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<strong>2010</strong> Charger Football<br />
Dr. John Willson returns for<br />
his fourth season, and his second<br />
tenure, as the kicking coach for<br />
the Chargers.<br />
Dr. Willson was inducted<br />
into the Hillsdale College Athletic<br />
Hall of Fame in 2005 and has<br />
spent many years as part of the<br />
coaching staff. He also was the<br />
founding coach of the college’s<br />
women’s track and cross country<br />
programs.<br />
Dr. Willson’s athletic legacy<br />
has continued to this day, with his<br />
granddaughter Clara entering her<br />
junior season with the Charger<br />
volleyball team. Granddaughter<br />
Anna became an All-American in<br />
track in the spring of <strong>2010</strong>.<br />
Vince Alentado<br />
Kickers<br />
Dr. John Willson<br />
Student Coaches<br />
Jordan Knudsen<br />
Derek Drelles<br />
Matt Patillo<br />
Drew Berube<br />
Wide Receivers<br />
Steve Otterbein<br />
Steve Otterbein played football<br />
at Hillsdale College for four years. In<br />
February <strong>2010</strong>, he came back home.<br />
Otterbein was named the team’s wide<br />
receivers coach, coming on the heels of the<br />
departure of offensive coordinator Barry<br />
Fagan.<br />
Otterbein, the oldest son of Hillsdale<br />
head coach Keith Otterbein, spent three<br />
seasons as a graduate assistant at Eastern<br />
Michigan University after graduating<br />
from Hillsdale. While at EMU, he<br />
worked with the team’s defensive linemen<br />
every day at practice, and assisted with<br />
practice preparation for the program’s<br />
scout team offense and special teams.<br />
He also had extensive behind-the-scenes<br />
responsibilities in all aspects of EMU’s<br />
football program, including working with<br />
the team’s out-of-area recruiting program.<br />
Otterbein earned his degree from<br />
Hillsdale in May 2007, majoring in secondary education and physical education,<br />
along with a minor in math. In April <strong>2010</strong>, he received his master’s degree in<br />
sports management from Eastern Michigan.<br />
Otterbein was a two-year starter at safety for the Chargers, and was selected<br />
to the GLIAC All-Academic Team three times.<br />
Quarterbacks<br />
Mark Nicolet<br />
Mark Nicolet is entering his<br />
first season as part of the Charger<br />
coaching staff, and will coach the team’s<br />
quarterbacks. He is only months removed<br />
from his playing days, as he’s spent the<br />
past two summers playing professionally<br />
overseas.<br />
After graduating from Hillsdale<br />
College in 2008, Nicolet played<br />
professional football for teams in Sweden<br />
and Spain, leading the former to that<br />
country’s football national championship<br />
in 2009. Nicolet has also played for the<br />
Green Bay Freeze of afl2.<br />
While at Hillsdale College, Nicolet<br />
set a new standard of excellence, both as<br />
a quarterback on the field and a studentathlete<br />
off the field. He was named GLIAC<br />
Player of the Year in 2007 and the GLIAC<br />
Scholar-Athlete of the Year for the 2007-<br />
08 athletic year. He set several singlegame<br />
and single-season school records<br />
while suiting up for Hillsdale from 2004-<br />
07. He and his wife Meagan were married<br />
in January <strong>2010</strong>.<br />
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