ACADEMIC HONORS & AWARDS
- Academic All-Centennial Conference (2025) |
2025
- Totaled 21 tackles, including 6.0 for losses and 4.5 sacks.
- Tied for second on the team in sacks.
- Notched a career-best four tackles in a 42-14 season-opening win at Ithaca.
- Totaled 1.5 sacks in a 40-22 win at #5/#4 Susquehanna.
- Posted three tackles in a 28-27 win against #15/#17 Carnegie Mellon and added three, including a sack, in a 59-21 win at Gettysburg.
- Notched two tackles, including 1.5 for losses and half a sack, in a 42-0 win against McDaniel.
2024
- Reserve defensive lineman and special teams standout who appeared in nine games.
- Saw first action of the season in a 20-13 win over Rowan.
- After playing in two of first seven games of the year, appeared in each of the last seven, including all four gmaes in the NCAA Playoffs.
- Posted six tackles, including three solo stops, on the year.
- Registered a career-best three tackles in a 51-7 win at Gettysburg.
- Notched a pair of tackles in a 30-0 win at Dickinson.
2023
- Saw action in one game in first season at Homewood.
- Made first career appearance in a 55-20 win at Rowan.
At Garden City
- Played football and lacrosse.
- Led football team to a 24-0 record over his last two seasons.
- Helped football team to Long Island championship and county title each of final two seasons.
- Second team all-state, all-county, All-Long Island as a junior.
- First team all-state, All-Long Island and first team academic all-state, senior year.
- Helped lacrosse team to two state championships and three Long Island championships in lacrosse.Â
Personal
- Sawyer Olson.
- Son of Stephanie Scherr Olson and Chris Besendorfer.
- Has four siblings, Jamie, Juliet, Emily, and Zachary.
- Majoring in mechanical engineering.
