Dylan Geick

{{Short description|American wrestler, writer, and internet personality (born 1997)}}

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| name = Dylan S. Geick

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1998|9|9|mf=y}}

| birth_place = Buffalo Grove, Illinois, US

| education = Adlai E. Stevenson High School
Columbia University (no degree)

| occupation = Social media personality, writer

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| years_active = 2017–present

| channels = [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqzkatwmAH995sAyA3I1fGg Dylan Geick]

| subscribers = 193,000

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| views = 5.4 million

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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.

Life and career

Geick was born on September 9, 1998, in Buffalo Grove, Illinois.{{sfn|Columbia University Athletics}} At Stevenson High School,{{sfn|Clark|2018}} 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.{{sfn|Coloma|2019}}{{sfn|Abrams|2017}}{{sfn|Hawgood|2018}} He is a YouTuber and speaks on his experience as an out LGBT athlete and Internet celebrity.{{sfn|Geris|2019a}}{{sfn|Zeigler|2017}}{{sfn|Geris|2019b}}{{sfn|Clark|2018}} For a time Geick was involved in a relationship with fellow YouTuber and internet celebrity Jackson Krecioch.{{sfn|Hawgood|2018}} In 2019, Geick helped advise the National Collegiate Athletic Association on its compensation policy.{{sfn|Buzinski|2019}}

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.{{sfn|Havey|2021|p=197}} 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.{{sfn|Buzinski|2019}} In a March 2021 interview, Geick shared that he was discharging from the military in a few weeks.{{sfn|Curvy|2021}}

{{As of|2021|March}}, Geick had 678,000 followers on Instagram, over 200,000 YouTube subscribers, and 50,000 followers on TikTok.{{sfn|Curvy|2021}}

Personal life

In 2016, Geick began posting pictures of himself with his boyfriend on Instagram and then came out as gay to some schoolmates.{{sfn|Buzinski|2019}}{{sfn|Zeigler|2017}} He came out to wider audiences in 2017 in an article in Stevenson's school newspaper{{sfn|Aguilar|2017|p=8}} and a profile in Outsports.{{sfn|Clark|2017}}{{sfn|Zeigler|2017}} From 2017 to 2019, he was in an on-again, off-again relationship with YouTuber Jackson Krecioch.{{sfn|Tighe|2020}}{{sfn|Hawgood|2018}}

In April 2023, Dylan confirmed in a YouTube video that he now and for some time has recognized his sexuality as queer.{{cite web |last1=Geick |first1=Dylan |title=Coming Out… again? |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iiy-uOfAOc4 |website=YouTube |date=27 April 2023 |access-date=2 May 2023 |language=en}}

