Carroll chooses Honick as new Head Coach
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Mike Livingston | January 13, 2025
RADNOR — The Archbishop Carroll Football team has found their man.
The Patriots have elected to hire Stephen Honick ‘17 as the ninth head coach in school history and fourth since the retiring of legendary head man Dan Bielli back in 2010.
Honick, statistically one of the best quarterbacks in program history, played for the Patriots from 2013-2016. In that time under coach’s Joe Powel and Dan Connor – the team would go an underwhelming 9-32. While Honick established himself as one of the best quarterbacks around by his senior season in 2016.
Honick, now four years removed from his time at West Chester University where he served as a student assistant, will be one of the youngest head coaches in the area.
The former Golden Ram also spent his first two years of college at Ursinus where he played quarterback for the Bears.
Honick was eventually promoted to quarterbacks coach at West Chester while also spending time with Next Level Greats 7v7 as head coach and offensive coordinator for their 13u team. Honick’s last stop was as a graduate assistant at division one Temple University, a position he assumed back in 2022.
He will now be tasked with turning around a Carroll program that hasn’t seen sustained success since the early 2000s under Bielli who won three consecutive Catholic League titles in 2000, 2001, and 2002. The team is coming off of five consecutive losing seasons and have just one (2019) in the last 16 years.
Honick inherits a team plagued by inconsistencies, and on field struggles, along with mounting rumors of transfers and some that have already taken place such as star wideout, sophomore Ty Ty Mattison who announced he’d be transferring to Northeast high school for the 2025 season.
With the news now official, offseason workouts which have trudged on in the absence of a head man should resume as planned for the winter while Honick prepares his team for the 2025 campaign which kicks off August 22nd at William Tennant HS.
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