Kee’s football squad for 2025 returns nearly half its team members with varsity letterwinning experience
2025 Kee football team ... Left to right - Front row: Isaac Rasque, Nate Koch, Zach Goetzinger, Ronny Escobar Lopez, Adam Wheeler, Noah Connelly, Wyatt Henkel; Middle row: Isaiah Wagner, Aleks Stankovich, Jackson Darling, Trey Cota, Kyle Mauss, Wesley McKee, Oden Welsh, Austyn Mohn, Braxton Pohlman; Back row: Tanner Troendle, Eli Schobert, Irey Mettille, Zach Meyer, Sam Janzen, Conner Winters. Photo by Danielle Potter.
2025 Kee football returning letterwinners ... Left to right - Front row: Zach Goetzinger, Trey Cota, Kyle Mauss, Adam Wheeler, Noah Connelly; Back row: Tanner Troendle, Eli Schobert, Irey Mettille, Zach Meyer, Sam Janzen. Photo by Danielle Potter.
Nearly half of the 2025 Kee football team will be returning with varsity letterwinning experience, as 10 of the 22 Hawks reporting for early-season practice have made varsity contributions over the past year or more, including to Kee’s 5-4 campaign last fall that took the Hawks into the Eight-Player State Play-Offs for the second consecutive season. Those returning veterans provide a fairly balanced mix of those in the trenches on the front line, those powering out of the backfield, and other skilled positions on both sides of the football.
Headlining that wealth of returning experience will be a group of six seniors, including Noah Connelly, Zach Goetzinger, Sam Janzen, Kyle Mauss, Zach Meyer and Adam Wheeler. A pair each of juniors, Trey Cota and Tanner Troendle, and sophomores, Irey Mettille and Eli Schobert, round out that list of letterwinning returnees.
“Their leadership is vital to our success,” Kee football head coach Chad Winters said as he enters his 13th year at the Hawk helm. “They set the tone in every rep, drill and session we do at practice. The standards they set are the ones that everyone else follows. So far, they have been doing a great job of being coachable and working hard at everything we have done.”
In addition to that letterwinning crew, each grade level has a small handful of athletes who will be looked to for making contributions this season. Some of those are first-year players at the high school level, but that certainly doesn’t mean they can’t take on leadership roles at their respective levels of play.
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