Dylan Steven Geick (born September 9, 1998) is an American social media personality, writer, and amateur wrestler. He speaks on his experience as an LGBTQ person in athletics and the army. Geick wrestled for the Columbia Lions from 2017 to 2018. Geick served in the United States Army for a brief period of just over one year, before leaving.
Dylan S. Geick | |||||||
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| Born | September 9, 1998 | ||||||
| Education | Adlai E. Stevenson High School Columbia University (no degree) | ||||||
| Occupation(s) | Social media personality, writer | ||||||
YouTube information | |||||||
| Channels | Dylan Geick | ||||||
| Years active | 2017–present | ||||||
| Subscribers | 193,000 | ||||||
| Total views | 5.4 million | ||||||
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Last updated: 26 October 2022 | |||||||
Life and career
editGeick was born on September 9, 1998, in Buffalo Grove, Illinois.[1] At Stevenson High School,[2] Geick was a three-time member of the Illinois Freestyle national team and came in 4th in 152 lb and 160 lb weight divisions at the Illinois High School Sports Association state Championships 2 years in a row. In 2017, Geick self-published Early Works: A Collection of Poetry.[3][4][5] He is a YouTuber and speaks on his experience as an out LGBT athlete and Internet celebrity.[6][7][8][2] For a time Geick was involved in a relationship with fellow YouTuber and internet celebrity Jackson Krecioch.[5] In 2019, Geick helped advise the National Collegiate Athletic Association on its compensation policy.[9]
After his 2017 graduation from Stevenson, Geick went to Columbia University. Shortly after committing to attend, a series of homophobic, sexist, and racist comments surfaced in the wrestling team's GroupMe. The coach, Zach Tanelli, reached out to Geick to condemn the comments.[10] Geick joined the Columbia Lions wrestling team and studied English. In late 2019, Geick went on leave from the school and enlisted in the United States Army.[9] In a March 2021 interview, Geick shared that he was discharging from the military in a few weeks.[11]
As of March 2021[update], Geick had 678,000 followers on Instagram, over 200,000 YouTube subscribers, and 50,000 followers on TikTok.[11]
Personal life
editIn 2016, Geick began posting pictures of him with his boyfriend on Instagram and then came out as gay to some schoolmates.[9][7] He came out to wider audiences in 2017 in an article in Stevenson's school newspaper[12] and a profile in Outsports.[13][7] From 2017 to 2019, he was in an on-again, off-again relationship with YouTuber Jackson Krecioch.[14][5]
In April 2023, Dylan confirmed in a YouTube video that he now and for some time has recognized his sexuality as queer.[15]
References
editCitations
edit- ^ Columbia University Athletics.
- ^ a b Clark 2018.
- ^ Coloma 2019.
- ^ Abrams 2017.
- ^ a b c Hawgood 2018.
- ^ Geris 2019a.
- ^ a b c Zeigler 2017.
- ^ Geris 2019b.
- ^ a b c Buzinski 2019.
- ^ Havey 2021, p. 197.
- ^ a b Curvy 2021.
- ^ Aguilar 2017, p. 8.
- ^ Clark 2017.
- ^ Tighe 2020.
- ^ Geick, Dylan (April 27, 2023). "Coming Out… again?". YouTube. Retrieved May 2, 2023.
Bibliography
edit- Abrams, Sean (March 1, 2017). "This Teen Wrestler's Coming Out Story Will Warm Your Heart". Elite Daily. Archived from the original on March 1, 2017. Retrieved November 8, 2019.
- Aguilar, Joe (March 5, 2017). "Pats' Geick is out to make a difference". Daily Herald. Arlington Heights, Illinois. p. 8. Retrieved April 30, 2022 – via Gale OneFile.
- Buzinski, Jim (October 31, 2019). "NCAA consulted gay wrestler, social media star Dylan Geick on new policy". Outsports. Retrieved November 8, 2019.
- Clark, Mike (March 31, 2017). "Stevenson wrestler Dylan Geick: 'I am not alone' as a gay high school athlete". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved May 5, 2022.
- Clark, Mike (March 20, 2018). "Stevenson grad Dylan Geick a 'pretty remarkable story' as gay wrestler for Columbia". Lake County News-Sun. Archived from the original on March 20, 2018. Retrieved November 8, 2019 – via Chicago Tribune.
- Coloma, Ron Rocky (August 28, 2019). "Dylan Geick: An athlete not afraid to speak up". The Guam Daily Post. Archived from the original on August 29, 2019. Retrieved November 8, 2019.
- Curvy, Dania (March 4, 2021). "New Rulers: Dylan Geick". VMan. Archived from the original on March 4, 2021. Retrieved March 6, 2021.
- Geris, Elif (June 20, 2019b). "Dylan Geick on sharing on YouTube his coming out story: "The battle of culture is not totally won yet"". WGN (AM). Retrieved November 8, 2019.
- Geris, Elif (August 9, 2019a). "Social Media Influencer and Writer Dylan Geick on being an out digital entrepreneur". WGN (AM). Archived from the original on August 10, 2019. Retrieved November 8, 2019.
- Havey, Nicholas (May 4, 2021). "When the Campus is the Locker Room: A Queer Analysis of Student Athletics Bias Incidents". Journal of Women and Gender in Higher Education. 14 (2): 187–203. doi:10.1080/26379112.2021.1950740. ISSN 2637-9112. S2CID 237356738.
- Hawgood, Alex (February 27, 2018). "A College Wrestler Who Is Out and Writes Poetry". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved November 8, 2019.
- Rigda, Ryan S. (August 2, 2018). Rhetoric, Sport, and Queer/Theory: Gender and Athleticism in Queer Sports (Ph.D. thesis). Texas A&M University.
- Tighe, Conner (October 26, 2020). "The Extraordinary Life of Dylan Geick". Ball State Daily News. Archived from the original on November 1, 2020. Retrieved March 6, 2021.
- Zeigler, Cyd (February 23, 2017). "This elite Illinois high school wrestler is proudly gay". Outsports. Archived from the original on February 24, 2017. Retrieved November 8, 2019.
- "Dylan Geick - Wrestling". Columbia University Athletics. Retrieved March 6, 2021.
