Matt Gottbrecht, Wake Rugby Class of 2009, will start at inside center on Saturday for the Middlesex Barbarians. Middlesex finished last season as the #3 men's club in USA Rugby Division 3, and was promoted to Division 2 for this season based on their success from 2007-2009. This weekend they begin their inaugural D2 campaign in the highly competitive NERFU league against the Boston area side Old Gold. Gottbrecht, who played everywhere from prop to lock, to flanker, to flyhalf to center in his career at Wake Forest, will don the #12 jersey for the Barbarians on Saturday. Said Middlesex head coach Josh Smith, "Matt is an incredibly versatile athlete who we expect to use at multiple positions this season. His game awareness, work-rate, and toughness fits in perfectly with our pattern of play and adding a player of his caliber to the team will certainly help our competitiveness as we transition to the challenges of NERFU Division 2.
Gottbrecht, as well as returning Wake seniors Christian Jewett and Michael Duffy, played this summer with the Middlesex Savages, a program designed by the Middlesex club to give Boston area college players an opportunity to hone their skills in a structured environment during the summer months. Duffy and Jewett are projected to be the core of the Wake forward pack this season and both have returned to campus much-improved due to their time with the Middlesex summer program.
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