Following in the footsteps of All-Americans before him in Keith Cadden and Ed Dougherty, Jason Marraccini had seemingly impossible footsteps to fill. But after two seasons playing in the footsteps of Cadden, he stepped into the starting role in 1997 and immediately guided the Warriors to the NCAA Division III National Championship game. A team leader from the first snap of his junior year, he earned back-to-back First Team All-Freedom League honors. Perhaps his greatest performance came in the semifinals of the 1997 NCAA Tournament against Rowan, when he led the Warriors back from a 20-0 halftime deficit, scoring on a five-yard run to cap an 80-yard fourth quarter drive to give Lycoming a 21-20 lead en route to the 28-20 win. During the season, he tied the school record for rushing touchdowns with 13. As a senior, the Bangor High graduate was even better – earning American Football Coaches’ Association All-American honors, becoming the only first team All-American quarterback in school history. Marraccini set the school record for passing yards in a game (243.8) while tossing for 2,682 yards and finishing ninth in the nation with a 149.1 pass efficiency rating. He finished his career with two MAC titles and he still holds the school’s all-time records for pass efficiency (141.3), average yards per pass attempt (8.3) and average yards per completion (15.6). Currently a news photographer with WPVI TV in Philadelphia, he was inducted into the Lycoming College Athletics Hall of Fame in 2007.
