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As a history major, Chad Bush is pretty much an expert when it comes to researching the great events of the past and their impact on the future.

So when the time came for the promising soccer goalkeeper from Ottawa to determine his own future at the university level, he took a historian’s keen eye for the facts and let the journey take him where it would.

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“I reached out to the schools I thought were the top three in Canada for academics,” he says of the University of Toronto, McGill and UBC, “and UBC was always my first choice. With the 13 national championships they’ve won along with their academics, that really put it over the top for me.”

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You can scour all of U Sports (formerly CIS) and you’d be hard-pressed to find a person who exemplifies the term student-athlete better than the 22-year-old Bush, who was selected one of UBC’s stars of the week on Tuesday.