Varsity Football
I love GA athletics because of the great tradition that we have in all sports. The opportunity to coach great people, great students and great athletes is as good as it gets. I love implementing our traditions and coaching kids with our core values and watching them succeed. I feel truly blessed and honored to be the head football coach at Germantown Academy.
- Matt Dence, Head Coach
Football News
The GA Department of Athletics is pleased to present the fifth episode of The Patriot Playbook, and the final one of the fall sports season!
After a 12-year run that included eight winning seasons, Germantown Academy Head Football Coach Matt Dence is stepping down from his position. The Patriots finished the 2023 season with a 5-5 record that ended with a 35-14 loss to Penn Charter on Nov. 11. Dence finishes his tenure with the Patriots with a 67-46-1 overall record.
The Inter-Academic League released its All-League teams for the 2023 fall season. Germantown Academy was well-represented on the lists, with 22 student-athletes being recognizeD, one of whom was named the Most Valuable Player for their respective sport.
In a game-changing move over the summer, sophomore Jake Hsu reshaped the course of his athletic journey. His choice to switch sports constituted a career-defining decision, as he traded his wide receiver gloves for a pair of basketball sneakers.
Expletives, eyebrows, and onomatopoeia. When those are the main ingredients people use to describe a quarterback, chances are they’re referencing a special talent. Such is the case with Germantown Academy sophomore Xavier Stearn, who, through just five games in his first season as a starter, has already statistically outpaced the school’s long line of talented quarterbacks.