2024 Football Roster
Jersey Number 93
Henry Engel
- Position:
- DL
- Class:
- Redshirt Freshman
- Height:
- 6-2
- Weight:
- 295
- Major:
- Mechanical Engineering
- Hometown:
- Lena, Ill.
- High School:
- Lena-Winslow
Pronunciation: EN-gull
2023 Redshirt Freshman
- Did not play in a game
2023 Freshman
- Did not play in a game and redshirted the season
High School
- Played for head coach Rick Arand at Lena-Winslow High School
- Three-year letter winner in football (2020-22)
- Won three consecutive state championships (2019, 2021 and 2022)
- Earned all-conference, all-area, and all-state honors as a senior in 2022
- Selected as a 2022 second-team small school All-American
- Lettered four seasons in wrestling (2019-22) and three years in track & field (2020-22)
- Qualified for the state wrestling tournament as a senior in 2022
- Placed seventh at the state track & field meet in the shot put as a senior
- Earned recognition as an Illinois State Scholar
- Tabbed as academic all-conference, academic all-state, and named to the Presidential Honor Roll
Personal
- Born on Sept. 4, 2004
- Son of Ryan and Tabitha Engel
- One sister, Emily
- Chose Illinois because, “The place felt like home and the people felt like FamILLy right from the get-go."
- Majoring in mechanical engineering
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