Allmendinger excited about the opportunity to play football at UConn

Avon High senior Teddy Allmendinger is thrilled with the opportunity to play football at UConn next fall.

Avon’s Teddy Allmendinger doesn’t have a scholarship to play football at UConn next fall. He has an opportunity. The school has offered the Avon High senior a preferred walk-on spot. Allmendinger will have pay for his first year of school like any other student but he will have a chance to earn a scholarship for future seasons.

Allmendinger said the UConn coaches are interested in him playing at fullback.

At Avon, he ran for a team-high 1,278 yards and 13 TDs as a junior in 2014 but he modified his role for his senior season. Head coach Jim Caouette asked Allmendinger to reduce his role offensively this fall to he could focus on his defensive play where he led the team with 145 tackles. The Falcons went 8-2 this past season and won the CCC Div. 3 Eastern Division title.

Allmendinger got bigger and stronger for his senior year and earned a spot on the Walter Camp Foundation’s 24-person All-Connecticut team thanks to his outstanding play on the field this fall.

Allmendinger talked with Jim Fuller of the New Haven Register about his opportunity to play football at UConn as a preferred walk-on.

Only one Avon resident is listed in the UConn football media guide as having earned a varsity letter with the UConn football team. Blaine Driscoll, who graduated from Avon Old Farms, earned a letter with the Huskies in 2011 as a backup quarterback.

John Burdick (Bucknell) and Jimmy Murphy (Wagner) are former Avon High players who are currently playing Division I football. Geoff Kirk has signed a letter of intent to play at Army next fall.