Football Announces 2015 Incoming Class

(PITTSBURGH, Pa.) – Carnegie Mellon University Head Football Coach Rich Lackner has announced the Tartans 2015 recruiting class.  The Tartans will welcome 33 newcomers that hail from 15 different states including the District of Columbia.

Carnegie Mellon will enter its second season as an affiliate member for football in the Presidents' Athletic Conference (PAC).  The Tartans will maintain their three-game University Athletic Association (UAA) schedule with Case Western Reserve University, the University of Chicago and Washington University in St. Louis. Case Western Reserve also is an affiliate PAC member.

The Tartans will open the 2015 campaign on Saturday, September 5 with a trip to St. Louis, Missouri to play the Bears of Washington University.   

2015 Recruits:

Benjamin Almack (Noblesville, Ind./St. Theodore Guerin)
Ethan Anderson (McMurray, Pa./Peters Township)
Lior Barhai (Miami, Fla./Scheck Hillel)
Ryan Barrett (Vienna, Va./James Madison)
Andrew Bartusiak (Upper St Clair, Pa./Upper St. Clair)
Justin Belardi (Scranton, Pa./Scranton Prep)
Jake Bentley (Winter Park, Fla./Trinity Prep)
Alex Byrnes (Hinsdale, Ill./Hinsdale Central)
Jason Caso (Ambler, Pa./Wissahickon)
Willy Clark (Ann Arbor, Mich./Skyline)
Alex Cline (Dublin, Ohio/Dublin Jerome)
Forrest Cullings (Washington, Pa./Trinity)
Asad Dar (Marriottsville, Md./Marriotts Ridge)
Preston Dennerlein (Demarest, N.J./Northern Valley Regional)
Connor Faith (Glen Mills, Pa./Garnet Valley)
Peter Geyer (Wyomissing, Pa./Wyomissing Area)
Jake Gutwein (West Lafayette, Ind./West Lafayette)
Marshall Hoebing (Swedesboro, N.J./Kingsway Regional)
Calvin Hubbard (Rolling Hills Estates, Calif./Palos Verdes Peninsula)
Karl-Mark Kumm (Brick, N.J./Brick Township)
Stephen Mesh (Watertown, Conn./Taft School)
Alex Miller (Houston, Texas/Second Baptist)
Julian Nelson (Washington, DC/Archbishop Carroll)
Adedamola Orimolade (Potomac, Md./Bullis School)
Tyler Scanlon (Imperial, Pa./West Allegheny)
Billy Shancey (Kettering, Ohio/Archbishop Alter)
Ben Shorey (Concord, Mass./Concord-Carlisle Regional)
Benton Shortridge (Torrance, Calif./West Torrance)
Kenneth Sladick (Berea, Ohio/Berea-Midpark)
Long Tran (Harrisburg, Pa./Susquehanna Township)
Ashikam Undieh (Mercersburg, Pa./Mercersburg Academy)
Cameron Wilkerson (Fishers, Ind./Saint James School)
Quinn Zsido (New Windsor, N.Y./Cornwall Central)