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Wyandotte College Football Player Receives All-Academic Honors
Andrew Matt served as one of the team captains in 2013, and was a four-time Academic Excellence selection from his redshirt freshman through redshirt senior seasons.
Two members of the 2013 Wayne State University football squad from Downriver received All-Academic accolades from the Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference this season.
Redshirt sophomore place-kicker Majd Khytaz of Grosse Ile, and redshirt senior defensive end Andrew Matt of Wyandotte, Roosevelt High School earned the honors maintaining a cumulative grade-point average of at least a 3.0.
Matt, who served as one of the team captains, was named a four-time Academic Excellence selection from his redshirt freshman through redshirt senior seasons.
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He ranks in the top 10 all-time with five career fumble recoveries, the most by a Warrior since Alan Guy (2004-07). Matt also had five recoveries and finished one point shy of top 10 all-time in quarterback hurries, a record kept since 2002.
His younger brother, Hunter, is a sophomore linebacker at Eastern Michigan.
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