CAREER
Played in 22 career games with nine starts at quarterback … In career, completed 60 percent of his passes (203-341) for 2,081 yards, nine touchdowns and 11 interceptions, rushed for 220 career yards on 120 carries and 12 touchdowns … Totaled 2,301 total offensive yards (2,081 passing, 220 rushing) in 22 games … Also responsible for 21 career touchdowns (12 rushing, nine passing) … Led Columbia to a 4-5 record in nine career starts … Four career 200-yard passing games … Two-year letterman.
2021
Saw action in three games as a senior quarterback … Rushed for three touchdowns on six carries for 18 yards and completed 2-6 passes for 25 yards with a long of 23 yards …. Completed 1-1 pass for 23 yards at Princeton (Oct. 2) … Scored 18 points (three touchdowns) on the year … Scored a career-high three touchdowns on five carries and 18 yards, completed 1-4 passes vs. Georgetown (Sept. 25) … Saw action vs. Marist (Sept. 18).
2020
Season canceled due to COVID pandemic.
2019
Saw action in all 10 games including six starts as a sophomore quarterback … Entered the season as the backup quarterback but started each of the last six consecutive games … CoSIDa Academic All-District nominee … Named the John Toner Homecoming Player of the Game after his performance vs. Penn … Led the Lions to a 2-4 record as the starting quarterback … Led the Lions in total offense (193 rushing, 1,278 passing) with 1,471 yards on the year … Completed 60.5 percent of his passes (127 of 210) for 1,278 yards, eight touchdowns and threw six interceptions on the year … Averaged 127.8 yards passing per game and finished with a 118.45 pass efficiency rating … Also ranked No. 2 on the team in rushing with 193 yards on 74 attempts with three touchdowns for a 2.6 average per carry … Ranked among Ivy League leaders in several statistics: total offense (No. 7), passing yards per game (No. 7), and pass efficiency rating (118.3) … Has thrown a touchdown pass in each of the last six games … Threw for 200 or more yards two times on the year including each of the last two games … Threw for 215 yards, tied career-highs for receptions (28) and attempts (42) with one touchdown and rushed for 13 yards in season finale at Cornell (Nov. 23) … Threw for a season-highs of 225 yards and two touchdowns, completed 14 of 27 passes and rushed for 24 yards vs. Brown (Nov. 16) … Led the Lions with 255 total offensive yards, completed 69 percent of his passes (18-26) for 155 yards and a touchdown, rushed for 50 yards on a career-high 19 carries in win over Harvard (Nov. 9) … Threw for 165 yards, completed 17 of 38 passes with a touchdown at Yale (Nov. 2) … Completed 67 percent (22-33) of passes for 190 yards and a career-high tying two touchdown passes at Dartmouth (Oct. 25) … In first start of the season, named Columbia’s John Toner Homecoming Player of the Game after he combined for 253 total offensive yards, led the Lions with a career-high 95 rushing yards and two touchdowns on 11 carries with a long carry of 29 yards and completed 70 percent (14-20) of his passes for 158 yards and one touchdown in win over Penn (Oct. 19) … Completed 3-7 passes for 22 yards in backup role vs. Central Connecticut State (Oct. 12) … Completed 5-8 passes for 52 yards, rushed for five yards vs. Georgetown (Sept. 28) … In season opener off the bench, completed 5-8 passes for 91 yards, rushed for a touchdown and 11 yards on five carries and completed a 61-yard pass to Ronald Smith at Saint Francis, Pa. (Sept. 21).
