Major: Sport Industry (2015)

Weight: 205 (2015), 184 (2014)

2015 Media Guide: Malik Hooker is in his second season with the Buckeyes … he red-shirted the 2014 season as a true freshman.

High School: Malik Hooker played just two seasons of high school football and was a two-year starter at wide receiver and cornerback for coach Joe Cowart at New Castle H.S. … basketball was his preferred sport – he was a Division I prospect – before he first played football during the 2012 football season … considered a dynamic athlete, Hooker was rated as a four-star prospect by Scout and ESPN and was among the Top 300 players by Scout with a national ranking of No. 258 … 247Sports rates him as its No. 26 athlete while ESPN rated him as its No. 50 athlete … helped New Castle to the WPIAL Class AAA state playoffs in 2013 and to a 7-3 record … named Pennsylvania Football Writers Class AAA all-state and all-Western Pennsylvania as a defensive back as a senior … also named to the WPIAL Elite 11 team as a DB and to the American Family Insurance All-Pennsylvania team as a wide receiver in
2013 … helped New Castle to a 54-2 record on the hardwood as a sophomore and junior and to consecutive WPIAL championships … named to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette’s Fabulous 5 basketball team in 2012-13.

Personal: Is the son of Angela Dennis.