Big Sky Breakdown

Brekke shoulders elevated role against Bryant’s veteran defense

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Gunnar Brekke is usually engaging and friendly, a leader of his teammates who is well liked by all. During the first game of his senior season however, Brekke was anything but happy.

As he sat on his couch in his Bozeman home, several of his teammates came over the watch the game. Brekke, a senior running back and team captain from Helena who labored all off-season for a chance to shine in his final football season, was in a place he did not expect: left off the travel roster with pneumonia, tuning into watch his team’s season-opener at Idaho on the television.

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About Colter Nuanez

Colter Nuanez is the co-founder and senior writer for Skyline Sports. After spending six years in the newspaper industry with stops at the Missoulian, the Ellensburg Daily Record and the Bozeman Daily Chronicle, the former Washington Newspaper Association Sportswriter of the Year and University of Montana Journalism School graduate ('09) has cultivated a deep passion for sports journalism during his 13-year career covering the Big Sky Conference. In August of 2014, Colter and brother Brooks merged their passions of writing and art to found Skyline Sports.

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