He spent four years playing for the Badgers, spending two campaigns as team captain and winning a national title in his senior season.
After graduating with a degree in Communications/Journalism Rohlik became an assistant for his alma mater for a year before pursuing an abbreviated professional career with the Knoxville Cherokees.
In 1997 Rohlik left Minnesota and returned to the college ranks as an assistant for the new program at Nebraska–Omaha under Mike Kemp.
Rohlik remained with the Mavericks for three seasons before he accepted a similar position with Minnesota–Duluth with their new bench boss, Scott Sandelin.
Rohlik worked for the Bulldogs for a decade, leaving the year before the program won its first national title, to become an associate coach with Ohio State beneath his former college teammate Mark Osiecki.