References

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{{cite web|url=https://www.elitedaily.com/dating/dylan-geick-coming-out-story/1807900|title=This Teen Wrestler's Coming Out Story Will Warm Your Heart|last=Abrams|first=Sean|date=2017-03-01|website=Elite Daily|language=en|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170301155711/http://elitedaily.com/dating/dylan-geick-coming-out-story/1807900/ |archive-date=2017-03-01 |access-date=2019-11-08}}
{{cite news |last=Aguilar |first=Joe |date=March 5, 2017 |title=Pats' Geick is out to make a difference |page=8 |work=Daily Herald |location=Arlington Heights, Illinois |url=https://go.gale.com/ps/i.do?p=STND&u=wikipedia&id=GALE%7CA484248609&v=2.1&it=r&sid=ebsco&asid=dddc452b |access-date=April 30, 2022 |via=Gale OneFile}}
{{Cite web|url=https://www.outsports.com/2019/10/31/20939368/ncaa-athlete-compensation-gay-wrestler-dylan-geick|title=NCAA consulted gay wrestler, social media star Dylan Geick on new policy|last=Buzinski|first=Jim|date=2019-10-31|website=Outsports|language=en|access-date=2019-11-08}}
{{Cite news |last1=Clark |first1=Mike |title=Stevenson wrestler Dylan Geick: 'I am not alone' as a gay high school athlete |url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/lincolnshire/sports/ct-lns-wrestling-dylan-geick-lgbt-st-0401-20170331-story.html |access-date=May 5, 2022 |work=Chicago Tribune |date=March 31, 2017 |language=en}}
{{Cite web|url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/lake-county-news-sun/sports/ct-lns-wrestling-columbia-dylan-geick-st-0320-20180319-story.html|title=Stevenson grad Dylan Geick a 'pretty remarkable story' as gay wrestler for Columbia|last=Clark|first=Mike|date=2018-03-20|website=Lake County News-Sun|via=Chicago Tribune|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180320030035/http://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/lake-county-news-sun/sports/ct-lns-wrestling-columbia-dylan-geick-st-0320-20180319-story.html |archive-date=2018-03-20 |access-date=2019-11-08}}
{{Cite web|last=Coloma|first=Ron Rocky|date=2019-08-28|title=Dylan Geick: An athlete not afraid to speak up|url=https://www.postguam.com/island_life/the_scoop/dylan-geick-an-athlete-not-afraid-to-speak-up/article_54e1360e-c49e-11e9-82a4-8be8f1de7c12.html|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190829141439/https://www.postguam.com/island_life/the_scoop/dylan-geick-an-athlete-not-afraid-to-speak-up/article_54e1360e-c49e-11e9-82a4-8be8f1de7c12.html |archive-date=2019-08-29 |access-date=2019-11-08|website=The Guam Daily Post|language=en}}
{{Cite web|last=Curvy|first=Dania|date=March 4, 2021|title=New Rulers: Dylan Geick|url=https://vman.com/article/new-rulers-dylan-geick/|url-status=live|access-date=2021-03-06|website=VMan|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210304165818/https://vman.com/article/new-rulers-dylan-geick/ |archive-date=2021-03-04 }}
{{Cite web |last=Geris |first=Elif |date=June 20, 2019b |title=Dylan Geick on sharing on YouTube his coming out story: "The battle of culture is not totally won yet" |url=https://wgnradio.com/2019/06/20/dylan-geick-on-sharing-on-youtube-his-coming-out-story-the-battle-of-culture-is-not-totally-won-yet/ |access-date=2019-11-08 |website=WGN (AM)|language=en}}
{{Cite web|last=Geris|first=Elif|date=August 9, 2019a|title=Social Media Influencer and Writer Dylan Geick on being an out digital entrepreneur|url=https://wgnradio.com/2019/08/09/social-media-influencer-and-writer-dylan-geick-on-being-an-out-digital-entrepreneur/|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190810120151/https://wgnradio.com/2019/08/09/social-media-influencer-and-writer-dylan-geick-on-being-an-out-digital-entrepreneur/ |archive-date=2019-08-10 |access-date=2019-11-08|website=WGN (AM)|language=en}}
{{Cite journal |last=Havey |first=Nicholas |date=2021-05-04 |title=When the Campus is the Locker Room: A Queer Analysis of Student Athletics Bias Incidents |journal=Journal of Women and Gender in Higher Education |url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/26379112.2021.1950740|volume=14 |issue=2 |pages=187–203 |doi=10.1080/26379112.2021.1950740 |s2cid=237356738 |issn=2637-9112|url-access=subscription }}
{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/27/style/dylan-geick-poet-wrestler.html|title=A College Wrestler Who Is Out and Writes Poetry|last=Hawgood|first=Alex|date=2018-02-27|work=The New York Times|access-date=2019-11-08|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}}
{{Cite thesis |title=Rhetoric, Sport, and Queer/Theory: Gender and Athleticism in Queer Sports |url=https://oaktrust.library.tamu.edu/handle/1969.1/174096 |date=2018-08-02 |degree=Ph.D. |language=en |first=Ryan S. |last=Rigda |publisher=Texas A&M University}}
{{Cite web|last=Tighe|first=Conner|date=October 26, 2020|title=The Extraordinary Life of Dylan Geick|url=https://www.ballstatedaily.com/article/2020/10/the-extraordinary-life-of-dylan-geick|url-status=live|access-date=2021-03-06|website=Ball State Daily News|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201101104321/https://www.ballstatedaily.com/article/2020/10/the-extraordinary-life-of-dylan-geick |archive-date=2020-11-01 }}
{{Cite web|url=https://www.outsports.com/2017/2/23/14703598/gay-wrestler-dylan-geick|title=This elite Illinois high school wrestler is proudly gay|last=Zeigler|first=Cyd|author-link=Cyd Zeigler|date=2017-02-23|website=Outsports|language=en|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170224071203/http://www.outsports.com/2017/2/23/14703598/gay-wrestler-dylan-geick |archive-date=2017-02-24 |access-date=2019-11-08}}
{{Cite web|ref={{harvid|Columbia University Athletics}} |author= |title=Dylan Geick - Wrestling|url=https://gocolumbialions.com/sports/wrestling/roster/dylan-geick/8194|access-date=2021-03-06|website=Columbia University Athletics|language=en}}