Blaise Sokach-minnick

2024 • REDSHIRT SOPHOMORE SEASON Awards: Earned Academic All-Big Ten honors. Season: Saw action in two games as a reserve long snapper. 2023 • REDSHIRT FRESHMAN SEASON Awards: Earned Academic All-Big Ten honors. Season: Appeared in two games as a reserve long snapper. 2022 • TRUE FRESHMAN SEASON Redshirt season. HIGH SCHOOL Four-year letterman for head coach Randy Spencer at Wyoming Area High School...Was a team captain his senior season...Team won a PA Class 3A state championship his sophomore season and three total Wyoming Valley Conference Division II championships...Was a first-team all-state long snapper his junior season...Named a WVC Division II All-Star first team selection on offense and honorable mention on defense as a senior...Picked up first-team honors from the WVC on defense his junior season...Completed 65-of-128 passes for 1,228 yards and 15 touchdowns his senior year while adding 45 carries for 95 yards and a score...On defense, made 23 tackles, five tackles for loss and four sacks...Logged 30 tackles, 7.5 tackles for loss, four sacks and an interception as a junior...Was also a four-year letterwinner in track and field, participating in the javelin, discus and shot put...Finished second at districts in the javelin in 2020...Was a National Honor Society member and an All-Academic Team Gold selection in 2020. PERSONAL Full name is Blaise Alexander Sokach-Minnick...Son of Mary Beth Sokach and Donnie Minnick...Has two brothers, Tristan and Stephen Sokach-Minnick...Both of his brothers played football at the University of Albany...Hobbies include fishing and video games...Is an Eagle Scout, was a member of student council and Key Club at his high school, and volunteered at a local church...Majoring in kinesiology...Would like to become an athletic trainer.