2024 Football Roster
Jersey Number 37
Sage Luther
- Position:
- DB
- Class:
- Senior
- Height:
- 5-10
- Weight:
- 195
- Major:
- Strategic Leadership & Management
- Hometown:
- Austin, Texas
- High School:
- Westlake
- Prev School:
- Colgate
2023 Junior - Colgate
- Played in 11 games at defensive back
- 34 tackles (21 solo) and 1.5 tackles for losses of 14 yards, including a 13-yard sack, on the season
- Tied his career high with seven tackles against Bucknell (Oct. 28)
- Six tackles (four solo) and broke up a pass at Cornell (Sept. 30)
- Three unassisted tackles each in games against Penn (Sept. 16), Dartmouth (Oct. 14) and Lehigh (Nov. 11)
- Pass breakups at Villanova (Sept. 9), Holy Cross (Sept. 23), Cornell and Lehigh
2022 Sophomore - Colgate
- Played in eight games at defensive back
- Totaled 34 tackles with 21 solo stops
- Made seven tackles against Army (Oct. 15)
- Ended the season with six tackles (five solo) at Fordham (Nov. 19)
2021 Redshirt Freshman - Colgate
- Played in seven games at defensive back
- Totaled three tackles with two solo stops
- Made Colgate debut with an assisted tackle in a win over Lehigh (Sept. 25)
- Played in the final six games of the season
- Recorded single solo tackles in games at Cornell (Oct. 15) and vs. Bucknell (Oct. 30)
2020-21 Freshman - Colgate
- Did not see game action and redshirted the season
High School
- Played for head coach Todd Dodge at Westlake
- Three-year letterwinner
- 2019 TSWA All-State First Team
- Two-time All-Centex Second Team
- Two-time All-District First Team
- 2017 District Newcomer of the Year
- Team MVP
- Holds Westlake program record with 11 career interceptions
- Totaled 261 solo tackles and 390 total tackles during his high school career
Personal
- Born Nov. 22, 2001
- Son of Mark Luther and Whitney Hedgepeth
- Mother, Whitney, swam in the 1988 and 1996 Summer Olympic Games, earning two gold medals and one silver medal in 1996
- One brother, Payton, and one sister, Dakota
- Sister, Dakota, swam at Georgia for four years and Texas for one year
- Chose Illinois because, “I want to be a part of a historical and winning culture.”
- Majoring in strategic leadership and management
- Majored in sociology at Colgate
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