Football—Varsity

More significant than the individual and team distinctions: every year that Thacher has fielded a team, players at every level of experience and skill have shared rich and rewarding experiences and learned lessons about teamwork, dedication, and sportsmanship on the football field at Thacher. We are very proud of the success many of our alumni have had playing college football. Former Thacher players have also gone on to compete at a number of highly competitive universities, including Whittier College, Bowdoin College, Pitzer College, Colgate University, Princeton University, MIT, the University of the South (Sewanee), LaVerne University, Hamilton College, Williams College, and Middlebury College.

About Coach Hooper:
Coach Hooper has been associated with a football team in some fashion or another since 1982, his first season playing tackle football in second grade. Through plenty of wins and losses in the ensuing years, his love for the sport and for the unique opportunity in team building that each fall brings have never waned. Among his most gratifying experiences as a coach are working in partnership with assistant coaches and seniors to build positive team culture and camaraderie. Coach Hooper’s goal is to create an experience that has meaning for players beyond their time on the field and he’s especially delighted when he sees football alumni on the sidelines cheering on the current iteration of Toad Football.