After taking a long, long, long time to make a decision and turning down a few nice offers in I-AA(Brown, Holy Cross, Dayton) Brandon Brown from Covington Catholic has chosen to continue his football days at Washington University in St. Louis

 

Stick and Brandon - back together! Great to hear. He'll love STL.

Congrats to Dane Spoekler (Centre), Kyle Flynn (Georgetown), Nick Petrino (Georgetown) of Trinity on their college choices....it was fun watching you guys play over the last four years. Additonally congratulations to Nick Hobbs (Centre) and Nick Melillo (Lindenwood University) two more solid contributors to the Rocks Football program! Best of luck and continued success in your college careers! My apologies if I missed anyone else......

T/T/T

Trinity Fighting Five member Reid Hall is on his way to Wittenburg I hear. That is a nice catch for a school with great football (not to mention the book end of things!) tradition. GOOD LUCK REID!

Silly question, but do D3 schools give scholarships? What about NAIA?

Silly question, but do D3 schools give scholarships? What about NAIA?

 

D3's don't give athletic scholarships. NAIA I believe do.

No and yes :thumb:

T/T/T

T/T/T

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Greetings from Centre!

 

There have been a lot of exciting things going on around Centre Football recently, first of which is the finishing up of the recruiting year. We are excited about this year's recruiting class. This by far may be the most talented class since 1998. We have 31 recruits entering into our pre-season in August. Three of our freshmen represented Kentucky this year in the annual Tennessee Kentucky All-star game, and numerous players played in state championships. Four states are represented in this class, with Kentucky having the most representatives. Below is our 2011 class of recruits. If you know any of these freshmen or their families, please drop them a line and welcome them into the Centre College football family:

 

1. Tyler Lane (6'2, 250) O-Tackle/D-Tackle, Oak Ridge H.S., Oak Ridge, TN

 

2. Dane Spoelker (6'1, 250) Center, Trinity H.S., Louisville, KY

 

3. Evan Draper (6'2, 275) O-Tackle/D-Tackle, Connor H.S., Northern, KY

 

4. Nathan Frye(6'3, 220) Center, Danville H.S., Danville, KY

 

5. Jason Blatt (6'5, 250) O-Tackle/Tight End, Sycamore H.S., Cincinnati, OH

 

6. Charlie Hartkemeyer (6'2, 250) O-Lineman, Hamilton Badin H.S., Hamilton, OH

 

7. Nick Hobbs (5'10, 170) Outside Linebacker, Trinity H.S., Louisville, KY

 

8. Mike Weaver (6'1, 210) D-End, Tucker H.S., Tucker, GA

 

9. James Bozarth (6'2, 260) D-Tackle, Bullitt East H.S., Mt. Washington, KY

 

10. Kent Simpson (6'0, 200) Linebacker/Fullback, Bethlehem H.S., Bardstown, KY

 

11. Stephen Howell (5'11, 215) Linebacker/Fullback, Mason Co. H.S., Maysville, KY

 

12. Grant Sharp (6'2, 210) Linebacker/Wide Receiver/Fullback, Russell Co. H.S., Russell Springs, KY

 

13. Jordan Dockery (6'2, 240) D-Lineman/O-Tackle, Seneca H.S., Louisville, KY

 

14. Will Geisen (6'1, 200) Linebacker, Covington Catholic H.S., Erlanger, KY

 

15. Kevin Harman (6'2, 240) D-Lineman/O-Lineman, Lenoir City H.S., Lenoir City, TN

 

16. Zack Kramer (6'2, 210) D-End, DobynsBennett H.S., Kingsport, TN

 

17. Taylor Irwin (5'10, 165) D-Back/Wide Receiver, Kentucky Country Day, Louisville, KY

 

18. Mike Morrison (5'11, 185) D-Back, Loveland H.S., Loveland, OH

 

19. Jimmy Warren (6'1, 180) D-Back/ Wide Receiver, Scott County H.S., Georgetown, KY

 

20. Tyler Knight (5'10, 180) D-Back, Nelson Co H.S., Boston, KY

 

21. Rob Pope (6'0, 180) Quarterback/Wide Receiver, Lakeland H.S., Atlanta, GA

 

22. Ben Anderson (6'0, 180) Wide Receiver, Kentucky Country Day, Louisville, KY

 

23. Paul Downs (5'11, 180) Running Back, Bardstown H.S., Bardstown, KY

 

24. Nathan Stahl (6'2, 190) Wide Receiver/Linebacker, Mason Co. H.S., Maysville KY

 

25. Jacob Arnold (5'10, 170) Wide Receiver, St. Xavier H.S., Louisville, KY

 

26. Brian Hodge (6'1, 210) Running Back/Linebacker, Ross H.S., Hamilton, OH

 

27. Ned McCaster (5'11, 185) Running Back/Linebacker, Spring Hill H.S., Spring Hill, TN

 

28. Clay Cunningham (6'4, 200) Wide Receiver, Father Ryan H.S., Nashville, TN

 

29. Jordan Hinton (6'0, 175) Quarterback, Russellville H.S., Russellville, KY

 

30. Drew Sanderson (6'0, 180) Quarterback, Graves Co. H.S., Mayfield, KY

 

31. Ben Schlosser (5'11, 225) O-Lineman/Linebacker, Highlands H.S., Ft. Thomas KY

 

In early May, our football team finished our five week non-traditional spring practice without pads. We have a competition at QB that will likely continue up to and through the Hanover scrimmage (at Hanover on August 25th at 1p.m. I was excited to see the progress made by our upper classmen in the weight room this winter and spring. As we say, "competition heightens the play and the joy of the play." We have plenty of competition at all our positions. It will be exciting to see who emerge as our starters next fall.

 

Just before finals, the spring phase of our weights program also finished up, and all of the non-injured players were tested for their progress. Listed below are the spring results of the top five finishes in our speed and strength program.

 

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