CAREER
All-Ivy League center … Saw action in 14 career games with eight starts at center.
2021
Second Team All-Ivy League selection as a senior offensive lineman … Earned Third Team All-Ivy League honors by Phil Steele Magazine … Earned the Jack Armstrong Outstanding Offensive Lineman of the Year award at team banquet … Earned NFF Hampshire Honor Society honors … Played and started in eight games at center … Started each of the season’s last seven games … Missed the Georgetown (Sept. 25) and Princeton (Oct. 2) games due to injury … Made first career start at center in season opener vs. Marist (Sept. 18) … Helped the offense hold opponents to a school-record low 12 sacks and 65 sacks yards on the year … Key contributor on the offensive line that held opponents to zero sacks in five games (Marist, Georgetown, Penn, Brown, at Cornell).
2020
Season canceled due to COVID pandemic.
2019
Saw action in six games as a sophomore offensive lineman … Listed as the backup center on the offensive depth chart … Also saw action on special teams … Saw action in six games: at Cornell (Nov. 23), Brown (Nov. 16), Harvard (Nov. 9), at Dartmouth (Oct. 25), Penn (Oct. 19) and Georgetown (Sept. 28).
2018
Did not see any action as a first-year offensive lineman … Contributed primarily on the scout team.
HIGH SCHOOL
A 2018 graduate of Cinco Ranch High School in Katy, Texas where he played three years of varsity football for Head Coach Don Clayton … Selected as a Padilla Poll coaches All-State Second Team member after his senior year … First Team Academic All-State selection … Named to the Vype Greater Houston All-Area team ... Three-time Academic All-District selection … Earned several team awards during his senior season including Brandon Burlsworth Character Award, Iron Cougar Award, Cougar Heart Award and Top Cougar Award … Named team captain as a senior … Started 36 career varsity games on the offensive line … Selected as Cinco Ranch Player of the Game four times as a senior and “Gold Jersey” winner 21 times during last two seasons … Led Cougars to an 8-2 overall record and 6-2 league record as a senior … Led team to state semifinals, bi-district, regional and area championships and 11-4 record as a junior … Invited to the U.S. Army All-American combine … Invited to the FBU “Top Gun” camp and selected as a top-5 offensive lineman in the camp … Also competed four years in track and field in the throws (shot put and discus) … Earned All-District honors in the throws during junior year … Named Most Improved award winner after junior year … Personal bests in the discus (153-0) and shot put (45-0) … Recognized as an AP Scholar With Distinction for success on AP tests … Member of National Honor Society, Spanish Honor Society and Science Honor Society … Auditioned and selected as a member of the Class 6A All-State Band ensemble … Invited to be a member of the Houston Youth Symphony Top Orchestra … Member of the TMEA 6A Region Orchestra and 6A All-Region band … Four-year participant in the state solo and ensemble competition … Active in the community … Honored as a member of CATS for community service (178 hours) .. Helped provide relief and rescue for victims affected by Hurricane Harvey … Worked with the football team to host a daycare/carnival style fun event for kids … Works through his church leading and mentoring a high school group and special needs ministry … Helped build structures at a sex-trafficking refuge for women … Volunteered with Just Ride for a Just Cause, a charity bike event, Houston Food Bank, Katy Supplies, Clothing and Food Bank, served as a camp counselor and worked on several mission trips.
PERSONAL
Born Tyler Ko Worrell on December 31, 1999 in Katy, Texas … Son of Darren and Karen Worrell … Has a sister Haylee … Father played football at Arkansas (1985-90) where he was a four-year letterman and helped the Razorbacks to a 38-7 record (20-2 over last two years), two Southwest Conference titles and played in two Cotton Bowls, Orange Bowl, Liberty Bowl and Holiday Bowl … Parents own a translation and interpreting business … Played at same high school as Ben Mathiasmeier … Hobbies and interests include hunting, fishing, ultimate Frisbee, band, orchestra, church and rock climbing … Plays the clarinet … Chose Columbia because it is the best of both worlds with an unmatched campus, academics, professors, people, coaches, football program and is located in the greatest city on earth … Selected Columbia over offers from Air Force, Rice, Tulane, Trinity, Yale, Cornell and Penn … Enrolled at Columbia College … Majors in Economics.
ARTICLES
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