“It shocked a lot of people i think,” Geick said.Īs an athlete, Geick has been great in a sport that measures strength, toughness and agility as well as any other. By nightfall he had heard from other wrestlers at seven different high schools in the Chicago area asking the same thing or offering support.
Just minutes after coming out to the students at his lunch table a year ago, his phone began to “blow up” from other students and teammates asking if the news was true. “Exploded” is, in this case, an understatement. “I really didn’t like having to sneak around,” Geick told Outsports, “so I came out to the kids at my lunch table one day after last season. It was only a couple weeks after starting to date his boyfriend that Stevenson High School’s gay star wrestler, Dylan Geick, decided the closet wasn’t for him.
