2020 Football Roster
Tyler Gillikin
- Height:
- 6-2
- Weight:
- 217
- Position:
- LS
- Class:
- Senior
- Hometown:
- Atlanta, Ga.
- High School:
- Westminster
2020: Appeared in all nine games during senior season... 2021 NFF Hampshire Honor Society (maintained a 3.2 cumulative GPA throughout career) ... Nominee for Patrick Manley Long snapper of the Year Award.
2019: Appeared in 11 games as the long snapper.
2018: Appeared in all 14 games as the long snapper in his sophomore season … Recorded tackles against Michigan and Ohio State (9/29 and 12/1) ... Academic All-Big Ten.
2017: Walk-on who won the starting long snapping job during training camp ... Went a perfect 67-for-67 on snaps to punter Hunter Niswander and 60-for-60 field goals and PAT attempts by kicker Charlie Kuhbander ... Named the Special Teams Player of the Week by the NU coaching staff following the Wisconsin game ... Academic All-Big Ten.
High School: Captained The Westminster Schools to the 2015 Georgia AAA State Championship ... First Team All-State Class AAA ... First Team All-Metro Atlanta ... Piled up 82 tackles and led the Wildcats with 23 tackles for loss, 6.5 sacks, five pass breakups and two forced fumbles as a senior ... Played both offense (tackle, tight end) and defense, earning Team Defensive Player of the Week honors four times, and Offensive Player of the Week laurels twice ... Helped lead the Wildcats to the 2014 Georgia AAA Semifinals ... Three-sport athlete also earned varsity letters in track (high jump) and basketball ... National Honor Society ... Honor Roll student ... AP Scholar.
Personal: Born Tyler Brent Gillikin in Atlanta ... Father, Walt, was a swimmer at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill ... Mother, Taryn, was an All-American swimmer at the University of Kansas ... Twin brother Blake is punter for Penn State ... Major is biological sciences.
