Sometimes an athlete needs to lose weight to get into better playing shape. That wasn’t quite the case for University of Maine football linebacker Noah Carpenter from Greene.

Carpenter was a quarterback and a safety on his high school team at Leavitt Area High School in Turner. He is a former Gatorade Player of the Year and Fitzpatrick Trophy winner, which goes to the state’s top senior football player.

And he was a quarterback last season when he was a freshman at UMaine.

But last winter, the decision was made to switch him to linebacker. And that meant he needed to bulk up.

Carpenter explained how he entered his freshman year at 205 pounds and put on 25 in a short amount of time to get to 230.

“It was pretty hard. The first couple of months after I put on the weight, I felt really s

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