The Minnesota Daily · May 5, 2015
One sibling a star, another finds his spot
Brothers and Gopher football players Matt, left, and Mitch Leidner pose at the Gibson Nagurski Football Complex on Friday.After falling to rival Lakeville North to end his illustrious high school career at Lakeville South, future University of Minnesota quarterback Mitch Leidner didn’t know if his brother Matt, a center, would ever block for him again.
But as the two boys crossed the football field after the game to meet family, their father, Jeff, had a hunch that they would call each other teammates once more.
“We had hoped that [Matt] would make the decision to go play with Mitchell at Minnesota,” Jeff Leidner said. “If I could pick any place to send my boys to college, it would be there.”