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Curt Fitzpatrick

Curt Fitzpatrick

  • Title
    Fred '50 and Marilyn Dunlap Head Football Coach
    Recruits: New York Sec 3/4/10, Alaska, Hawaii, and Colorado
  • Email
    colgatefootball@colgate.edu
  • Alma Mater
    St. John Fisher '04
An experienced leader with proven success on and off the field, Curt Fitzpatrick was named Colgate University’s next Fred ’50 and Marilyn Dunlap Head Football Coach in December of 2024.

Fitzpatrick becomes the 31st head coach in Colgate football history, and he heads to Hamilton after most recently leading Division III Cortland to a 45-5 record in four seasons at the helm. The 2023 Division III National Coach of the Year guided Cortland to a national championship in 2023 in addition to four consecutive Empire 8 titles.

Fitzpatrick’s offense broke four school records during the 2023 title run, logging 46.2 points and 509.2 offensive yards per game in addition to 4,265 passing yards and 3,373 rushing yards on the season. 

The national-title team broke program records that were originally set in each of Fitzpatrick’s first two years at Cortland, where he rolled the Red Dragons to a 20-3 combined record. The Fulton, N.Y., native made the playoffs every season with Cortland and never finished with more than two losses in a campaign. 

Prior to Cortland, Fitzpatrick spent seven years as the head coach at Morrisville State where the program accumulated 35 victories. The 2014 D3football.com East Region Coach of the Year helped the Mustangs to four winning seasons, three postseason appearances and a conference championship. 

Fitzpatrick’s 2014 New Jersey Athletic Conference winners were the first Morrisville State squad to claim a league title since joining NCAA Division III, also becoming the first team in program history to win the ECAC North Central Bowl. 

Over the course of his tenure with the Mustangs, Fitzpatrick mentored three quarterbacks voted conference Offensive Player of the Year, 49 student-athletes on All-League teams, and 61 players on the athletic director honor roll. 

Fitzpatrick’s collegiate coaching career began at his alma mater, St. John Fisher, as a quarterbacks coach from 2006-2007 before moving on to an offensive coordinator role with Utica College from 2008-2012. 

His addition of the accountability program at Utica aided in the selection of 16 All-Conference players on offense, including three D3football.com All-East Region student-athletes. 

At St. John Fisher, Fitzpatrick’s quarterbacks racked up 5,300 passing yards and 55 touchdowns in just two seasons. Behind the potent aerial attack, the Cardinals amassed a 23-4 combined record which paved the way to a final four appearance in 2006 and an elite eight finish in 2007. 

Following his 2004 graduation from St. John Fisher with a bachelor’s degree in management, Fitzpatrick returned home to coach at Fulton High School where they were crowned OHSL Class A League champions in 2005.