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# Senior class looking to make own mark for Londonderry football
- URL: https://www.nh-highschoolsports.com/senior-class-looking-to-make-own-mark-for-londonderry-football/
- Published: 2023-08-14T14:45:00.000Z
- Updated: 2023-08-14T14:45:00.000Z
- Description: There are a lot of familiar faces as preseason practices have started for the Londonderry High School football team. Well, they're familiar to those within the Lancers' program. To those outside, it might take a few looks at the roster to get up to speed. After losing a senior class that helped lead
- Author: Joe Marchilena
- Tags: Division I, football, Londonderry, NH High School Sports Insider, preseason, slider, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-08-18 04:44

There are a lot of familiar faces as preseason practices have started for the Londonderry High School football team.

Well, they're familiar to those within the Lancers' program. To those outside, it might take a few looks at the roster to get up to speed.

After losing a senior class that helped lead Londonderry to two Division I titles games, and one championship, the last two years, coach Jimmy Lauzon goes into this year needing to fill 17 starting spots.

He's got another big senior class to start with, but there aren't many who have a lot of varsity experience.

"I’ve been careful with using the phrase we’re young, because we’re not really young, we’re inexperienced at some positions," Lauzon said. "The great thing about this situation, where we have a lot of guys competing for spots is, last year, we walked in and you kind of know the core guys who are going to be on the field. It’s easy for those guys to take their foot off the gas, and then the guys behind them take their foot off the gas because they know they’re not going to play.

"This year, nobody knows what spot (they’ll be in), and we might piece guys into different areas. I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t excited about some of these guys who have been waiting their turn."

Jake Schenna is one of the seniors who has varsity experience going into this season, and despite the losses in personnel, feels like the Lancers never missed a beat in the offseason.

"It feels like we’re picking up where we left off," he said. "It doesn’t feel like we’re starting over. We’re all flying and there’s good energy. We’ve had a big team and a lot of these guys have been playing together for years. They’re not new players. We’ve all been playing together for a while. We all like each other."

Londonderry is coming off one of its toughest defeats in recent years, missing out on a second-straight D1 title after falling 15-14 in the championship game to Bedford. That, along with a desire to continue the program's success, has fueled the Lancers going into the start of this year.

"We’re a very dedicated organization," senior Conor Williams said. "(Offseason work is) stuff our players like to do, too, it’s not just our coaches pushing us. Our kids, when they’re in other sports, they like to check in on football and get ready for that. Kids have been lifting and getting faster and stronger. This offseason was really big for us and we stepped it up a lot."

That is what Lauzon wants to hear. After the lineip turnover Londonderry is looking at for this year, being able to keep doing the things off the field that have led to the program's recent success is huge.

"That’s the goal, to be able to sustain that tradition," the coach said. "All it takes sometimes is one class to deteriorate that culture, to throw it off. My goal every year is to continue that and make sure they buy in to what we tell them to do. They study, they watch film, they come in with questions, they stay engaged."

The offseason response to the title-game loss reminds Lauzon of what it was like after the Lancers fell to Pinkerton in the first round of the playoffs in 2018\. Londonderry came back the following season to win the program's first title since 1996.

"We had a great class of kids who came up short to Pinkerton in the playoffs and we credit that loss to the state championship the following year," he said. "That group was extremely hungry. Now we have to work for this. Hopefully they’re self-motivated regardless, hopefully they want to continue that standard that we’ve set, the tradition that we’ve talked about."

As a senior, Williams understands that part is just as important as what Londonderry does each year on the field, and views this year as his opportunity help the Lancers continue their run of success in both areas.

"I just want to see all of the (underclassmen) I’ve been working with the past couple of months get to where I know they can all get," he said. "They’re hard workers, some of them just need to tune up some things football-wise. They’ll learn from the upperclassmen and our coaches. I want to keep the program going, year after year after year."