Kee football team returns seven letterwinners for 2022 campaign from program’s best season in its Eight-Player history last fall
2022 Kee football team ... Left to right - Front row: Zach Goetzinger, Kevin Ashbacher, Kyle Mauss, Ben Franceschetti, Carter Seitz, Andrew Kolsrud, Jarod Reams, Noah Connelly; Middle row: Brendan Croft, Isaiah Wagner, Carter Goetzinger, Zach Meyer, Jackson Schulte, Parker Leppert, Hunter Peterson, Dalton Mudderman; Back row: Assistant Coach Kyle Goetzinger, Assistant Coach Ray Rankin, Sam Janzen, Jordan Cota, Cota Gavin, Tom Troendle, Jacob Rolfs, Karsen Strong, Kaleb Drape, Assistant Coach Hud Johnston, Coach Chad Winters. Photo courtesy of the Kee High School Yearbook.
Having played to its best-ever season in its Eight-Player history last fall, the Kee football team enters its 2022 campaign returning seven letterwinners from last year’s 9-2 season result that took the grid Hawks to the quarterfinals of the Eight-Player State Play-Offs. Those two Kee losses last season came to an Easton Valley team that played its way to a State Runner-Up finish on the way to ending Kee’s grid campaign, with those River Hawks still remaining within the Hawks’ Eight-Player District 5 this season.
Those seven returning letterwinners make up about one-third of this season’s 22 young men in the freshman through senior ranks who have reported for early-season grid duty thus far, and they return that experience within three different grade levels. Seniors Carter Goetzinger, Hunter Peterson, Jacob Rolfs and Tom Troendle headline those returning veterans as this year’s leadership core, with the junior pair of Andrew Kolsrud and Jackson Schulte next in line and sophomore Karsen Strong wrapping up that experienced line-up.
“We are looking for positive leadership day in and day out,” Kee football coach Chad Winters said of his returning letterwinners. “They know they are setting the example for the rest of the team to follow.”
Whether they earned a varsity letter or not from last season, Coach Winters expects any of his team members who return from last fall to be able to contribute to the high school program, especially when called upon to do so. Those contributions might come consistently on the field, or may simply be helping teammates in making their own contributions to the program.
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