2023: Named the Northeast-10 Defensive Lineman of the Year and to the Northeast-10 All-Conference First Team … Selected All-New England by the New England Football Writers … Served as one of three team captains … Earned Academic Honors (Fall 2023) and Academic Distinction (Spring 2024) accolades on the Northeast-10 Academic Honor Roll and named to the New Haven Dean’s List following the spring semester … Started all 11 games of the season, finishing the year seventh on the team with 39 total tackles, 19 unassisted and 20 assisted tackles … Among his 39 tackles were nine tackles for loss, second most on the team, resulting in 26 total yards … Among the nine TFL were 2.5 sacks that led to 14 yards … Added a fumble recovers, which came against Saint Anselm (Oct. 14) and an interception which came against Bentley (Sep. 9) … Also finished the season with five quarterback hurries and one pass breakup … Finished all 11 games with at least one tackle, setting a season-high with six on two occasions, against Lincoln-Calif. (Oct. 7) and Bentley (Nov. 11), both home games … Finished with a season-high three tackles for loss in the season opener against Frostburg (Aug. 31), part of five total tackles in the game.
2022: Named to the Northeast-10 All-Conference First Team as a defensive lineman … Earned Academic Honors accolades on the Northeast-10 Academic Honor Roll following the Spring 2023 semester … Started all 11 games as a defensive lineman … Finished the season with 42 total tackles, 29 solo and 13 assisted … Finished with at least one tackled in every game, setting a career-high with eight in the second game of the season, a non-conference match-up with crosstown rival Southern Connecticut State University (Sep. 10) … Added team-highs in tackles for loss (12.0) and sacks with 8.5 … Finished with three total tackles at Saint Anselm (Oct. 1), all of which were TFL’s accounting for a total of 25 yards lost, with two of those being sacks … Added another 1.5 sacks for nine yards in that game against SCSU … Closed out the road game at Assumption with five solo tackles, adding another sack to his credit … Closed out the season with one sack in each of the final two games – the annual Elm City battle against Southern Connecticut (Nov. 12) and the NCAA playoff game at Shepherd (Nov. 19) … Also added five QB hurries and one pass breakup while blocking a kick in the Chargers Senior Day rout of Franklin Pierce (Nov. 5) … Credited with a trio of forced fumbles, all coming in separate games, including one in each of the final two games of the season – SCSU and Shepherd.
2021: Appeared in 10 games, collecting eight tackles … Finished with at least one tackle in each of the first four games, setting a season-high of three in the second game of the season against Bowie State (Sep. 9) … Also added a forced fumble, two QB hurries and a pass breakup … Earned Academic Honors accolades on the Northeast-10 Academic Honor Roll following the Spring 2022 season.
Before New Haven: Spent two years at Rutgers University where he did not see game action in 2019 or 2020 … Named Academic All-Big Ten in 2020.
Prior to Rutgers: Spent 2018 at Fork Union and helped team to a perfect 9-0 record as a linebacker, defensive end and h-back ... played for Patriot High School as a defensive end.
Personal: Son of Jay and Tricia Quander … Has three siblings; one brother, Tyler and two sisters Marissa and Madden … Great grandfather, Andrew Sivess, played football, basketball and baseball at Rutgers where he is a member as of the Rutgers Athletics Hall of Fame … Earned a Bachelor of Science in business management in May 2024 … Currently pursuing a Graduate Certificate in business management.
