2018 Football Roster
Roster
John Tessitore
- Class:
- Freshman
- Position:
- Kicker/Punter
- Height:
- 6-1
- Weight:
- 190
- Hometown:
- Wallingford, Conn.
- High School:
- Choate Rosemary Hall
2020 (REDSHIRT SOPHOMORE): Played in 11 games as the placeholder on field goals and point-after tries … executed a fake snap on a field goal attempt to draw Clemson offside, which led to a touchdown on the following play.
2019 (REDSHIRT FRESHMAN): Did not see any game action.
2018 (FRESHMAN): Played in four games before redshirting the remainder of the season … converted 14 of 18 extra-point attempts.
HIGH SCHOOL: Four-year letterwinner for head coach L.J. Spinnato at Choate Rosemary Hall … voted team captain of the four-time, undefeated New England Class A Prep School champions as a senior … holds school record for single-season points by a kicker with 76 as a junior … scored 16 points in the 2016 New England Class A championship game … in the 2016 NEPSAC championship victory over Trinity-Pawling, converted all three of his field goal attempts, ran in a pair of two-point conversions and added three successful PATs … won 39 straight games during his career at Choate Rosemary Hall … rated as the No. 9 player in Connecticut and the No. 16 kicker nationally according to 247Sports composite rankings … honored with the 2017 Michael R. Sadler Award for “Excellence On & Off The Field” at Kohl’s National Invitational Scholarship Camp … went two full seasons without missing a field goal attempt of 40+ yards … two-time All Central New England selection as a junior and senior … also played quarterback, defensive back and wide receiver … will join former high school teammates Will Harris and John Fadule at Boston College … one of the few players in New England history to play in five NEPSAC bowl games … played varsity football as an eighth grader at Hamden Hall as the starting kicker.
PERSONAL: Son of Joe ’93 and Rebecca Tessitore … his father Joe is a play-by-play announcer for ABC/ESPN … sister Nicolina plays squash at Virginia … enrolled as a finance major in the Carroll School of Management … recipient of The Jack Bicknell, Sr. Scholarship Fund.
