Entering his 25th season as a member of the coaching staff in 2025, former SCSU offensive lineman Lenny Bonn handles the team’s running backs and is the Special Teams Coordinator.
He rejoined the Owls in 2002 after a 14-year stint as head football coach at Branford (Conn.) High School. The Hornets were a formidable club in first the Housatonic League and later, the Southern Connecticut Conference, on an annual basis.
Bonn sent numerous players on to the collegiate ranks, including Connecticut State Player of the Year Remo Guarnieri, who moved on to become a team captain at Villanova.
Equally as impressive was the fact that Bonn produced numerous National Football Foundation Scholar-Athlete honorees.
Prior to taking over at Branford, Bonn was an assistant coach at Notre Dame of West Haven from 1977-88.
He started his coaching career at SCSU, spending two years as a graduate assistant from 1976-77.
Bonn, who suited up for the Owls from 1972-75, earned both his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from SCSU.
He resides in East Haven with his wife, the former Kathy Kadish, a recent retiree from Notre Dame of West Haven and current adjunct professor at SCSU. The couple has three children -- Aimee, a Guidance Counselor at Branford High, Brendan, a Nichols College graduate who is currently a teacher in Milton (Mass.), and Kelianna, a Merrimack College graduate and is a counselor at Foran High School in Milford, Conn.
Bonn recently retired after 40 years as a Guidance Counselor at Walsh Intermediate School in Branford, Conn.
