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UW This Season: Zeb Whipp is coming off back surgery this past spring, which caused him to miss all of 2009 spring drills. He is coming off the best season of his Wyoming career in 2008. If he can recover from his injury, he will provide the Cowboy linebacking crew with three years of experience in which he has played a total of 25 games. 2008: Whipp recorded 21 total tackles in 2008 -- 10 solo tackles and 11 assists. He was also credited with 3.0 tackles for losses and 0.5 sacks. He played in 11 of Wyoming's 12 games his junior season. His best games came against Bowling Green (four tackles, 0.5 sacks and 1.5 tackles for losses), BYU (three tackles), New Mexico (three tackles and 1.0 tackle for a loss) and UNLV (three tackles). He teamed with Ward Dobbs to give the Wyoming Defense a very experienced group at the weakside (inside) linebacker position in `08. 2007: Whipp appeared in seven games for Wyoming, recording seven tackles on the year. He played primarily on special teams during his sophomore season. 2006: Whipp played in seven games for the Cowboys, including each of the final five games of the year. He was primarily a special teams' performer as a redshirt freshman, making five tackles on the season. He earned his first varsity letter. Whipp walked on to the Wyoming Football team in the fall of 2005, and quickly impressed Wyoming coaches with his abilities and work ethic. 2005: Redshirted. High School: Whipp was one of the most accomplished high school student-athletes in recent Wyoming history. He was presented the top award for a high school student-athlete in the state of Wyoming when he was chosen as the Milward Simpson Award winner as the Top Male Athlete his senior year. He was also named the Male Athlete of the Year by Wyoming Preps. Whipp was selected to the Casper Star-Tribune Super 25 team as both a junior and senior, and was named the Super 25 Defensive Player of the Year in 2004. The Wyoming Chapter of the National Football Foundation and College Football Hall of Fame selected him as a Scholar Athlete the summer following his senior season. Also during the summer following his senior year, he played in the Wyoming Shrine Bowl. As a senior, Whipp accounted for 128 total tackles, including 25 tackles for losses, four fumble recoveries, two interceptions, three pass breakups, one blocked kick and scored one defensive touchdown from his linebacker position. Over his three-year career, he earned All-State honors in football all three seasons, and concluded his career with 259 total tackles, 60 tackles for losses, seven fumble recoveries, three interceptions, four blocked kicks and seven pass breakups. He was elected a team captain his senior year. Not only an outstanding football player, Whipp was also just as accomplished as a wrestler. He won individual state championships in wrestling his sophomore, junior and senior seasons. He was named All-State in wrestling three straight years. His senior season, he was selected to receive the Rocky Mountain Top 24 Wrestling Award, was honored with the National Wrestling Hall of Fame's Dave Scholtz Excellence Award and was ranked No. 14 in the nation in his weight class in 2005. In track and field, he captured the state championship in the discus as a senior, and ran one leg on Lander Valley's 4x100 state championship relay team that same season. He also placed fourth in state in the shot put as a senior. An honor student throughout high school, Whipp was named the recipient of the President's Education Award for Outstanding Academic Excellence, and was awarded a 21st Century Scholars' Award in recognition for his outstanding leadership. He was coached in high school by head football coach Steve Simpson. Whipp was also recruited by Colorado State and Montana State. Personal: Born Dec. 28, 1986, he is the youngest of five children born to Marie and John Whipp. He is majoring in agriculture business. |
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