In the fall of 2009, David Caputi will enter his tenth season as
the head coach of the Bowdoin football team. Hired in the spring of
2000 as the 28th coach in the storied history of the program,
Caputi has led a rebuilding effort that has seen the Polar Bears
become one of the most competitive teams in the New England Small
College Athletic Conference.
In 2005, Bowdoin earned a third-place finish in the NESCAC with
victories over Amherst, Middlebury, Tufts, Hamilton, Wesleyan and
Bates. Four Polar Bears earned All-Conference selections in 2005,
and 23 players have collected All-NESCAC honors under Caputi. In
addition, several of Caputi's players have been recognized as
Academic All-NESCAC, by the National Strength and Conditioning
Association, the National Football Foundation and the Gridiron Club
of Greater Boston. In 2006 and '07 the Polar Bears claimed
consecutive C-B-B (Colby-Bates-Bowdoin) Championships for the first
time in a decade.
Caputi joined the Bowdoin athletic staff after serving as the
offensive coordinator for Williams College -- a fellow member of
the New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC). In his
13 years at Williams, the Ephs compiled a 88-13-3 record with four
undefeated seasons. Before joining Williams, Caputi served as the
quarterbacks and secondary coach for Tufts University from 1985 to
1986. In his two seasons at Tufts, the football team transformed
from an 0-7-1 squad the year before he arrived to 7-1 in his second
season. In 1986, the Jumbos were voted the top-ranked Division III
football team in New England.
After a year of assistant coaching for Fitchburg (Mass.) High
School, Caputi earned his first collegiate coaching experience at
Amherst College as a receivers coach and scouting coordinator in
1982. After a brief stint in the business world in 1983-84, Caputi
returned to coaching -- again with Amherst -- as an offensive
backfield and receivers coach, helping the Lord Jeffs notch a
perfect 8-0 season in 1984.
Caputi graduated from Middlebury College in 1981 with a Bachelor
of Arts in American history. On the gridiron, he was the starting
quarterback for a Panthers squad that finished the 1980 season with
a 6-1-1 record. In 1994, Caputi received his Master's Degree in
Education from North Adams State (Mass.) College.
Caputi is married to Elizabeth Connolly Caputi and they have four
children -- David, Marguerite, Lydia and Claire. For more
information about the Bowdoin football team, contact Head Coach
Caputi at dcaputi@bowdoin.edu
Radulski will begin his tenth season with Bowdoin. He is the
director of football operations and coach of the linebackers for
the Polar Bears.
A football coach for over 30 years, Radulski has an extensive
background in the sport. Before coming to Bowdoin, Radulski was the
head coach for Sacred Heart (Conn.) University starting in 1997.
Prior to his work with the Pioneers, Radulski was the first
full-time head coach at UMass-Lowell. A graduate of the University
of New Hampshire, Radulski has also coached at Hamilton, Colby,
UNH, Columbia and Allegheny. Radulski and his wife Paula reside in
Brunswick with their children.
Sullivan enters his ninth year as Bowdoin’s offensive line
coach. Sullivan is a native of Hubbarston, Mass. He led a unit that
helped Bowdoin maintain the third-best rushing attack in the league
last fall.
An alum of Middlebury College, he was captain of the football team
and was as assistant coach after graduation. Sullivan also coached
for two years at Georgetown before becoming the head coach at
Quabbin Regional and then Weston High School in Massachusetts.
Sullivan also coaches Softball at Bowdoin, and in 2007 led the
Polar Bears to a school-record 26 victories. He and his wife Carrie
reside in Brunswick with their daughters Shea, Kelsey and Elyse.
Shukie begins his fourth season with the Polar Bears and will
head up the wide receiver corps this fall. Under his tutelage, the
stalwart corps accumulated 1,785 yards last season to stand among
the leaders in the NESCAC.
He came to Bowdoin following stints at Johns Hopkins and
King’s College. A 2005 graduate of Johns Hopkins,
Shukie’s playing career was cut short due to injuries, but he
took up assistant coaching duties for the Blue Jays, who captured
three Centennial Conference Championships during his tenure.
A native of West Hartford, Connecticut, Shukie’s older
brother John ‘99 played football for Bowdoin.
Powers, a 2006 graduate of Bowdoin, begins his fourth season on
the Polar Bear coaching staff. He led an impressive group last year
that ranked second in the league in pass defense.
Powers was a two-sport athlete at Bowdoin, and was a special-teams
standout as a senior in 2005. He left his mark on the baseball
diamond as well, becoming the winningest pitcher in school history
by going 21-8 with a 3.68 career ERA. He twice captained the
baseball team and earned Bowdoin’s Frederick G.P. Thorne
Award for Outstanding Leadership by a Male Athlete.
A government major at Bowdoin, Powers was a finalist for the
Fitzpatrick Award while attending Cheverus High School in Portland.
Mickey Rehring comes to Brunswick from Franklin & Marshall
College and will coach the defensive line this fall. A four-year
starter and All-Centennial Conference performer for the Diplomats,
he graduated in 2008 with a degree in Psychology.
Last year, as a coach for Franklin & Marshall, he led the
defensive line unit and held additional responsibilities in
recruiting and strength and conditioning. A native of the Keystone
State, Rehring attended State College Area High School.
Ben Larkins joins the football staff after closing out an
All-Conference career on the Polar Bear offensive line. A captain
in 2008 hailing from Acton, Mass., Larkins was named First-Team
All-NESCAC as a senior and graduated last spring with a degree in
Economics. He will serve as running backs coach in 2009.
Sean Welch, who served as a student assistant during his senior
year last fall, will join the staff full-time as assistant coach of
the defensive backs. The Ramsey, N.J. native was a three-year
contributor at defensive back for the Polar Bears who graduated
with an Economics degree last May.
Brad Wasilition joins the Bowdoin football coaching staff on a
volunteer basis for the 2009 campaign. A 2004 graduate of the
University of Virginia, he earned a Master's and MBA at
UMass-Amherst in 2007. He has an extensive background in football,
interning for the Nashville Kats of the Arena Football League in
2004-05 before working in in the front office for the Tennessee
Titans in 2007-08.