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Notre Dame Preparatory School senior and Loyola Blakefield football manager, Campbell Diffendall, dreams of being an NFL team general manager. (Kevin J. Parks/CR Staff)

NDP student tackles expansive role as manager for Loyola Blakefield football team

By Gerry Jackson, Catholic Review

TOWSON – When Campbell Diffendall developed a passion for football as an eighth-grader at The School of the Cathedral of Mary Our Queen in Homeland, she wanted to be a “little different.”

Since then, that difference has reached way beyond rooting for the Pittsburgh Steelers in a Baltimore Ravens town.

A Loyola Blakefield coach watches an aerial view of the players as Notre Dame Preparatory School senior Campbell Diffendall, the team’s manager, flies a drone over the practice field which will provide film for coaches to review following their Oct. 9, 2024, practice in Towson. (Kevin J. Parks/CR Staff)

Diffendall, an 18-year-old senior at the all-girls Notre Dame Preparatory School in Towson, is serving as a manager for the varsity football team at Loyola Blakefield. She is believed to be the first female football manager at the all-boys school in Towson.

Five days a week during the fall for the past three years, Diffendall FINISH READING HERE

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