Kuehl attended Walt Whitman High School in Bethesda, Maryland, where he was a prep All-American selection as a senior.
One of Kuehl's notable high school achievements was scoring the Vikings' only playoff touchdown in nearly 20 years on a late game scoring strike from quarterback Andy Eichberg in the 1988 MD state playoff loss to the Randallstown Rams.
[1] Kuehl was a four-year letterman at the University of Virginia and was named second-team All-ACC at defensive tackle (1994).
Although he didn't play during the season, he earned a ring as a member of the Super Bowl XLII winning team.
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