouth, MA/Falmouth HS Adrian Chan '11 DT 6-0/220 Danville, CA/Trinity-Pawling School (NY) Ryan Coffey '11 DT 6-2/240 Pascoag, RI/Burrillville HS Mike D'Amico '11 WR 6-3/200 Branford, CT/Branford HS Eric Eckhard '11 TE 6-1/210 East Brunswick, NJ/East Brunswick HS Sean Foley '10 LB 5-9/185 TenaBy, NJ/TenaBy HS Justin Freres '11 DB 6-1/190 Santa Barbara, CA/San Marcos HS Joseph Giaimo '11 QB 6-2/180 Gillette, NJ/Watchung Hills HS Steven Hauser '11 WR 6-0/160 Harrisville, RI/Burrillville HS Dan Henry '11 DT 6-1/250 Northboro, MA/Algonquin HS Daniel Hulyk '11 LB 5-10/220 Milford, MA/Milford HS Matthew Maloney '11 OLB 6-3.205 Yarmouthport, MA/Boston College HS Francis Melendez '11 RB 5-8/175 North Haven, CT/North Haven HS Peter Modera '11 RB 5-10/180 Piedmont, CA/Piedmont HS Tim Morley '11 LB 6-2/200 Costa Mesa, CA/Estancia HS Teddy Newmy '11 LB 5-11/180 Los Angeles, CA/Brentwood School Harley Parker '11 OL 6-4/265 PaciAc Palisades, CA/ Harvard-Westlake School Maciej Radkowski '11 LB 6-0/225 Woodhaven, NY/Lawrenceville School (NJ) Cavar Reid '11 DT 6-3/240 Bronx, NY/Mt. St. Michael HS Garrett Rodgers '11 OL 6-0/250 Nipomo, CA/Nipomo HS Michael Ruderman '11 WR 5-9/160 Phoenix, AZ/Chapparal HS Zach Sadler '11 OL 6-1/230 Trumbull, CT/St. Joseph's HS Adam Schwartz '11 DT 6-3/230 Boca Raton, FL/St. Andrew's HS Nicholas Seara '11 OL 6-1/230 South Ozone Park, NY/St. Francis Prep Jared Smith '11 RB 5-10/185 Pompton Plains, NJ/Pequannock HS Bryan Stanley '11 WR 6-2/180 Woburn, MA/Arlington Catholic HS Jamaal Taylor '11 OLB 6-1/210 Cambria Heights, NY/Dalton School NOTE - This is a list of potential players for the 2007 football squad from the incoming freshman class and list of transfer students as identiAed by their interest in playing for the team. Being listed here in no way binds a candidate to the team. Note from the 2007 Football Captains The Wesleyan football team has a commitment to success and with that comes hard work and a common goal to win. Everyone on the team knows that we are capable of many more victories and realizes that this can happen with more work, especially in the off-season. This winter and throughout the spring the entire team was dedicated to Wesleyan football's lifting and conditioning programs. Every player displayed the commitment, work ethic and determina- tion to improve themselves not only individually but as a dedicated Wesleyan teammate. This is crucial in becoming one of the elite teams in this NESCAC conference. The program has many talented starters returning from both the offensive and defensive sides of the ball and young talent that is eager to step up and make an immediate impact. The team is looking to improve on its record from last year in pursuit of victories over Amherst and Williams for the Little Three Championship and the NESCAC title. We are excited for the upcoming 2007 season fall and look forward to your support throughout the year. Tom Addonizio '08 2007 Tri-Captain Zach Librizzi '08 2007 Tri-Captain Tim O'Callaghan '08 2007 Tri-Captain Alumni Help in Recruiting As recruiting of the Wesleyan class of 2011 has concluded, I would like to thank the many alumni who helped in recruiting this year 9s fresh- man football class. This help included referring potential student-athletes to our football staff, phone conversations with student-athletes regarding the University and contacts with local high school coaches about prospects. These are indispensable parts of recruiting at a school like Wesleyan. Since many people ask what they can do to help the recruiting effort at Wesleyan, I would like to explain how alumni and friends of the program are able to help. Referring potential student-athletes : One of the most difAcult parts of recruiting is identifying quality student-athletes. As a coaching staff, we try to contact as many high school coaches as