Tuesday, January 25, 2011

Local Star Stays Home

Cody Patch, a 5-foot-10, 185-pound running back from nearby Lebanon High School has committed to the Dartmouth football program. Patch, who helped the Raiders go undefeated last fall, ran for 1,200 yards and 25 touchdowns in 11 games as a senior. He was one of the five finalists for New Hampshire's Mr. Football.

Patch had drawn recruiting interest from Penn, Holy Cross, Lehigh, UNH and Robert Morris among others and last week took an official visit to Sacred Heart. He's the first Upper Valley football player to come to Dartmouth since Norwich's Conner McGee, who came to the Big Green from St. Paul's School in 1998.

Scroll down this story to read a bit about Patch. This blog post talks about him as well.

Find Cody Patch's highlight video here.

Patch has been timed at 4.55 in the 40, and runs for the Lebanon track team in the winter.

Patch follows in the footsteps of several locals including Lebanon state championship shotputter Dominic Filiano, who won the event in the Big Green's three-way meet with Columbia and Yale last weekend, and fellow Lebanon graduate Josh Cyphers, a top pole vaulter as a freshman. Lebanon High sprinter/shot putter (believe it or not) Cathy Liebowitz will be a freshman on the track team next year, when she will be a teammate of a Certain Hanover High graduate ;-)

No comments: