2025 Bellingham Football Preview

Coach: Adam Leonard, 4th season with Bellingham (11-19)

Home Field: Civic Stadium

Last Season: 2-8

Key Losses: TE/ILB Gabe VanHofwegen; RB/ILB Tyler Frost; WR/DB Bly Henderson; OL/DL Finnegan Jensen; WR/S Nate Laas; OL/DL Kaiser Barker; T/DE Owen Campbell.

Top Returnees: WR/OLB Joe Harward; C Joshua Kroll; RB/WR/S Owen Hanstead; QB Ben Leonard; WR Myllo Wright; CB Matthew Steel; OL/DL Elias Goodbuffalo; TE/LB Calvin VanHofwegen.


LAST SEASON’S RESULTS

Chief Sealth 10, Bellingham 7

Lakewood 46, Bellingham 14

Anacortes 49, Bellingham 0

Archbishop Murphy 54, Bellingham 13

Bellingham 17, Granite Falls 14

Burlington-Edison 28, Bellingham 21

Sehome 27, Bellingham 7

Bellingham 33, Marysville-Pilchuck 6

Squalicum 39, Bellingham 20

Blaine 33, Bellingham 27


2025 SCHEDULE

09/05 – at Lynnwood – 5 PM (at Edmonds-Woodway HS)

09/12 – Lakewood – 7 PM

09/18 – Anacortes – 5 PM

09/26 – at Archbishop Murphy – 7 PM

10/03 – at Granite Falls – 7 PM

10/10 – Burlington-Edison – 7 PM

10/17 – at Sehome – 7 PM

10/24 – at Marysville-Pilchuck – 7 PM

10/31 – Squalicum – 7 PM


THE FEATURED FOUR

Joe Harward – Senior – Wide Receiver/Outside Linebacker

 

Joshua Kroll – Senior – Center

 

Owen Hanstead – Senior – Running Back/Wide Receiver/Safety

 

Ben Leonard – Junior – Quarterback


Who will be Bellingham’s break out player?

Calvin VanHofwegen – Junior – Tight End/Linebacker



STATISTICAL LEADERS LAST SEASON OF RETURNING PLAYERS

RUSHING
NAME             ATT  YARDS AVG TD
Joe Harward       88   384  4.4  1
Tyree Jackson     37   121  3.3  0
Sonny Powell       1     3  3.0  0
Sebastian Bowers   3     2  0.7  0
Owen Hanstead      9   -22 -2.4  0
Ben Leonard       11   -61 -5.6  0

PASSING
NAME             ATT COM YARDS TD INT
Ben Leonard      183 109  1187 12  7
Joe Harward       73  22   296  1  7
Owen Hanstead      9   4    57  0  2

RECEIVING
NAME             REC  YARDS AVG TD
Joe Harward       40   646 16.2  9
Owen Hanstead     19   196 10.3  0
Myllo Wright      18   166  9.2  0
Calvin VanHofwegen 4    27  6.8  0
Elias Goodbuffalo  1     4  4.0  0
Aiden Pullar       1    14 14.0  1

SCORING
NAME             TD  FG  2PT XP  PTS
Joe Harward      11   0   1   0   68
Aiden Pullar      1   0   0   0    6
Owen Hanstead     0   0   0   1    1


KICKOFF RETURNING
NAME             KR  YARDS  AVG TD
Owen Hanstead    20   308  15.4  0
Joe Harward       6   114  19.0  0
Tyree Jackson     2    38  19.0  0
C. VanHofwegen    2    27  13.5  0
Sebastian Bowers  2     7   3.5  0

PUNT RETURNING
NAME             PR  YARDS  AVG TD
Joe Harward       6    72  12.0  0
Owen Hanstead     1     1   1.0  0

PUNTING
NAME             ATT YARDS  AVG
Owen Hanstead     24  874  36.4
Joe Harward       12  411  34.3

DEFENSE
NAME               TKL  TFL   SK  FF  FR  PD  INT
Owen Hanstead     59.5  1.5  1.0       1   4   2
C. VanHofwegen    24.0  6.5            1   4   1
Sonny Powell      23.0  5.5  0.5       1   1
Matthew Steel     18.5  2.0                6   1
Joe Harward       16.0       1.0           3   1
Elias Goodbuffalo 13.0  5.0  0.5           1
Zach Gerstl        7.0                     1
Aiden Pullar       5.5
Tyree Jackson      5.0
Joshua Kroll       2.0  1.0
Julian Montoya     1.0  1.0
Sebastian Bowers   1.0
Jaquez Love-Rodson 1.0