Jens Lillehei plays for the Knights football team at Carleton College. The team made the NCAA Playoffs in 1992 when it won the MIAC (Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference) title. The Knights football team has had 61 winning seasons and more than 450 wins. Jens Lillehei plays for the Carelton Knights as a defensive end and has seen playing time since his freshman year. The program has been nationally ranked, finished in the top 26 in Division III, and posted wins over ranked opponents. Jens Lillehei also serves in the attack position on the school lacrosse team.

Jens Lillehei attended high school at the Breck School in Minnesota, where he played football, lacrosse, and hockey and served as Co-Captain on the football and lacrosse teams. Mr. Lillehei helped the high school football team called the Mustangs get to the Tri-Metro conference playoffs and he was an Urban Bowl Selection in 2009 as well as All-Conference Honorable Mentions in 2007 and 2008. In addition, Jens Lillehei’s high school lacrosse team won it’s conference in 2009, which he fondly remembers as one of his greatest moments in sports.

Currently, Jens Lillehei is pursuing a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from Carleton. In addition to playing sports there, he participates in various campus activities. He has one older and one younger sister who are both in college and attend Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut, and Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, respectively.

His parents live in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and are involved in health care.