After stepping in for his father Rob and leading Windsor High School to a Class MM state title and a 12-1 record, Warriors Head Coach Quinn Fleeting will not be leading the program in 2026.
Jesse Davis has stepped down as the Head Football Coach at Wellesley High School. Davis, a Wellesley alumnus also teaches at the school and was New England Football Journal’s Division 2 Coach of the Year in 2024.
The Super 26 all-state team selections have been revealed. All players on this team will be honored March 1 in a dinner co-sponsored by the Gridiron Club of Greater Boston and MHSFCA at the Burlington Marriott.
The team is littered with multi-year players who were record breakers in high school. It is an impressive group of young men who have made their presence felt the past four years.
Here is the 2025 Super 26 team.
The CIAC championship games were played last weekend but we close the book in the 2025 season by sharing some thoughts on the season that was.
Here are some thoughts on each game and why the winning team won a championship.
The Connecticut Coaches Association announced its 2025 all-state football teams. The teams are divided into a Top 30 team and then teams by class.
Here is this year’s Top 30 players and the top players in all six classes.
Top 30 Team
RB — Cristian Luciano, Amity
OL — Jacob Romanowski, Ansonia
WR — Rody Ricketts, Bunnell
LB — Conor Casagrande, Daniel Hand
Image courtesy of CIAC Sports By Rob Gullo & Andy Close NEFJ Correspondents It’s time to put a bow on the 2025 high school football season in the state of Connecticut. Greenwich (Class LL), New Canaan (Class L), Windsor (Class MM), Berlin (Class M), Hand (Class SS), and Sheehan (Class S) all captured state titles over the weekend. New Canaan completes a wire-to-wire run as the top team in our……
Image courtesy of Scott Sulkazi By Andy Close NEFJ Correspondent NEW BRITAIN — Greenwich made back-to-back look easy on Saturday. The Cardinals put together a dominant first half, as Jack Kelly accounted for four total touchdowns in a 45-6 win over Southington in the Class LL title game to win a second consecutive state title. “It feels surreal,” Kelly said. “We came into this season and said we can’t get…
Image courtesy of Dan Heary By Rob Gullo NEFJ Correspondent NEW BRITAIN — When Brookfield scored a touchdown and converted a two-point conversion to take a 15-14 lead over Berlin with 48 seconds left in Saturday’s CIAC Class M state championship game at Arute Field, it looked as if the Bobcats were going to avenge last year’s title loss and becomes this year’s champion. Berlin’s Eli Rice had different plans….
Image courtesy of Scott Sulkazi By Andy Close NEFJ Correspondent NEW BRITAIN — Make it four in a row for the New Canaan Rams. Behind 166 yards and two touchdowns on the ground from Finn Mocco , the Rams rolled to their fourth consecutive CIAC Class L title, 34-13 over Cheshire on Saturday. It was a dominant performance from start to finish from one of New England’s premier programs. It…
Image courtesy of Carlos Rodriguez By Rob Gullo NEFJ Correspondent NEW BRITAIN — A year ago, Windsor saw its season-long goal of becoming state champions come up short at the hands of the Masuk Panthers, who defeated the Warriors by three points for the 2024 CIAC Class MM state title. Fast forward a year later to Saturday and the opportunity wasn’t going to pass them by this time. Windsor defeated…