Vermont views itself as “sleeping giant” ahead of 2019 season

With Ian MacKay graduated, Vermont will have to adapt on offense in 2019. (Brian Jenkins)

After your most successful season in program history, do you sit back on your laurels and reflect? Do you temper your expectations after a program-defining player graduates, fearful about what lies ahead?

No, as long-pole and last year’s leading groundballer Andrew Simeon (Simsbury, Conn.) said. Vermont doubles down.

“I think we’re a sleeping giant,” the former Westminster School standout proclaimed. “And we’re excited for another opportunity to show our stuff.”

These days in Burlington, Vt., after a landmark 2018 campaign that established them as one of New England’s most feared, the Catamounts are brimming with confidence.