AT SAN JOSE STATE: Second season with the Spartans...Joined the team for 2008 fall drills...2008 Academic All-WAC and San Jose State University Scholar-Athlete.

2008: Handled all the long snapping duties during the season.

COMMUNITY COLLEGE: Long snapper for the 2007 national champion City College of San Francisco team (Coach George Rush).

HIGH SCHOOL: Lettered in football (Coach Mike Byerly) and baseball at Lincoln High in Stockton, Calif...Catcher on the baseball team.

MORE ON MATT: Sociology major... Attended a San Francisco 49ers summer training camp workout as an eighth grader and became fascinated with the skills exhibited by 49ers’ long snapper Brian Jennings...Self-taught and honed his skills snapping to a tree at home... Wants to become a special teams coach at the college level...The native of Stockton, Calif., was born on July 30, 1988.