Australia: UNSW Raiders re-sign QB Clark Hazlett
The UNSW Raiders have announced the return of Clark Hazlett as their quarterback for the 2025 New South Wales season.
The 6’4″, 220-pound 28 year old native of Lynden, Washington is coming off an excellent season as quarterback coach of the Prague Lions where he helped the team to their best season ever in the European League of Football notching a 7-5 record and second place in the ELF East. He also stepped in briefly as quarterback for the Pforzheim Wilddogs in the German Football League.
He is returning to the Raiders after leading them to back-to-back Waratah Bowl championships in 2023 and 2024. The Raiders are currently first in the New South Wales division with a 2-0 record.
He arrived in Australia have spending a couple of seasons playing in Mexico with the Gallos Negros and the Tiburones de Cancún in the now defunct Fútbol Americano de México. He started the first three games of the season with the Tiburones and then was traded to the Tequileros de Jalisco where he played the final three games. In the five games he played, Hazlett had a 63% completion percentage, 1,166 passing yards, 12 passing touchdowns and six interceptions. He was also effective in the running game too, rushing for 161 yards on 23 attempts and a touchdown.
In 2021, he played quarterback and was the offensive coordinator for the Vysocina Gladiators of the Czech League of American Football. He guided the team to a 6-1 regular season record and then went on to the the Czech championship in Czech bowl XXVIII.
He started the 2020 Brazilian season (which runs from August to October) with the Timbó Rex in Brazil and stayed there for the next four months, but the season was cancelled before it would even begin due to COVID-19. He had spent the early part of 2020 playing for the Pionniers de Touraine in Tours, France. The team opened the season 5-0 with him behind center, but because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the season was cut short.
Hazlett played college football for Linfield University (NCAA Div. III) in McMinnville, Oregon from 2016-2019.
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