2022 Montana Football HOF: Rock Gullickson

(Editor’s word: Every Monday for eight weeks, MTN Sports activities is that includes a member of the 2022 Montana Soccer Corridor of Fame Class main into the June 25 banquet on the Billings Lodge and Conference Heart. Tickets can be found on the group’s web site.)

BILLINGS – Rock Gullickson is a man who actually throws his weight round. Sufficient so, that it is earned him an induction to the Montana Soccer Corridor of Fame in June.

Gullickson jumped on board with Montana State’s teaching workers in 1982 and is notable for turning into the primary power and conditioning coach within the Massive Sky Convention.

He designed a weight room in Bozeman that performed a key function for the Bobcats in profitable their nationwide title in 1984 once they out-muscled Louisiana Tech, 19-6.

Since then, Gullickson has been throughout together with school stops at Rutgers and Texas, the place he beefed up NFL working backs Ricky Williams and Priest Holms. He jumped over to Louisville after which to the NFL in 2000.

That yr, Gullickson designed a power and conditioning program for the New Orleans Saints. He spent 5 years within the Massive Straightforward earlier than becoming a member of the Packers the place he was named NFL Energy Coach of the 12 months in 2007. It is a particular award for Gullickson having been voted on by all 32 power and conditioning coaches within the league.

The Rams employed him earlier than he closed out 17 years within the NFL and went again to school. Not for lessons, however conditioning gamers for a yr on the College of Tennessee.

After 40 years of development setting, Gullickson says he is retired and residing together with his spouse in Oregon. However you realize he is nonetheless chiseled and and seems to be in taking part in type.

Raised in Moorehead, Minnesota, beefing up the Bobcats and thorwing his weight across the NFL, Rock Gullickson is one in every of eight inductees to Montana’s newest Soccer Corridor of Fame Class June 25 on the Billings Lodge and Conference Heart.