Ethan Hellmann – 2026 – QB – Upper St. Clair - @ethanhellmann
1. How would your coaches and teammates describe you?
Energetic and competitive
2. What makes you a good player? What are the strengthens in your game?
A big part of being a good player is having the full trust of my teammates. Knowing that they trust me and have confidence in me allows me to be the player that I am.
3. What are your hobbies or interest outside of sports?
I like to fish
4. What is the toughest class in your school and who is the teacher?
Spanish and Mrs Kopaz
5. Is there a coach that you look up to as a role model and why?
I would say coach Junko because he is more than just a football coach. Whatever problem players have he will be there for them to help.
6. Who is a young player on your team that we don’t know about that will become a big name?
John Banbury for sure
7. Rank the top 5 priorities currently in your life?
Family – School – Football – Staying Healthy – Working Hard
8. Do you have any secret talent?
NO
9. What does your daily routine look like?
Go to school – after school go to football practice – then come home and do homework – then play madded if I have time.
10. What are your preferred pre-game routines?
Rotator cuff exercises and stretch
11. What is your favorite song or musician to listen before games?
Lets get it by Hunxho
12. Who has the best Pizza in Western, PA?
Fioris
13. Who has the best Chicken Wings in Western, PA?
Buffalo Wild Wings
14. Where do you see yourself in 10 years?
Playing Professional Football
Nolan DiLucia – 2026 – QB/S – Peters Township - @dilucianolan
How would your coaches and teammates describe you? My teammates and coaches would say that I am hard working, driven, team first, and always well prepared.
What makes you a good player? What are the strengthens in your game? My ability to work off script and My knowledge and feel for the game.
What are your hobbies or interest outside of sports? I love to workout. I also like to spend time with my family and friends.
What is the toughest class in your school and who is the teacher? Algebra II honors - Maura Palermo.
Is there a coach that you look up to as a role model and why? This is a hard decision because I look up to all my coaches in many different ways.
Some examples are Coach McMillon because he is great with handling things with us players and Coach Grunseth because he is always so prepared.
Who is a young player on your team that we don’t know about that will become a big name? Lucas Shanafelt.
Rank the top 5 priorities currently in your life? God, Family, School, Football, and Friends.
Do you have any secret talent? I’m a good pickleball player.
What does your daily routine look like? I wake up, get ready for school, go to football, do my homework, pray, and go to sleep.
What are your preferred pre-game routines? I eat two PB and J’s and I just relax and gather my thoughts for the game.
What is your favorite song or musician to listen before games? I truly don’t listen to music. I try to just gather my thoughts and relax.
Who has the best Pizza in Western, PA? I gotta go with Fiori’s but Mineos is up there.
Who has the best Chicken Wings in Western, PA? Honestly a place in Wellsburg, West Virginia called Drovers Inn but I like Buffalo wild wings.
Where do you see yourself in 10 years? Doing something with football hopefully playing but if not being involved with the game
Kyle Langdon – 2025 – Linebacker – North Allegheny - @kylelangdon
1. How would your coaches and teammates describe you?
A hardnosed, relentless, and aggressive player who gives 110% effort up until the whistle
2. What makes you a good player? What are the strengthens in your game?
Having no fear. My strengths are that I’m a quick learner and know my plays well, along with others’assignments around me. My speed kills but my downhill running is something you want to get out ofthe way of
3. What are your hobbies or interest outside of sports?
I like to go hunting on the weekends as well as doing some carpentry on the side
4. What is the toughest class in your school and who is the teacher?
My toughest class this year has to be honors history but my teacher Mr. Lyons makes it fun
5. Is there a coach that you look up to as a role model and why?
Coach Kevin Thompson. He’s the coach who has molded me into the player I am today and is always by
my side guiding me
6. Who is a young player on your team that we don’t know about that will become a big name?
Luke Rohan
7. Rank the top 5 priorities currently in your life?
Religion, Family, School, Football, and Self-Improvement
8. Do you have any secret talent?
I'm artistic
9. What does your daily routine look like?
I usually wake up at 3am to eat one of the 7 meals I eat throughout the day then go back to sleep for a
little bit longer. I then wake back up at 6am to eat breakfast and get ready for school, by 6:30am I’m
off to school till 12, then I head to my tech school for the rest of my day for my construction class.
After school I head back to Nash to get ready for a lift as well as football practice. Once pratice is over
I get cleaned up and head home to eat dinner, do my homework, shower, and get to sleep to start it all
over agin the next day.
10. What are your preferred pre-game routines?
I prefer to sit alone for the most part with music blasting and concentrating on clearing my mind of all
Distraction
11. What is your favorite song or musician to listen before games?
Swag Surfin’ by F.L.Y- Fast Life Yungstaz
12. Who has the best Pizza in Western, PA?
Monte Cello’s
13. Who has the best Chicken Wings in Western, PA?
Billy’s Roadhouse
14. Where do you see yourself in 10 years?
Like most athletes, I hope to make it division 1 and then go on to play professionally, but I do have a backup in mind already if that plan does not work out. I plan to still go to school for a business degree and eventually own my own construction or carpentry company.
Kaleb Platz – 2025 – Linebacker – Montour - @kaleb_platz
1.) How would your coaches and Teammates describe you?
- My coaches and teammates would describe me as a leader, passionate, hard working, and always asking questions to understand the game better.
2.) What makes you a good player and what are your strengths in your game?
- I think what makes me a good player is my football IQ and the way I can translate film study to the field. The strengths of my game are being able to make plays sideline to sideline, my leadership ability, and being able to stay calm under pressure.
3.) What are your hobbies or interests outside of sports?
- I really enjoy listening to music, playing golf and cornhole with my friends.
4.) What is the toughest class in school and who is the teacher?
- My hardest class is Honors Precalculus and Trigonometry with Mrs. Wilson.
5.) Is there a coach you look up to as a role model and why?
- A coach I look up to as a role model is Dorin Dickerson because he pushes me to my limits and makes me an all-around better player.
6.) Who is a younger player on your team that we don't know about that will become a big name ?
- Freshman Jacob Halbedl is someone to look out for.
7.) Rank the top five priorities in your life?
- My top five priorities in life are family, school, sports, friends and sleep.
8.) Do you have any secret talent?
- A talent that nobody knows about is that I was good at riding a ripstik.
9.) What does your daily routine look like?
- I wake up at 6:00 am, brush my teeth, do a quick a workout, take a shower, go to school from 7:20- 2:06, watch film until 3:15, go to practice until 5:45, come home, eat dinner, work on homework until it's time to go to bed.
10.) What are your preferred pregame routines?
- For home games I like to take a nap after school until 3:15, go back to school at 4:00, have a team focus session from 4:20- 5:00, stretch and listen to music until game time.
11.) What is your favorite song or musician to listen to before games ?
- Dreams and Nightmares by Meek Mill.
12.) Who has the best pizza in western, PA?
- Beto’s pizza, because they put cold cheese on top of the hot pizza.
13.) Who has the best chicken wings in western, PA?
- Angelia’s Italian grille, because they make the best garlic parm wings.
14.) Where do you see yourself in 10 years?
- I see myself in 10 years playing football or working in Real Estate