possible asking them to refer good football players who are also strong students. Due to the vast number of high schools with football programs, we are unable to contact all coaches by phone. Additionally, many of our mailings to coaches go unanswered. This is an area where alumni and friends can help a great deal. If you see or hear about a good football player in your area, please let us know about him. Even just his name and high school is enough to get us started. You may not know how strong he is as a student, but we can And that out quickly by talking to his coach. If you have more information about him (e.g. phone number, position, size, etc.), that is great, but we can begin the process with just his name and school. Timing is the most important thing when referring players. Ideally we would like to hear about a player in the spring of his junior year or earlier, but we have time to start recruit- ing new players through mid-December of their senior year. The earlier we hear about a player, the better chance we have to get him interested in Wesleyan. Once a player is recommended to us, we will contact him or his coach very quickly. After determining if he is in our academic range and seeing video of his football performance, we will decide if he is a viable candidate for us to recruit. We will invite him to visit campus. Some of our best players in recent years have been referred to us by alumni, including Matt Perceval 800 (team captain, Arst-team All-Ameri - ca and three-time all-NESCAC wide receiver from South Dakota), Dion Mueller 901 (team captain and all-NESCAC linebacker from Colorado) and Brennan Carney 904 (team captain and four-year starter at quarterback from Vermont). There have been many others as well and it is likely that we would not have found out about these players if not for these referrals. Donation Form - Gifts Made Directly to Wesleyan All donations are tax-deductible. Please note that these dollars do not count toward the unrestricted "Wesleyan Fund" or your class totals, but you will be counted as a "participant" in Wesleyan's current fundraising campaign. We hope you will also support the Wesleyan Fund each year. Thanks for all your support! Name ______________________________________________ Year of graduation _______________ or Parent / Friend Address ___________________________________________ ___________________________________________________ Phone _________________________________________ e-mail Address ______________________________________ Please make checks payable to "Wesleyan University" and put "Donation to Football" in the memo area. Send to: Wesleyan Football, Freeman Athletic Center, Middletown, CT 06459 To make your gift online, go to: give@wesleyan.edu. Be sure to include "Football Team" in the Comment area. For Donations to the Cardinal Club - Please make checks payable to "The Cardinal Club, Inc." and send to: David Bagatelle '86, Chairman The Cardinal Club, Inc. 52 Walsh Drive, Mahwah, NJ 07430 A Message from the Coach and the Cardinal Club Dear Friends of Wesleyan Football, We are excited about the prospects for Wesleyan football in both the short and long term. As you are well aware NESCAC has become an incredibly competitive league in all sports, but particularly football. We know there is still a good distance between us, Williams and Trinity, but are conAdent we are closing the gap. As last year 9s results show, we feel we can play with anyone else right now. An important factor as we work towards this goal is gaining additional Anancial support for the football team. The University is very generous to football, and all the athletic teams. However, additional funds can help make a real difference. Contributions via the Cardinal Club and directly to the school have played a crit- ical role in helping to fund many projects/items