Former Spartan starting in the Mitchell Bowl

Times Reporter

 

A former Spartan player has continued his football career and recently played in the Mitchell Bowl at McMahon Stadium in Calgary on Nov. 20. The St. Mary’s University Huskies played against the University of Calgary Dino’s to see who would continue on to the Vanier Cup. Sean Seafoot, a former Strathmore resident, was the starting centre for the Huskies who were defeated at the Mitchell Bowl. 

“We had too many turnovers. It was a pretty brutal showing, it wasn’t how we usually play,” said Seafoot.   

Seafoot began playing ball in Grade 8 with the Bantam Spartans and continued on throughout high school with the Spartans. 

“After 2006 I graduated and took two years off and I played in B.C for the CJFL, the Canadian Junior Football League,” said Seafoot. 

He spent two years playing in British Columbia, one year at Abbotsford Air force and the second year was with the Okanogan Sun in Kelowna.

“The year I went (to the Huskies), was the year they lost to Manitoba in the Vanier so when I had an opportunity to play for the Vanier team, I took it,” said Seafoot. 

This was his first year starting for the Huskies. During his first year he only dressed with the team for one game and last year he dressed for every game.  Seafoot has four years of eligibility and has only used one of the four years and he plans to continue playing as long as he can. He would spend as many as five days a week prepping for upcoming games and he said now that the season is over ,he is finding it weird to adjust to all the free time he has. 

Playing university ball is the next step after high school and Seafoot said it is one of the steps a football player needs to take, if they want to start playing professionally. 

“The advice I would give to future players that want to come up to the CIS is just be an athlete and get smart and get in your books,” said Seafoot. 

He said when he was in high school he had poor grades and he had to go through summer school to get them back up. He is now a third year criminology major at St. Mary’s University.