KAMRYN MOLTON
Just about a year ago, Kamryn Molton remembers laying on the turf at Georgetown’s Cooper Field, unable to feel his leg. While the athletic training staff and team doctors tended to that leg, head coach Bob Chesney hunched near Molton’s head, attempting to assuage his concerns. Imagine you’re at the beach right now, Molton recalls him saying. Imagine your favorite place in the whole world, that’s where you are right now.
Molton didn’t fall for it — he knew something clearly was bad, so he lifted his head to look down at his leg, and Chesney immediately pushed his head back down — he didn’t need to look at it. But when the medical staff put an air cast on his leg, Molton looked at the Crusaders’ athletic trainer, Alicia Caswell, and asked her: “Am I being dramatic?”
“You’re not being dramatic, Kam,” she responded. “You broke your leg.”
Molton was carted off the field, surrounded by his doting teammates. A short while later, Holy Cross celebrated an undefeated 11-0 regular season — its first since 1991 — while Molton was sent to a nearby Washington, D.C. hospital.
The following morning, he underwent successful surgery to repair a clean break in both his tibia and fibula. After a few days in the hospital, he returned home and spent the following days on bed rest, away from his teammates, though he was able to return and watch the Crusaders’ playoff games from the sidelines. In the ensuing months, between time spent on crutches, a walking boot and in the rehabilitation process, he’s essentially had to re-learn to walk, and build all the muscle back in that leg.
Fast forward to 2023, and Molton’s season hasn’t necessarily been a perfect, storybook comeback. A fifth-year defensive back on a youthful Crusader defense, his role this season has been somewhat hampered by his injury.
“It was disheartening and frustrating, especially for the first couple of weeks,” he said. “I just wanted to play out there so badly, but I couldn't, because every time I tried to cut a certain way, my leg would just hurt too much.”
As the middle child of the tight-knit Molton family, Molton’s parents are his heroes, and he speaks with them almost daily on the phone.
“Everything I want to do,” Molton said, “is to make them proud.”
But early into his fifth season, when things weren’t going as he had hoped, a conversation with his mother, Karmesha, helped to overhaul his perspective on his injury.
“My mom said — you broke your leg in half, it's a blessing that you're even still running around the way you are today,” Molton said. “Since then, I've really flipped my mindset and stopped being sad for myself, and started just realizing, how can I make the most out of my last season here at Holy Cross? If I'm not playing as much, how can I still add value to the team? How can I help the other guys on the team?
“My role now is really just adding value wherever I can, whether it be special teams, or adding with my experience and my knowledge of the game — that’s my biggest role, is being in that mentor role for a lot of the young guys on the defense.”
Molton is always willing to share his wisdom and have a conversation — whether that’s about football, or perhaps his greatest passion, music (he spends about “80 percent” of his day talking about music, according to him). He’s friendly, funny — the type of guy who can get along with anyone.
And he’s had his share of highlights throughout his career. He points to a 45-yard pick-six in 2021 against Bucknell as a personal favorite memory.
Molton knew he would be a football player just his second year into playing the sport — he fondly remembers leaping over someone to catch a ball, and running 40 more yards for the touchdown. That instilled that for him, there’s nothing more rewarding than that feeling you get after a big play, a big moment, a big win with your teammates.
“Just that feeling you get when you make a play, or win a big game, is like no other feeling,” he said. “There's nothing else that compares to getting a pick-six, and hearing the crowd go wild — that feeling you get inside you, it's a special kind of excitement that only football can give you. You can’t really get it anywhere else.”
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