over the years such as the year-end banquet, the scholar-athlete award, and helping with recruiting expenses including paying part-time coaches additional money to help make off-season phone calls. A few generous alums also have helped fund the football coaching internship, which has become a model that many other NESCAC schools have adopted. We also worked with Athletics Director John Biddiscombe and Vice President for Aca- demic Affairs Peter Patton to enhance the full-time football coaching staff. Last year we were very fortunate to bring on two new full-time coaches, one a replacement for a departed coach, the other in a new position. Keith Hellstern 898 and Doug Mandigo have done a great job, as running backs coach and defensive coordinator, respectively. They also have taken our recruiting process to a new level. We feel that this year 9s recruiting class is the best we have seen in sometime. We and some other alumni supporters feel that there is great potential for more Anancial assistance, and we seek your help. The Cardinal Club continues to seek your support, but you now have the option of giving directly to the football program through the University. Many alums, parents and friends have expressed interest in giving this way, in order to get fundraising credit from Wesleyan. We agree that it is not important which fund you support, the key is making both options available. We are conAdent that this will result in more support for the program. In fact, with the support of a handful of generous donors who stepped forward, we received direct donations totalling about $20,000 during the Wesleyan 2006-07 fund year, which ended on June 30. Along with the Cardinal Club donations this gives us a big boost as we head into the season, and we hope to build on this during the 2007-08 year. Details for making your donation can be found above, and don 9t hesitate to con- tact one of us if you have further questions. Again, we feel great about the future of Wesleyan football and look forward to achieving our goal of bringing a Little Three Championship home to Wesleyan. Sincerely, Frank Hauser 879 Dave Bagatelle 886 Head Football Coach Chairman, The Cardinal Club, Inc. fhauser@wesleyan.edu dbagatelle@mac.com (860) 685-2908 (646) 408-1032 2007 UPPERCLASS RETURNEES/CANDIDATES Name Class Pos. Ht./Wt. Hometown/Secondary School Tom Addonizio Sr. DT 6-0/255 Florham Park, NJ/Delbarton School Kwasi Ansu Jr. DB 6-1/190 Bethesda, MD/Landon School David Brustein So. LB 6-0/215 Los Angeles, CA/Beverly Hills HS Joseph Chadwick So. DB 6-0/185 Lincoln, RI/Lincoln HS Tyler Chapin Jr. QB 6-0/175 Brattleboro, VT/Brattleboro HS Yu Chen So. DE 6-0/190 Wellesley, MA/Wellesley HS Steve Cohen Sr. OL 6-2/290 Croton-on-Hudson, NY/Croton-Harmon HS Vince Colangelo Jr. LB 5-10/205 Alendale, NJ/Northern Highlands Reg. HS Dan Collins Sr. DE 6-1/220 Shrewsbury, MA/Shrewsbury HS Robert Cook So. OLB 6-3/190 TenaBy, NJ/TenaBy HS Michael Defranco So. DB 6-0/175 Great Falls, VA/Landon School Andrew DePalma So. DT 6-1/245 Ellicott City, MD/Mt. St. Joseph HS Drew Dominguez Jr. DB 5-11/175 Braintree, MA/Braintree HS Ryan Dugan So. QB 6-1/185 Dudley, MA/Shepherd Hill HS David Dwyer So. RB 5-11/185 Marlborough, CT/Xavier HS Andrew Erlagen So OL 6-3/235 Huntington, NY/John Glenn HS Mike Ferris Jr. TE 6-1/220 Orange, CT/Amity Regional HS Andrew Fiola Jr. DB 5-9/180 Hampden, MA/Minnechaug Reg. HS Anastasios Fotinos So. RB 5-7/170 Manasquan, NJ/Red Bank Catholic HS Ben Gascoigne So. RB 5-10/190 Moreland Hills, OH/University School Dominic Gibson So. OLB 5-10/190 Bedford, MA/Bedford HS Danny Granatell So. WR 5-9/170 Franklin Lakes, NJ/Ramapo HS Seth Gregory So. TE 6-1/225 Charleston, WV/Jefferson HS Kyle Harrington So. TE 6-3/230 Binghamton, NY/Binghamton HS Chris Helsel Jr. WR/K 6-0/185 Ridgewood, NJ/Ridgewood HS Evan Huggins