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2025 Catamount Football Roster

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41 Beady Waddell V

  • Position Linebacker
  • Height 6-0
  • Weight 215
  • Class Redshirt Freshman
  • Hometown Summerville, S.C.
  • High School West Mecklenburg (N.C.) HS

Biography

PRONUNCIATION: BEE-dee wad-DELL the Fifth

2024 (Freshman): Did not see game action, remaining eligible for a redshirt … Credited with six tackles, including one for loss in WCU’s annual Spring Game.

Prior to Western Carolina: South Carolina Lowcountry native, was a two-time all-conference and all-state performer at West Mecklenburg High in Charlotte … Finished the 2023 season second in the Queen City 3A/4A Conference with 872 rushing yards and was second defensively with 109 tackles … Three-sport athlete as a prep including football, wrestling, and track … Expected to enroll early in the spring 2024.

Personal: Is the son of Topee and Beady Waddell IV ... His father, a 2023 R.B. Stall Athletic Hall of Fame inductee, coached him in high school ... His uncle Bennitte "Big Moe" Waddell played for the Minnesota Vikings.

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2025

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Historical Player Information

  • 59

    2024Freshman

    Linebacker
    6'0" 215 lbs
    59
  • 41

    2025Redshirt Freshman

    Linebacker
    6'0" 215 lbs
    41