2018
Earned the team’s Ken Germann Freshman of the Year Award at team banquet … Saw action in nine games with three starts as a first-year quarterback … In games started, Columbia finished 2-1 … Threw for 778 yards, a touchdown and completed 59.2 percent of passes (74-125) for an 86.4 yards per game average, rushed for six touchdowns and nine yards on 40 carries … Ranked among Ivy League leaders in total offense (No. 10, 87.4 per game), passing average per game (No. 7, 86.4) and pass efficiency (No. 8, 106.1) … Led Lions with six touchdowns rushing, total offense (787 yards), yards passing (778) and completions (74) and ranked second on the squad in scoring (36 points) … His 59.2 completion percentage ranks No. 6 among top marks for a season at Columbia … Scored career-high two touchdowns in two different games (Marist, at CCSU) … Set school first-year season records in five statistical categories: passing yards (778), completions (74), attempts (125), completion percentage (59.5) and total offense (787) … Set school game first-year records in three statistical categories: passing yards (298 at Brown), attempts (42 at Brown) and completion percentage (65.7 vs. Dartmouth) … Completed 12 of 25 passes for 159 yards and a long of 34 in final game of the year vs. Cornell (Nov. 17) … Completed a career-high and first-year record 28 of 42 passes for a career-high and first-year record 298 yards with a long of 48 yards in win at Brown (Nov. 10) … In first career start, completed 20 of 39 passes for 203 yards and one touchdown with a long of 49 yards at Harvard (Nov. 3) … Tied a school-record for highest completion percentage in a game (85.7 percent), completed 12-14 passes for 97 yards and a touchdown and caught a pass for 12 yards vs. Dartmouth (Oct. 20) … Rushed for a career-high two touchdowns vs. Marist (Oct. 6) … Rushed for touchdown, completed first career pass, 2-3 for 21 yards vs. Princeton (Sept. 28) … Rushed for touchdown at Georgetown (Sept. 23) … Rushed for two touchdowns in first career game action in season opener at Central Connecticut State (Sept. 15).
HIGH SCHOOL
A 2018 graduate of DeMatha Catholic High School in Washington, D.C. where he played four years of varsity football for Head Coach Elijah Brooks … Voted team captain as a senior … Helped lead the Stags to three straight Washington Catholic Athletic Conference titles … Despite suffering injuries, threw for 702 yards and six touchdowns, completed 42 of 82 passes with a long of 74 yards in five games played as a senior … Injured in the season’s second game … Opened 2017 season on ESPN as DeMatha traveled to Las Vegas to play Bishop Gorman and threw for 268 yards and two touchdowns while completing 11 of 23 passes in a loss … Started one game as a junior in win over Bishop McNamara where he completed seven of 11 passes for 161 yards, threw for two touchdowns and rushed for another in win … Served as backup for three years for the Stags … Also played two years of lacrosse as a midfielder … Member of the National Honor Society … Four-year Principal’s Honor Roll student … Involved in a variety of community service activities including a service trip to Camden, N.J., a retirement home near his high school, a kitchen for the homeless in Washington DC and is actively involved in his church with its youth programs.
PERSONAL
Born Tyler Harrison Lenhart on January 31, 2000 … Son of Todd and Jen Lenhart … Has three sisters: Livy, Ellie and Halle … Both parents attended Penn State and he has attended Penn State football games his whole life … Father played golf at Penn State from 1989-93 … Hobbies and interests include fishing, hunting, boating and all watersports including water skiing and wakeboarding … Favorite sports memory was playing on ESPN against Bishop Gorman in Las Vegas … Played at DeMatha behind All-America and current BYU quarterback Beau English … One of his favorite hobbies is sharkfishing in Hilton Head, S.C. and once caught a nine-foot bull shark … Selected Columbia to obtain an amazing degree, build relationships with a broad spectrum of people and play college football at the highest level in the Ivy League … Also the standard of academic success, the upward trend of the football program and quality of people he met at Columbia were also important factors … Chose Columbia over Bucknell, Harvard and Cornell and interest from Penn State, Pittsburgh, Virginia Tech, Boston College, Indiana and Northwestern … Enrolled at Columbia College … Majors in Political Science.
ARTICLES
http://demathastagline.com/627/sports/profile-ty-lenhart/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/recruiting-insider/wp/2017/07/12/dematha-2018-qb-ty-lenhart-is-on-the-cusp-of-a-recruiting-breakthrough/?utm_term=.65697639ce14
http://hyattsvillelife.com/new-quarterbacks-to-lead-dematha-bishop-gorman-as-teams-tangle-tonight-on-espn/
