The Crusaders have taken strides since Coach Dom D’Addona’s early years, when the program managed just seven total wins across three seasons
After steady progress in recent years, Lansdale Catholic football enters the 2025 season with heightened expectations under head coach Dom D’Addona.
The Crusaders, who won eight games last fall for the first time since 2015, have adopted “Game On!” as their theme and are aiming for a run at a state championship, according to “The Mercury.”
D’Addona told the newspaper the team spent the summer focused on improvement rather than results.
“These past two weeks then throughout the summer that’s what we’ve been doing, just building and building and we’re getting there,” he said in the report. “We’re not there yet and I keep telling them, it doesn’t matter whether you win, you need to get better.”
The Crusaders have taken strides since D’Addona’s early years, when the program managed just seven total wins across three seasons. In the last three years, however, they have won at least five games annually, culminating in a 2024 campaign that included a District 12 Class 2A title, a regional championship, and their first state playoff appearance since 2017, finishing 8-5, according to the article.
Several key contributors return, including leading rusher Nick O’Brien, quarterback Yeboa Cobbold Jr., top receiver Webb, and a defense that limited opponents to 15.8 points per game last fall.
Standouts such as linebacker Brandon Maisonet and Navy commit Darren Jackson give the unit experience and depth, according to the article.
Lansdale Catholic opens the season Friday against School of the Future before traveling to Ocean City, N.J. on Saturday to face Father Judge, according to The Mercury. The Crusaders then host Archbishop Carroll Sept. 6 as they begin their Philadelphia Catholic League Blue Division schedule.
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