Matthew "Matt" Kale Snider (born on January 26, 1976 in Des Moines, Iowa

Des Moines, Iowa

Des Moines is the capital and the most populous city in the US state of Iowa. It is also the county seat of Polk County. A small portion of the city extends into Warren County. It was incorporated on September 22, 1851, as Fort Des Moines which was shortened to "Des Moines" in 1857...

) is a former American football

American football

American football is a sport played between two teams of eleven with the objective of scoring points by advancing the ball into the opposing team's end zone. Known in the United States simply as football, it may also be referred to informally as gridiron football. The ball can be advanced by...

 fullback

Fullback (American football)

A fullback is a position in the offensive backfield in American and Canadian football, and is one of the two running back positions along with the halfback...

 from the University of Richmond

University of Richmond

The University of Richmond is a selective, private, nonsectarian, liberal arts university located on the border of the city of Richmond and Henrico County, Virginia. The University of Richmond is a primarily undergraduate, residential university with approximately 4,000 undergraduate and graduate...

. He graduated in 1999 with a Bachelor of Arts

Bachelor of Arts

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 degree

Academic degree

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 in Sports Science

Sports science

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 and Health

Health

Health is the level of functional or metabolic efficiency of a living being. In humans, it is the general condition of a person's mind, body and spirit, usually meaning to be free from illness, injury or pain...

. The Carolina Panthers

Carolina Panthers

The Carolina Panthers are a professional American football team based in Charlotte, North Carolina. They are currently members of the South Division of the National Football Conference in the National Football League . The Panthers, along with the Jacksonville Jaguars, joined the NFL as expansion...

 offered him an NFL free agent

Free agent

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 contract in the spring of 1999. He spent the summer in Charlotte

Charlotte, North Carolina

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 and went through three mini-camps with the club, but they released him after the third. The Green Bay Packers

Green Bay Packers

The Green Bay Packers are an American football team based in Green Bay, Wisconsin. They are members of the North Division of the National Football Conference in the National Football League . The Packers are the current NFL champions...

 then offered him a two year contract in July 1999, and Snider made the roster as the back-up fullback and special teams performer after coming into camp as the fourth string fullback. One highlight of his career at Green Bay was a 66 yard touchdown reception at Lambeau Field

Lambeau Field

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.

He played two seasons for Green Bay, they released him at the start of the 2001 season, and the Minnesota Vikings

Minnesota Vikings

The Minnesota Vikings are a professional American football team based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The Vikings joined the National Football League as an expansion team in 1960...

 picked him up soon after. Snider played four games with the Vikings before they released him, and for the rest of the 2001 season he was not on a roster. The newly formed Houston Texans

Houston Texans

The Houston Texans are a professional American football team based in Houston, Texas. The team is currently a member of the Southern Division of the American Football Conference in the National Football League...

 signed Snider as a free agent in December 2001, and he has the distinction of being one of the first ten players the Houston Texans ever signed. The Texans released Snider after training camp in August 2002 and his NFL

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 career was over.

Snider graduated from Lower Merion High School

Lower Merion High School

Lower Merion High School, is an American public high school in Ardmore, a community on the Pennsylvania Main Line.It is the larger of the two high schools in Lower Merion School District, which serves both Lower Merion Township and the Borough of Narberth. It was ranked among the top 60 U.S. high...

 in Ardmore, Pennsylvania

Ardmore, Pennsylvania

Ardmore is a census-designated place in Delaware and Montgomery counties in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. The population was 12,455 at the 2010 census...

, a suburb outside of Philadelphia, in 1994. He played football and basketball for the Lower Merion Aces, and he played two years of high school basketball with Kobe Bryant

Kobe Bryant

Kobe Bean Bryant is an American professional basketball player who plays shooting guard for the Los Angeles Lakers of the National Basketball Association . Bryant enjoyed a successful high school basketball career at Lower Merion High School, where he was recognized as the top high school...

. In 1994, Snider's senior season and Bryant's sophomore season, he and Bryant were named team MVP's for the season. Snider was also named to the first team all Pennsylvania Main Line

Pennsylvania Main Line

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 roster.

Snider now lives in San Diego and works as a personal trainer

Personal trainer

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 with private clients in downtown San Diego and at Frog's Fitness in Solana Beach, California and Santaluz Country Club in Rancho Santa Fe, California. His personal website is http://www.mattsnider.net where you can find more information on his personal training services.