York’s Myles Gibbon gets invite to CFL Combine

TORONTO, March 15 – York University Lions quarterback Myles Gibbon is one of the Canadian Interuniversity Sport (CIS) players who has been invited to the 2013 Canadian Football League (CFL) Combine presented by Reebok.

The three-day evaluation camp is an opportunity for general managers, coaches and scouts to test, interview and evaluate prospects who they may select in the 2013 CFL Canadian Draft on Monday, May 6. Draft eligible Canadian prospects will be put through a series of speed and strength tests, as well as football drills and interviews with the teams.

Gibbon is one of two quarterbacks to earn an invitation and the only one from a Canadian university (the other, Cayman Shutter, competes for Hawaii). He is the first Lion under head coach Warren Craney to earn an invite to the combine.

“I am very happy for Myles as this is a tremendous opportunity for him. He has worked very hard and this is very well deserved,” said Craney. “This is also huge for our football program here at York. He is the first of many players I know will one day be invited to the event!”

Gibbon, a graduate kinesiology and health science student from Montreal, completed his debut season with the Lions in 2012 after transferring to York from the University of South Alabama.

In eight games with the Lions, the 6-foot-2, 220-pound pivot accounted for 2,449 yards of offence and 11 touchdowns. He finished third in the OUA with 1,992 passing yards, completing 129 of 240 passes (54%), and threw for nine touchdowns, while also adding 457 rushing yards and another two TDs on the ground.

“I have always hoped to be able to show my skills at the combine and it is an honour to be invited to an event like this,” said Gibbon. “Hopefully I can impress and show my abilities to the fullest!”

A talented player out of Rosemere High School, Gibbon graduated from South Alabama in 2012 with a degree in psychology. He was the Jaguars’ first ever starting quarterback in 2009, when the squad joined NCAA football for the first time. He started six of the team’s seven games that year and played in seven games in 2010. For his career, he threw for 865 yards and nine touchdowns and ran for 267 yards and three scores, for a total offence of 1,132 yards.

Prior to playing for the Jags he was a quarterback at Vanier College in Montreal, where he guided the Cheetahs to the Bol D’Or title in each of his first two years. He was selected as the league’s most valuable player and to its all-star team in his third season, when he was also voted the Bol D’Or championship MVP. Gibbon set the school record for most touchdowns in a season, scoring 25 in just eight games in 2007.

The combine will take place at Varsity Centre at the University of Toronto March 22-24, 2013.

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