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2024 Football Roster

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76 Patrick Passalacqua

  • Position Defensive Line
  • Height 6-2
  • Class Senior
  • Weight 295
  • Hometown Old Tappan, N.J.
  • Previous School Northern Valley Regional
  • College Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science/Engineering
  • Major Industrial Engineering & Operations Research

Biography

2024: CSC Academic All-American … Semifinalist for NFF William V. Campbell Trophy, the most prestigious and desirable academic award in college football … Honorable Mention All-Ivy League … Winner of team’s Phil Fusco Award … Team captain … Started all 10 games at defensive tackle … Posted 32 tackles … Had five stops, including one for a loss in road win over Brown … Posted five tackles against Dartmouth … Established career-high with seven tackles and forced a fumble in win against No. 18 Lafayette.

2023: Team captain … Started all 10 games at defensive tackle … Academic All-Ivy League … Recovered fumble against Penn … Set season-high with four tackles at Princeton, including one for a loss.

2022: Played all 10 games for the Lions … Posted 26 total tackles, 3.5 tackles for loss and one sack … Registered four total tackles and 0.5 tackle for loss in the season opener at Marist (Sept. 17) … Had a season high five tackles, 0.5 tackle for loss and 0.5 sacks in the season finale against Cornell (Nov. 19) … Recorded three tackles each in games against Wagner (Oct. 8), Penn (Oct. 15), Dartmouth (Oct. 22) and Harvard (Nov. 5).
 
2021: Saw action in one game as a first-year on the offensive line … Listed as the backup center on the depth chart … Made career debut in season opener vs. Marist (Sept. 18).
 
2020: Chose to take a gap year due to the COVID-19 pandemic … Did not enroll at Columbia.
 
HIGH SCHOOL: A 2020 graduate of Northern Valley Regional High School in Old Tappan, N.J., where he played four years of varsity football for Head Coach Brian Dunn … Three-time First Team All-State selection in Group 4 … Member of the Super 100 All-State team as a senior … Second Team All-State selection as a senior … First Team All-North New Jersey pick as a senior … Three-time First Team All-Bergen County selection as an offensive lineman … Three-time First Team All-New Jersey Group 4 selection … Three-time All-League selection … Named the Bergen County Record North Jersey Athlete of the Week … Named team captain as a senior offensive and defensive lineman … First Team All-County offensive lineman as a sophomore … Director of Athletics Association of New Jersey Scholar Athlete of the Year honoree … Led the Golden Knights to four straight sectional appearances and a combined 38-10 overall record … Led the Golden Knights to an 8-4 record and advanced to sectional final as a senior … As a defensive lineman, picked three career passes, one which he returned for a touchdown … Helped lead the Golden Knights to an 8-3 record and sectional final appearance as a junior … Led the Golden Knights to the Group 4 state championship, a 12-0 record as a sophomore … Also competed for four years in indoor and outdoor track and field where he was a thrower … All-American thrower as a senior … Finished in second place at Eastern States … Two-time team captain in track and field … Two-time First Team All-Bergen County in the shot put … Won state sectional championship in the shot put during junior year … Finished third at the New Jersey State Indoor Meet of Champions in the shot put as a junior … Set school-record with 54-10 ½ shot put during indoor track and field and personal-best in outdoor shot put was 61-7 ¾ during junior season … The mark ranked No. 7 in the nation during the indoor 2020 season … National Honor Society member … Nine-time Scholar-Athlete award winner … National Merit Scholar Commended Student honoree … 11-time Scholar-Athlete award winner at NVOT … Member of the Northern Valley Leadership Program … Served as a peer mentor … Served as a counselor for the school’s track and football camps.
 
PERSONAL: Father graduated from Cornell in 1985 where he played football...Cousin Nicole Passalacqua graduated from Columbia Teacher’s College in 2016...Enrolled in the Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science.

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Historical Player Information

  • 76

    2021Sophomore

    Offensive Lineman
    6'2" 280 lbs
    76
  • 76

    2022Sophomore

    Defensive Line
    6'2" 285 lbs
    76
  • 76

    2023Junior

    Defensive Line
    6'2" 295 lbs
    76
  • 76

    2024Senior

    Defensive Line
    6'2" 295 lbs
    76