Tyller Robert arrived in this world in 1993. A true child of Minnesota, he wasn't born with ice skates on but it wasn't long after he started walking that he also began skating. He began his organized hockey career in the Tartan youth program but by bantams he was skating for the Wisconsin Fire AAA team. He then attended Cretin Derham Hall High School where he became a standout hockey defenseman, at 6'1"  and 185 lbs known for both his offensive skills and his physical play. Robert definitely wanted to play college hockey after graduating from Cretin in 2011 and chose the path of junior hockey first to enhance his opportunities.  He signed with the Wenatchee Wild of the NAHL for the 2011-12 junior hockey season and was then traded to the Odessa Jackalopes. Robert had a solid year with Odessa, continuing to develop his offensive skills while asserting himself with very physical play. After that 2011-12 season Robert decided to play an additional year of NAHL junior hockey. His game would continue to improve, as would his college hockey options. 

In July of 2012 Robert was taking a couple weeks off from an intensive summer training regimen when his college hockey dreams and goals were shattered by an errant jet ski on Lake Pokegama near Grand Rapids, Minnesota. Robert was riding on one jet ski when another driver lost control of his machine. Robert and his jet ski were t- boned by the other machine. The front tip of that machine drove directly into Robert's left leg, crushing both his tibia and fibula. Robert recalls that in the immediate aftermath he couldn't feel anything in his left leg but the water around him was becoming red with his blood as his broken leg bones had penetrated out through his flesh and skin. His friends got him to shore and an ambulance was called. He was initially transported to a hospital in Grand Rapids but the injury was so severe that he was then airlifted to St Lukes Hospital in Duluth. At St Lukes the Doctors worked to save both Robert's leg and his life. The initial two surgeries were to repair the shattered bones and reinsert them into the leg, together with closing the exterior wound. There was also major concern of infection from the lake water. Robert was initially in the hospital for almost two weeks, but his medical care was far from over. Seven subsequent surgeries took place, including taking part of one of his ribs to replace the leg bone he had lost in the accident, together with his lateral muscle to replace the muscle he lost. Skin was then taken from his left thigh for the major grafting necessary on his left shin.

There was no hockey for Tyller Robert during the 2012-13 season. His goal was to instead rehab his left leg and learn to walk on it again. Robert put all his energy and emotion into his recovery and by spring 2013 he was back on the ice, learning how to skate again with what was in essence for him a new left leg. He decided he did not want his hockey career to be over, he still wanted to play. And play hockey again he did. The 2013-14 season Tyller Robert was back on the ice, this time with the Twin City Northern Lights of the MNJHL. He played 20 plus games with the Northern Lights, was the leading defense scorer and was named Assistant Captain of the team. During the season Robert also began to consider which college he wanted to attend. He knew his D1 dreams were over but he still had the goal of playing college hockey. In December 2013 Robert toured Gustavus Adolphus College. During the tour, while still on the campus, Robert realized that Gustavus  was where he wanted to go to college, the entire atmosphere and layout of the campus, the strong sciences program, the excellent hockey. 

Robert played JV hockey his freshman year at Gustavus, 2014-15. He continued, however, with the goal of playing varsity hockey for the Gusties and worked hard both on and off the ice to recover from his leg injury. The season of 2015-16, Tyller Robert, a little more than 3 years removed from almost losing his left leg, almost losing his life, played fourteen varsity games for Gustavus at defense. An extraordinary accomplishment as Robert overcame extreme injury and adversity, working and fighting his way back in likely the greatest comeback story in Gustavus hockey history.

In 2016-2017 Tyller Robert became assistant coach of the Gustavus JV hockey team and was again JV coach for the 2017-18 season. The coaching experience was both an extremely positive experience for Robert but also a way for him to give back to Gustavus and its hockey program. Robert graduated in 2018 with a Bachelors in Athletic Training, a course of study he specifically pursued as a result of his injury. He is now working for Twin City Orthopaedics. 

Tyller Robert's on ice career did not, however, come to an end after he graduated from Gustavus. In the summer of 2018 fellow Gustie alum Michale Fabie introduced Robert to the sport of bandy as they both skated for US rink bandy team Dynamo Washburn. The following winter, 2018-19, Robert made his big ice debut skating for the Saints in USA Bandy's 1st Division. In doing so Robert became another one of the 74 Gusties to play in the US bandy league. He describes the sport of bandy as a perfect sport, a beautiful sport, skating on the ice rink the size of a soccer field, very competitive but lacking the violence and focus on physicality that comes with ice hockey. The extremely welcoming and positive chemistry of bandy, not just within Dynamo Washburn and the Saints, but the entire program, all the teams and all the players. Robert also emphasizes that the more he skates the more his leg positively responds, allowing him to both remember and to feel like he did before his injury. How well has Tyller Robert adapted to the bandy ice? He recently scored his first bandy hat trick,  skating for there Saints. Although he kept a low profile in the locker room after the game it was clear from the smile in his eyes, how happy he truly was. Gustavus Adolphus College and USA Bandy are both happy for, and proud of, Tyller Robert.