2023 Football Roster
Jersey Number 36
Ben Schultz
- Position:
- TE
- Class:
- Junior
- Height:
- 6-3
- Weight:
- 240
- Hometown:
- Champaign, Ill.
- High School:
- Central
 University of Illinois Graduate |
2023 Junior
- Academic All-Big Ten
- Played in 11 games, primarily on special teams
2022 Sophomore
- Academic All-Big Ten
- Played in three games, including the ReliaQuest Bowl
2021 Redshirt Freshman
- Academic All-Big Ten
- Did not play in a game
2020 Redshirt Freshman
- Did not play in a game
2019 Freshman
- Redshirted the 2019 season
- Joined team as a walk-on for training camp
High School
- Played for head coach Tim Turner at Champaign Central
- Three-year letterwinner
- Helped Central to the state playoffs as a senior
- Also participated in track and field in high school and played basketball for one year
- Sectional champion and ninth at the state meet in long jump
- National Honor Society and Honor Roll
Personal
- Born Jan. 6, 2001
- Son of Rob and Juli Schultz
- One brother, Grey, and one sister, Kendall
- Brother, Grey, played baseball at Illinois
- Picked Illinois because, “I have lived in champaign my whole life. I love the environment and the university.”
- Majoring in agribusiness markets and management
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