Honors and Awards
2021: Academic All-Big Ten
2020: Academic All-Big Ten, Big Ten Distinguished Scholar
2019: Academic All-Big Ten
2018: Academic All-Big Ten
2017: Academic All-Big Ten
Career: Played in 48 games with 2 starts ... recorded 41 tackles, 2.0 TFLs, 2 fumble recoveries and 2 pass breakups ... graduated in December 2020 with degrees in finance, investment & banking and real estate & urban land economics
2021 Season: Earned fifth letter, playing in 7 games with two starts ... started the season opener vs. Penn State and recorded 2 tackles ... also started the following week vs. Eastern Michigan and had 3 tackles
2020 Season: Earned fourth letter, playing in 5 games ... posted 5 tackles ... had 2 tackles vs. Wake Forest in the Duke's Mayo Bowl on Dec. 30
2019 Season: Earned third letter, playing in all 14 games ... logged 16 tackles, including 14 solo stops, recovered a fumble and broke up 2 passes ... made career-high 6 tackles in season opener at South Florida on Aug. 30 ... had 3 tackles vs. Kent State on Oct. 5 ... recorded 2 tackles vs. Ohio State in Big Ten Football Championship Game on Dec. 7
2018 Season: Earned second letter, playing in 9 games … recorded 4 total tackles vs. Rutgers on Nov. 3
2017 Season: Earned first letter, playing in 13 games ... recorded 11 tackles, including 6 solo stops and 1.0 TFL ... recovered 1 fumble ... racked up 3 tackles at Minnesota on Nov. 25 ... had 2 tackles and 1.0 TFL resulting in a safety at BYU on Sept. 16 ... made 2 tackles at Indiana on Nov. 4 ... made Badgers debut vs. Utah State on Sept. 1, recording 1 tackle and recovering a fumble ... notched a tackle vs. Miami in the Orange Bowl on Dec. 30 ... had 1 stop at Nebraska on Oct. 7 ... made 1 tackle vs. Florida Atlantic on Sept. 9
2016 Season: Redshirt season
High School: As a starting guard, helped 14-0 Stevenson to Class 8A state championship and North Suburban Conference title as a junior … team captain as a senior, starting at inside linebacker … also lettered in basketball and baseball … two-time North Suburban Conference All-Academic … 2014 Illinois State Scholar … recipient of the Ambassador Award, Stevenson’s highest honor, as a junior … National Honor Society … four-year honor roll student … high school coach was Bill McNamara
Personal: Parents are Mark and Kristin Maskalunas … father played golf at DePaul from 1984-88 … grandfather, Ron Maskalunas, played football at Purdue … uncle, Eric Maskalunas, played football at Augustana (Ill.) from 1988-92
