There will likely be eight inductees into the 2022 Montana Professional Soccer Corridor of Fame Class. Within the help class is power and conditioning coach Rock Gullickson.
Raised in Moorehead, Minnesota, Rocky Gullickson started his teaching profession at his alma mater at Morehead State Minnesota, the place he was a 3 12 months starter at guard, incomes all-conference honors whereas main Moorehead as workforce captain.
It was the beginning of a 17 12 months teaching profession in faculty soccer. After stops at Mayville State and South Dakota State, Gullickson joined the Montana State teaching employees in 1982. He turned the primary power and situation coach within the historical past of the Huge Sky Convention.
His design of the load room facility in Bozeman helped play a key position within the MSU soccer program profitable the 1984 Division I AA Nationwide Championship when the Bobcats defeated Louisiana Tech beneath head coach Dave Arnold.
That success led to teaching positions with Rutgers and Texas, the place he labored with NFL gamers together with Ricky Williams, Priest Holmes and Casey Hampton. He then moved on to work for Louisville.
Gullickson entered the NFL teaching ranks in 2000 with the New Orleans Saints serving because the workforce’s power and situation coach for the subsequent 5 seasons. In 2006, he joined the employees in Inexperienced Bay, the place he was named the NFL Energy Coach of the 12 months in 2007, an award voted on by all 32 power and conditioning coaches within the league.
Gullickson spent seven extra seasons within the NFL with the St. Louis and Los Angeles Rams earlier than returning to the faculty ranks in 2017 for one 12 months with the College of Tennessee.
40 years of teaching excellence in each faculty soccer and the NFL, Rock is now retired and lives in Oregon together with his spouse, Terri.
Rock Gullickson, Class of 2022 inductee to the Montana Professional Soccer Corridor of Fame.