Returns as the starting right guard…named Most Improved Offensive Player last year...two-year letter winner in football and track and field while at Northfield High...earned Missota Conference all-conference honors in football...played on two Minnesota 4A State Tournament football teams that finished as state runner-ups in 2008 and reached the quarterfinals in 2009…also lettered five times in wrestling for the Raiders and qualified for the state wrestling tournament... brother of Norse sophomore defensive back Ryan...son of Dale and Rose Turnacliff.