CAPITAL HIGH SCHOOL
CALEB KIDDER and Rickman have been going together for some time. Caleb said he was going to be a Griz and that changed Rickman's mind from Helena to Missoula. Both Maggie and Caleb are great kids.
This is a good article on Caleb.
Kidder could join Matt Miller as the only Bruins to be named First-Team All-State for three consecutive seasons for his continued work as Capital’s constantly pulling quick offensive guard this season. Consider that the 6-foot-5, 250-pounder will be taking his defensive end skills to the University of Montana next fall after being courted by Boise State, every Ivy League school and “a lot” of other Division I programs, and you have an idea of how dominant a force he is at the Class AA level.
“He’s just a stud. Talent-wise I’d have to say he’s the best player on the team,” teammate Gunnar Brekke said. “Obviously he’s a Division I athlete — he got recruited by so many schools for a reason. He is really fun to run behind because we run that “guard G” and he always gets out there on the corner and it’s nice to have a guy like him to hide behind.”
Kidder has been the obvious leader of an offensive line that has been the subject of much talk when it came to the Bruins’ need for improvement this year, but said he doesn’t think the unit has gotten a bum rap.
“I just think our ‘D’ is so good by comparison this year,” Kidder said. “The Bruin offense is usually better than Bruin defense, but that wasn’t the case to start the season. I think, offensively, we’re getting better all around, and it was just a matter of getting the technique down. I think we’re a championship line.”
That improved line play has helped Capital rush for 291.7 yards per game over their last three blowout victories while putting up an average of 47 points.
Defensively, the senior moved to his college position of end from nose tackle for the first time and is second among Bruin linemen with 44 solo tackles to go with 16 assists. He also has four forced fumbles, five sacks, seven quarterback hurries and one interception he ran back 37 yards against Glacier for his first touchdown since returning a pick as a linebacker … in seventh grade.
“That has to be my most memorable moment,” Kidder said. “That’s the most tired I’ve been. I wasn’t recovered yet, but we had to get right back out there against that offense.”
Kidder says he prefers the instinctiveness of playing on defense to his role on offense, and added that his proudest accomplishment this season is his overall improvement at end, considering the position’s “steep learning curve.”
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