Seth Hundeby. (Photo: Huskie Athletics)
“I am super excited to be drafted and I can’t wait to see the opportunities that will unfold and a new career in the future to come,” said the 23-year-old Hundeby, who was born and raised in Saskatoon. “But first, I am looking forward to completing my final year of eligibility with the Huskies and continuing to work towards my engineering degree.”
Hundeby was one of three Huskies drafted by CFL teams on Tuesday, along with fellow linebacker Lane Novak (selected in the fifth round, 54th overall, by the Winnipeg Blue Bombers) and receiver Daniel Wiebe (eighth round, 69th overall, by the Roughriders).
For Hundeby, football and engineering both run in the family. His cousin, uncle and great uncle all played Huskies football, while his father Gord and grandfather Dave both studied mechanical engineering at USask, the same field he is majoring in.
“My grandpa is actually a mechanical engineer who I believe has 20-plus patents himself and my dad is also a successful mechanical engineer, so that creativity kind of flows through my family and I have definitely taken to that and really enjoy the design process,” said Hundeby, whose mother Tracey also played Huskie women’s basketball at USask. “Entrepreneurship really interests me, so if I can find a career where I am coming up with different inventions or better ways to do things, that seems to me to be the most interesting aspect of mechanical engineering for me.”
For his part, Huskies head coach Scott Flory – himself a USask engineering graduate and former Huskies all-star who went on to enjoy an impressive 15-year career in the CFL – is not surprised at all to see Hundeby return for his fifth year to finish what he started with the Huskies and in his studies at USask.