Lafayette College Athletics

AT PROVIDENCE CATHOLIC: Earned IHSFCA All-State honors at the 5A level...named 2025 Lineman of the Year in the Chicago Catholic League Orange Division, earning all-conference first-team honors his final two seasons...played tackle, tight end and long snapper, serving as a team captain his senior year...helped lead teams to state runner-up finishes in 2022 and 2025, a semifinal appearance in 2023 and a CCL Orange title in 2022...Academic All-State selection...two-sport athlete who played first base and DH on the baseball team, garnering regional, sectional, super sectional and state titles in 2024 and regional and sectional titles in 2025...holds a third-degree black belt in Tae Kwon Do...National Honor Society member who was an Illinois State Scholar and a high honor roll student...member of Spanish Honor Society, Student Council and Student Augustinian Values Institute...served as a Celtic Leader and as a Special Olympics volunteer.

Personal: Son of Stanley and Cindy Tencza…has an older sister, Demitria...uncle Brian Tencza and cousins Zackary Tencza and Jake Tencza all played college football at Illinois Wesleyan, while cousins Jim Tencza (Bellarmine), Dave Tencza (St. Francis) and Nathan Miller (Wisconsin-Stevens Point) all played baseball...born 9/14/07.