Lafayette College Athletics

2024: Started first two games of the season at center.

2023: Missed season due to training camp knee injury, after likely earning a starting spot in camp…selected as one of 51 Leopard players who earned Patriot League Academic Honor Roll distinction after achieving a 3.57 GPA.

AT WAKE FOREST: Spent three seasons at the ACC school, playing offensive line...played in four games (VMI, Army, Boston College and Louisville) in 2022...in 2021, also saw action in four games and 49 snaps, making career debut in the season-opening victory over Old Dominion...played a season-best 20 snaps in a win over Duke...took a redshirt year in 2020. 

AT SETON HALL PREP: Named All-Super Football Conference United White First-Team on the defensive line...three-year letterwinner who served as a team captain as a senior...played in the Phil Simms North South High School All-Star Classic...earned a spot on the All-Non-Public football team…garnered First team All-Essex County honors…helped lead his squad to an 8-2 record and the Super Football Conference-United White Division title...registered 30 tackles with a sack in his senior season when Seton Hall Prep was ranked among the top 25 Catholic high school teams in the country...secured Second Team United White offensive honors as a junior, helping guide squad to the state semifinal...honor roll student.

PERSONAL: Son of Joseph and Erica Grippo…has an older brother, Joseph, who plays lacrosse at Stevens Tech and a younger brother, Brady...born 1/11/02.