Norm Landrover

Norm Landrover is a current player for the in the  and formerly captain and coach for Springfield College.

Collegiate Footy
Norm was playing his footy at Springfield College, a program which he began at the institution for the fall of 2011. He captained and coached the side for the three seasons.

2011/12
In the first season, the club won it's opening match against rivals Wheaton (MA), the club lost five matches, three in conference, earning third seed in the New England Women's and Men's Conference. As the third seed, SC would go on to beat six seed Emerson in the elimination final, who they lost to earlier in the fixture. This followed with a win over second seeded Wheaton in the preliminary final. Fourth seed Babson lost to 5th seed MIT in the other elimination final and MIT subsequently beaten by the first place US Coast Guard Academy. Though Springfield was the victor during the season at home, they had to travel south to Coast Guard with the disadvantage of their cold seaside home in Connecticut. The two sides were fairly even throughout the match Because the conference grand final could not end in a draw, the sides had to settle it with a five minute extra time. The Pride kicked the opening minor score followed by a goal, but the Bears of Coast Guard surged with two straight followed by a pair of behinds to take the NEWMAC title. Despite their impressive opening performance, Springfield failed to get an at large bid to the NCAA national tournament.

2012/13
The second season saw improvement in which the side lost one less season match, both out of conference. As the fifth and six seeds respectively, Clark and WPI not only bumped out Emerson and Babson from the postseason spots, but also won their corresponding fixtures (over Coast Guard and Wheaton). Springfield, however cruised over WPI (having squeaked out of Worcester with a road win the previous two weeks to end the regular season). They awaited Coast Guard anticipating they'd do much the same, until Clark surged through the fourth quarter, nothing eight straight between three Coast guard kicks (one major and two behinds) three minutes in and 'til five minutes before the siren. By then the damage was done and the Cougars come out on top by two straight.

As the NEWMAC Grand Final came about Lando knew not to take Clark lightly. But continuing their momentum, the Cougars stormed out of the floodgates kicking 5 goals two to 3 behinds at quarter time. The Brock-Affleck Crowd was silenced and it appeared as though this would weaken the at large bid for nationals. Not five minutes into the second term, a very close play was signalled for a goal. But as Americanized as footy had gotten, Landrover (from the interchange area) threw his challenge flag (his only one for the quarter). He decided to challenge, because in fact, the videoboard clearly indicated that the ball had been touched by a Cougar player as the ball traveled towards goal. After a rather short review (as expected) the call stood (not as expected). Then beneath his gaze burned a quiet rage. He took the opportunity to gather his players while play had not yet restarted to get them into gear. Slowly but surely the Pride were clawing their way back kicking six of the last seven goals into halftime down 27. That pace continued as they took six of eight to get it down to just a behind by the three quarter time siren. After some back and forth early on, Clark got a pair of goals followed by three straight for SC to grab it's first lead. Momentum however was slowly shifting back to Clark, that was until a costly error just outside of the Clark forward fifty sent the Pride the other way. Lando tried to torp it from near the edge of the center square but instead shanked it for a mark by a teammate just inside of fifty for a goal. SC's lead was now ten and for the life of them, Clark couldn't get that next goal as SC successfully played keep away to win their first flag.

The first round saw Springfield host Hartwick College (of Oneonta, NY) in Erie, PA In their first national finals meeting, Springfield and Alleghany Mountain Collegiate Conference auto-bid Penn St. Behrend (the host institution) were fixed at Behrend in the second round having drawn in Springfield in season. Behrend had beaten Buffalo State College (Buffalo, NY) in their first match. In the previous fixture, Behrend could've won the match with a kick after the siren, but it missed to the left from the right side for a minor score and the draw. Sure not to have that kind of result again, Lando started a completely new full-forward line and two new forward flanks (none of those five were able to play in the aforementioned match). It was risky but payed off as the Pride built a nine goal cushion to go up 63 by halftime. The Lions were able to cut the margin to 24, but the damage had been done. The problem was, the club almost did the same as Behrend the following week, except down by six goals and losing by three kicks to Coe College of Cedar Rapids, IA (also at Behrend).

A Short Trip Downsatate
Lando's career began at Van Cortlandt Park with the midway through Season 18, with a win in his debut - a start against the  immediately following his signing by the club. He quickly became a voice in the clubhouse bringing a lot of enthusiasm. In their week 10 victory against the reigning premiers Won, Lando was one of five Warriors named to the side of the week by the SFA for booting his first point and not soon after his first major score. His first multiple goal game would come in the first quarter of the last week against in which he scored two goals and one behind. Continuing in his good run of form, Norm managed three goals following his personal opening behind all in the first quarter before sitting on the interchange bench for much of the second quarter to get a breather against the in the Elimination Final. He tacked on two first quarter goals in a semi finals loss to the. He finished the finals having kicked five goals one, adding to his home and away total of eight straight six.

During the off season, Lando's number was changed by the club board from 31 to 6.

Personal Life
Norm has graduated from Springfield with a bachelors of science in sport management. He has held a job as the public addreess announcer for Medaille College athletics since his graduation in the spring of 2014. ATV was also was honored by his high school at the end of his senior year for his dedication to its athletic department. Lando is also the founder of Buffalo Nickel Graphics, a sports design firm and the creator of the sport sphereball.