Matt Ganyard didn’t make the Virginia football team as an undergraduate. Over a decade later, he’s poised to make an impact after making the cut this summer.
The Coronado, Calif., native is a retired marine, a married father of two young children and a walk-on at his undergraduate alma mater. He’s also never played a down of organizedGanyard played soccer most of his life, but watched football, wondering how difficult it was to slot an 11-inch cowhide through two goal posts.
Ganyard never saw combat, but the kicker kept his eyes trained on his dream of playing college football. He kept a “bad rubbery football” to practice kicking when the ship he was stationed on wasAs he neared the end of his 10 years of service, Ganyard shifted his focus toward business school. If he went back to school, Ganyard thought, that also opened the possibility of trying out for football.
“As a coach, you want to be protective of your team,” Meyer said of his initial skepticism. “[But] he had an amazing story that was validated by his performance.”
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