Lauded o-lineman aims high in the CIS

Recently graduated St. Francis Brown Matthew Hubert is hoping his years of experience will give him an edge as a Calgary Dino.

Teams:

Saint Francis Browns (High school)

Calgary Goldenhawks (Peewee, Bantam)

Position:

Right tackle

 Height/Weight:

6’6, 270 lbs

 Commitment:

University of Calgary Dinos

 Class:

2013

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For the past eight years, offensive lineman Matthew Hubert of Calgary has been tearing up the football field. He began his career as a Peewee with the Calgary Goldenhawks, where he also played Bantam before moving on to high school and the St. Francis Browns. As both a Peewee Goldenhawk and a Brown, he was chosen for the All-Star team, and has been named Offensive Lineman of the Year no fewer than five times over the course of his long career.

Matthew has also competed both provincially and nationally. He was part of the team that took home the gold medal in the 2010 Alberta Summer Games, and would go on to help Team Alberta clinch silver in the 2012 Canada Cup. Both those games stand out particularly vividly in Matthew’s mind.

“Those are games I’m never going to get to experience ever again in my life,” he says. “It’s one of those once-in-a-lifetime moments that you’ll get to cherish for the rest of your life and only dream of experiencing again.”

When he isn’t playing football, Matthew plays several other sports including basketball and baseball, and also enjoys camping, working out and spending time with his family.

Matthew also says he enjoys meeting new people, which will certainly become an asset for him as he enters his new life as both a student and a player at the University of Calgary this fall, where he hopes to help the Dinos win the Vanier Cup. “It’s one the best schools in the country,” Matthew says, “not just for football but for academics as well.”

Matthew is looking forward to life as a Dino in both the academic and athletic sense; alongside suiting up on the gridiron, he will also be pursuing a degree in Economics.

Though Matthew’s life as a football player is set for the foreseeable future, there is still one big hurdle coming up: with provincial and national medals in hand, he hopes to compete at the international level and will be trying out for the U-19 Canadian junior national team later this year.

 

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