With North Dakota opening the 2022 season in 11 days, the Fighting Hawks announced team captains for the 2022 football season. As voted by their peers, Garett Maag, Donny Ventrelli, Devon Krzanowski, C.J. Siegel and Ted Mullin were named captains on Tuesday.
Maag was a team captain during both the 2020-21 and 2021 seasons and is the lone return captain from last season. Maag has appeared in 38 games as a Fighting Hawk with 29 starts. In the UND Division I record books, Maag sits fourth in career receptions (123), fourth in career receiving yards (1,665) and third in touchdown receptions (14). In 2021, Maag started nine games at wide receiver and finished the season fifth on the team in receptions with 21 catches for 266 yards, while also averaging 12.67 yards per catch and 29.56 yards per game to rank fourth on the team in those categories. Maag produced two touchdown receptions in 2021 and earned the MVFC Commissioner’s Academic Excellence Award. Coming into 2022, Maag received recognition as a fourth team wide receiver on the Phil Steele Preseason All-MVFC Team and was UND’s nomination for the AFCA Allstate Good Works Team.
Ventrelli has saw action in 28 contests for UND, starting 26 of them on the offensive line. He played a key role for North Dakota’s success last season, starting all 11 games and helping the Fighting Hawks rack up 1,793 yards on the ground and 2,641 yards through the air for 33 touchdowns on the season. Last year, UND ranked at the top of the conference in fewest negative plays and only allowed eight sacks the entire season. Coming into this year, Ventrelli earned accolades as a second team offensive lineman on both the Preseason All-MVFC Team and the Phil Steele Preseason All-MVFC Team.
Krzanowski has appeared in and started all 18 games at linebacker for UND after transferring from St. Cloud State. Last season, he led North Dakota with 68 total tackles (35 solo, 33 assisted) and was second on the team in tackles-for-loss with five for -17 yards. He finished the season with 1.5 sacks for -11 yards and piled up five or more tackles in eight contests. He finished the year as the No. 18 tackler in the MVFC and garnered All-MVFC Honorable Mention accolades. Krzanowski has a nose for the football and has found the endzone twice as a Hawk, both coming against Southern Illinois, once in 2020-21 and again in 2021. Entering the 2022 season, Krzanowski is high on watchlists, already being named a second team linebacker on both the Preseason All-MVFC Team and Phil Steele Preseason All-MVFC Team.
Siegel has 28 starts at defensive back as a Fighting Hawk and has appeared in 32 contests. In North Dakota’s Division I record books, Siegel ranks tied for ninth in pass breakups (16) and tied for 10th in career interceptions (3). Last season, he saw action in all 11 games with 10 starts at defensive back, piling up 28 total tackles and ranking third on the team in sacks with two for -17 yards. One of his three career interceptions came at Utah State early in the season. Coming into 2022, Siegel is ranked as a second team defensive back on both the Preseason All-MVFC Team and Phil Steele Preseason All-MVFC Team. Over the summer, Siegel was ranked as the No. 24 cornerback in the MVFC by Hero Sports entering this fall.
Mullin has been a special team’s standout in his career and has appeared in 23 contests at UND. Last season, he saw action in 10 games as a linebacker and special teams’ contributor, putting down 11 tackles and a quarterback hurry. In 2020-21, he appeared in seven games, primarily on special teams, and had two tackles, a tackle-for-loss and his first collegiate sack in the win over No. 24 Southern Illinois.
North Dakota will open the season at Nebraska on Sept. 3 at 2:30 p.m.
(UND Athletics)
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