Offensive lineman Austin Hyatt (76) gets an earful from then-Arizona offensive line coach Jim Michalczik during drills on the UA campus on the first day of the Wildcat football team’s 2014 spring practice on March 3, 2014.

 Ron Medvescek, Arizona Daily Star 2014

The UA also used Michalczik to get a recruit from British Columbia, 260-pound offensive linemanΒ Harper ShermanΒ of New Westminster High School. That’s not unbroken ground for Arizona. The top player the Wildcats ever had from Canada wasΒ Chris Schultz, a starter for the 1981 and 1982 Wildcats who became a seventh-round draft pick of the Dallas Cowboys and spent two seasons in the NFL.Β 

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