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8 Macauley Kilbane

  • Position Defensive Back
  • Height 5-11
  • Weight 190
  • Class Graduate Student
  • Hometown Clarendon Hills, IL
  • Highschool Mount Carmel

Biography

2020
- Season canceled due to COVID-19 pandemic.
- First Team CoSIDA Academic All-American.
- CoSIDA Academic All-District selection.
- Named to Centennial Conference Academic Honor Roll.
2019
- Second Team D3football.com All-South and First Team All-Centennial Conference.
- Believed to be the first JHU cornerback to earn First Team All-Centennial in back-to-back years.
- CoSIDA Academic All-District selection.
- First JHU cornerback to earn all-region honors since Ryan Rice in 2013.
- Matched career-high with 48 tackles and added 10 pass breakups, three blocked kicks, two tackles for loss and one interception.
- Posted five tackles, four pass breakups and one interception in a 17-12 season-opening win at Randolph-Macon.
- Tallied six tackles against Susquehanna and five against Ursinus, F&M and Muhlenberg.
- Closed season with back-to-back seven-tackle efforts against McDaniel in the regular-season finale and Stevenson in the Centennial-MAC Bowl Series.
2018
- First Team All-Centennial Conference.
- Started all 14 games at cornerback and posted 48 tackles, eight pass breakups, three interceptions, two forced fumbles, one fumble recovery and one blocked kick.
- Led the team in pass breakups, ranks second in interceptions and tied for seventh in tackles.
- Had four tackles and returned an interception 34 yards for a touchdown in a 63-31 season-opening win against Randolph-Macon.
- INT return for a TD against Randolph-Macon fueled a 28-point game-ending run for Johns Hopkins.
- Posted a season-high eight tackles at Susquehanna and added six stops at Gettysburg.
- Had a key third-quarter interception in a 58-27 win at sixth-ranked Frostburg St. in the second round of the NCAA Playoffs.  INT led to a touchdown that fueled a 29-point run that turned a 20-19 deficit into a 48-20 lead.
- Totaled 15 tackles, three pass breakups and one interception in JHU's four NCAA Playoff games.
2017
- Played in 11 games.
- Ranked sixth on the team and first among freshmen with 46 tackles on the year.
- Added four tackles for loss, four pass breakups, one interception, one forced fumble and one fumble recovery.
- 46 tackles on the year are the most by a Johns Hopkins freshman since Kale Sweeney had 49 in 2008.
At Mount Carmel
- Helped team to an 18-8 record in final two seasons with a pair of Prep Bowl titles.
- Earned the team's Most Outstanding Defensive Back Award as a junior and senior and grabbed all-conference honors as a senior.
- Totaled 105 tackles, nine tackles for losses, four interceptions and three forced fumbles combined as a junior and senior.
Personal
- Macauley Kilbane.
- The son of Kerry and James Kilbane.
- Has one older sister, Maggie.
- Father played football at Wabash from 1980-83, helped team to a 31-5-1 record and served as team captain as a senior.
- Has completed internships with Great Plains Capital, LLC (summer 2019), Acura Marketing Intern Program (Winter/Spring, 2019) and Captive Resources, LLC (summer, 2018).
- Majoring in economics with minors in entrepreneurship and management and marketing management.

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Historical Player Information

  • 48

    2017Freshman

    Defensive Back
    5'11" 180 lbs
    48
  • 8

    2018Sophomore

    Defensive Back
    5'11" 190 lbs
    8
  • 8

    2019Junior

    Defensive Back
    5'11" 190 lbs
    8
  • 8

    2020Senior

    Defensive Back
    5'11" 190 lbs
    8
  • 8

    2021Graduate Student

    Defensive Back
    5'11" 190 lbs
    8