Army West Point Athletics
2025 Football Roster
Roster
Gavin Shields
- Class:
- Senior
- Position:
- Nickelback
- Height:
- 6-2
- Weight:
- 205
- Hometown:
- Pitman, N.J.
- High School:
- Red Lion Christian Academy (USMAPS)
- Major:
- Systems & Decision Sciences
2025: vs. Tarleton State (8/29): Started, and recorded a pair of tackles, including a solo tackle, while also adding a quarterback hurry…at Kansas State (9/6): Started at nickelback and recorded three solo tackles…vs. North Texas (9/20): Started at nickelback and made four total tackles, including a pair of solo tackles…at East Carolina (9/25): Started at safety and recorded eight total tackles (six solo), with a sack and an additional tackle for loss…at UAB (10/4): Started at safety, made three tackles, recorded a third quarter interception, broke up a pass and recorded a quarterback hurry…vs. Charlotte (10/11): Started at nickelback and registered a tackle and quarterback hurry…at Tulane (10/18): Started at safety…at Air Force (11/1): Started at safety and recorded four tackles, three solo, including a sack, and also intercepted a pass in the third quarter…vs. Temple (11/8): Started at nickelback and made three total tackles, two solo, as well as a quarterback hurry…vs. Tulsa (11/22): Started at safety and made nine tackles, six of those solo, while forcing a fumble late in the third quarter.
2024: Appeared in 10 games for the Black Knights recording a career-high 11 tackles…At FAU (9/7): Posted three tackles (two solo), a tackle for loss and had two pass breakups, one almost an interception...vs. Rice (9/21): Posted two tackles...at Temple (9/26): Logged two solo tackles and a pass breakup...at North Texas (11/9): Made one solo tackle...vs. Notre Dame (11/23): Logged two tackles…vs. UTSA (11/30): Deflected a pass that was intercepted by S Casey Larkin in the fourth quarter that sealed the victory…vs. Louisiana Tech (12/28): Recorded one solo tackle.
2023: Played in all 12 games, logging one tackle…vs. Delaware State (9/9): Made one tackle.
2022: Played in one game.
Prior to West Point/Personal: Part of National Honor Society and was an honor roll student all four years…Was All-State in football…Was All-Conference all four seasons in football and was All-Conference for three years in basketball, All-State for two years in Track, and All-Conference once in baseball…Spent 2021 at USMAPS.
