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2021 MIT Football Roster

49 Ben Wolz

  • Position DL
  • Height 6-3
  • Weight 225
  • Class Senior
  • Hometown College Station, Texas
  • High School College Station

Biography

2021:
- Appeared in one game
- NEWMAC Academic All-Conference
- National Football Foundation Hampshire Honor Society

2020:
- NEWMAC Academic All-Conference
- Did not play as the season was cancelled due to the Covid-19 pandemic

2019:
- NEWMAC Academic All-Conference
- NEWMAC Defensive Athlete of the Week (Nov. 18)
- Appeared in six games with 29 total tackles, including 18 assisted stops
- Added 2.5 tackles for loss and one sack
- Posted a season-high 14 tackles at Springfield on 11/16

2018:
- Appeared in all 11 games with 51 total tackles
- Led the team with 11.5 tackles for loss of 64 yards to go with four sacks, two forced fumbles and five quarterback hurries
- Had a season-high nine tackles and two sacks vs. Springfield as the team won the NEWMAC Championship

Favorite Sports Memory:
- Winning State at Cowboys Stadium and winning defensive MVP in the state championship game my senior year

Favorite Memory as an MIT Student-Athlete:
- Watching the NCAA selection show and freaking out when MIT would get picked for the playoffs (back-to-back)

Off the Field at MIT:
- Majoring in computer science
- Member of Sigma Chi fraternity
- Interned at Optum in 2020
- Interned at Palantir SWE
- Chair of the UA Committee on Education
- PLEASURE Educator
- Ring Committee member for Class of 2022
- Bioinformatics researcher at the Texas A&M College of Veterinary Medicine and Computational Chemistry
- UROP in Cybersecurity Space

Prior to MIT:
- Two-year letter winner in football and a three-year letter winner in powerlifting at College Station High School
- 5A State Champions in football
- State Championship Defensive MVP
- Team captain
- Academic All-State Elite Team
- All-District Second Team
- Member of the National Honor Society
- Principle Bassist in the CSHS Orchestra as a junior and senior
- Texas Boys State House of Representatives
- All A Honor Roll, AP Scholar with Honor and a National Merit Commended Scholar
- KBTX Classroom Champion

Statistics

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Historical Player Information

  • 49

    2018First Year

    DL
    6'3" 220 lbs
    49
  • 49

    2019Sophomore

    DL
    6'3" 220 lbs
    49
  • 49

    2020Junior

    DL
    6'3" 220 lbs
    49
  • 49

    2021Senior

    DL
    6'3" 225 lbs
    49