So. OLB 6-1/195 West Haven, CT/Hopkins School Lane Kirshe So. RB 5-8/175 Franklin, MA/Franklin HS Kevin Leamy Jr. RB 5-9/195 Westville, NJ/Gateway Regional HS Marcus Lefkandinos So. OL 6-3/250 River Edge, NJ/River Dell HS Zach Librizzi Sr. QB 6-2/205 Essex Junction, VT/Essex HS Matt Maroldi So. OL 6-3/245 BergenAeld, NJ/BergenAeld HS Anthony Marsella So. DB 5-11/195 Woonsocket, RI/Woonsocket HS Kyle MacDonald So. DB 5-10/185 BloomAeld, CT/Kingswood-Oxford School Ryan McLaren Sr. OLB 5-7200 Essex Junction, VT/Essex HS Ben Morris So. DT 6-3/220 MarshAeld, MA/Boston College HS Matt Nagatori So. DE 6-2/200 Dedham, MA/St. Sebastian's CDS Mark Noonan Sr. WR 6-0/195 Ardmore, PA/St. Joseph 9s Prep Tim O 9Callaghan Sr. LB 6-0/200 Babylon, NY/West Babylon HS Pete Overman So. OLB 6-1/190 Seattle, WA/Lakeside School Ian Pearson So. WR 5-11/180 Brooklyn, NY/Poly Prep CDS Ethan Pickett Jr. RB 5-9/190 Mahwah, NJ/St. Joseph Regional HS Spencer Platt So. DB 5-8/160 Centervile, MA/Milton Academy Billy Pryor Sr. WR 6-1/175 Port Jefferson Sta., NY/Comsewogue HS Charlie Riether Jr. DT 6-0/255 North Haven, CT/North Haven HS Zac Rosensohn So. LB 5-11/210 Essex, CT/Valley Regional HS Bobby Rosenthal So. OL 6-0/255 Westport, CT/Staples HS David Sears Jr. RB 6-0/225 BrimAeld, MA/St. Sebastian's CDS Pat Senat Sr. OLB 6-2/185 Brooklyn, NY/James Madison HS George Smalanskas Jr. OLB 6-0/185 Shrewsbury, MA/Shrewsbury HS Scott Stanko So. DB 5-9/160 Clark, CO/Steamboat Springs HS Peter Sugarbaker So. DT 6-2/205 Milton, MA/Thayer Academy Basil Swaby So. DB 5-10/170 Bardonia, NY/Miton (MA) Academy Jesse Taft Jr. OL 6-0/295 Windsor, VT/Windsor HS Pearce Talbot Jr. LB 5-8/215 Summit, NJ/Summit HS AJ Taucher Sr. PK/P 6-1/185 Long Beach, CA/Woodrow Wilson HS Brett Valentine Jr. OL 6-0/270 Bristol, CT/Bristol Eastern HS Ryan Walsh Jr. WR 5-10/160 Milton, MA/Milton Academy Matt Ward So. DB 5-9/180 Boxford, MA/Phillips Academy Tyler Whitley Sr. DB 6-0/190 Torrington, CT/Taft School Field Yates Jr. DB 5-10/190 Weston, MA/Belmont Hill School Alex Zedlovich Jr. OL 6-1/255 Whitestone, NY/Stuyvesant HS 2007 FOOTBALL SCHEDULE Sept. 22 (Sat.) Middlebury HOME 1:00 29 (Sat.) Hamilton Away 12:30 Oct. 6 (Sat.) Colby HOME 1:00 13 (Sat.) Bates HOME 1:00 20 (Sat.) Amherst Away 1:00 27 (Sat.) Bowdoin Away 12:30 Nov. 3 (Sat.) Williams* HOME 1:00 10 (Sat.) Trinity Away 12:00 *Homecoming & Family Weekend Friends of Wesleyan Football Freeman Athletic Center Wesleyan University Middletown, CT 06459 Long-time Wesleyan coach Norm "Danny" Daniels (seated far left with "thumbs-up") celebrated his 100th birth- day March 25, 2007. To honor Norm, who spent 39 years at Wesleyan (1934-1973) while serving as head coach of 9ve differ - ent teams during his tenure including 17 seasons with football (a 76-61-10 record from 1943 through 1963 with a team-record 28-game unbeaten streak during the late- 1940s), Wesleyan held a reception at the Freeman Athletic Center April 5. At that time, Vice-President for University Rela- tions Barbara-Jan Wilson (holding sign) announced the naming of the bridge lobby of the building as Coach Norm Daniels Lobby. Also holding the sign and offering the mark of "victory" is alumni director and former Wesleyan football quarterback John Driscoll '62. The Friends of Wesleyan University Football 15th Annual Kickoff Reception with Coach Frank Hauser '79 will be held Tuesday, Sept. 4, 2007 from 6-8 p.m. at the Yale Club, 50 Vanderbilt Avenue (between East 44th and 45th) in New York City. Dave Thomas '77, Cardinal Club Board of Directors member, will be the host. Please RSVP to Beth Watrous at (860) 685-3271 or ewatrous@wesleyan.edu by Friday, Aug. 31. Please note the date of this reception is Tuesday, Sept 4, not the 9rst Monday after Labor Day as has been the case in previous years.

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