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TristenSalyer
- height 6-5
- Weight 306
- class Redshirt Freshman
- High school Johnson Central
2015 – Freshman
- Redshirted season
High School
- Four-year letter winner and two-year starter at offensive tackle where he helped the Golden Eagles compile an impressive 40-8 record during his prep career
- Earned All-Area, All-Region and All-State honorable mention as a senior
- Led JCHS to back-to-back undefeated regular seasons in 2013 and 2014
- Member of three district championship teams (2011, 2013 and 2014)
- Coached by Jim Matney
- Also lettered in basketball one season as a center
- Kentucky was his only choice of schools
Personal
- Born in Prestonsburg, Ky.
- Son of Tracey and Tony Hatfield and the late Michael Salyer
- Major is animal sciences with aspirations of being a veterinarian
Community Cats
- Stayed after practice to spend time with the Special Olympics (2015)
Tristen Says
- His nickname at home “Slayer”
- He chose Kentucky because he felt a change in the program for the better and wanted to be a part of it
- One word to describe him on the field is “determined”
- His sports hero is J.J. Watt because he went from being a walk-on in college to the NFL
- Most people don’t know his father passed away in 2011 and he’s the main motivation for him to keeping working hard