PRONUNCIATION
2025 | SOPHOMORE SEASON
Named College Sport Communicators (CSC) Academic All-District…Appeared in nine games as a reserve defensive lineman ... Recorded seven total tackles including five solo stops and two assists ... Saw action in every game except the season opener at UAlbany ... Made tackles in five different contests with solo stops against Yale (Sept. 27), Colgate (Oct. 4), Bucknell (Oct. 18), Penn (Nov. 8), and Columbia (Nov. 22) ... Added an assisted tackle against Harvard (Oct. 10) ... Gained valuable experience rotating on the defensive line.
2024 | FRESHMAN SEASON
Did not see varsity action
PRIOR TO CORNELL
Was named a three-time conference Defensive Player of the Year as a defensive end (2021, 22, 23) ... first-team All-State defensive lineman (2023) ... earned four football varsity letters ... three-sport athlete along with basketball and track and field ... served as captain of his basketball team for a season (2022) ... was a member of the National Honor Society ... president of his high school's weight room club ... also plays saxophone.
PERSONAL
Cole Joseph Bennett is the son of Jeffrey and Michelle Bennett, and has two sisters ... his father, Jeffrey, played two years of football at both Holy Cross and Syracuse ... his mother, Michelle, played women's basketball at Keene State ... his sister Mackenzie played women's basketball at Keene State ... his sister, Graceann, played women's basketball at Georgetown and now plays professionally in Greece with Esperides Basketball ... he is enrolled in the College of Arts and Sciences.
