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Illinois Fighting Illini

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
  • Instagram Sageluther29
  • Twitter Sageluther291

Biography

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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