Columbia University Athletics

2021
 
Served as a student assistant coach, assisting primarily with the linebackers.
 
2020
 
Season canceled due to COVID pandemic.
 
2019
 
Served as a student assistant coach, assisting primarily with the linebackers.
 
2018
 
Did not see any game action as a first-year linebacker … Sidelined with injury.
 
HIGH SCHOOL
 
A 2018 graduate of Kinkaid High School in Houston, Texas where he played three years of varsity football for Head Coach Nathan Larned … Two-time All-Southwest Preparatory Conference selection as an outside linebacker as a senior and junior … Named a Defensive Finalist for the Touchdown Club Private School Player of the Year … Named Private School Preseason Player of the Year in 2017 by the Touchdown Club … Named to the VYPE Preseason All-Offensive team prior to senior season … Saw action as an outside linebacker and running back … Earned 11 varsity letters at Kinkaid … Two-time football team captain … Concluded senior year with 56 tackles, three sacks and four pass breakups … Led team in tackles … Totaled a career game-high 15 tackles vs. St. John’s … Led the Falcons to the SPC Championship, a 7-3 overall record and 4-1 district record as a senior … Finished with 78 tackles, four sacks and three pass breakups as a junior … Registered 95 tackles, three sacks and five pass breakups as a sophomore … Helped lead the Falcons to an SPC Championship as a sophomore … Also played basketball and competed in track and field … Played four seasons as a guard on the basketball team … Served as basketball team captain as a senior … Named to the all-tournament team at the Aldine Basketball Tournament … Threw the shot put in track and field … Ranked fifth in school history in the shot put … Finished fifth in the SPC Meet as a senior … Competed on the Houston Force AAU Basketball team from 2011-16.
 
PERSONAL
 
Born Marquis Bernard Hubbard on March 9, 2000 in Houston, Texas … Son of Maurice Hubbard and Alyemi Odujobi … Has an older brother Michael Gibbs … Nickname is “Quis” … Hobbies and interests include photography … Also plays the cello … Favorite class and subject is astronomy … Is ambidextrous as he plays sports and completes normal activities with his right hand and used a phone with his left hand … Became interested in Columbia because two of his high school teachers were Columbia graduates … Notable individuals who attended his high school include George W. Bush, Jeb Bush, William P. Hobby, Jr., James Baker III and Lauren Bush … Chose Columbia because it offered the best opportunity to further himself mentally, physically and emotionally at a world-class university and the fact that the staff genuinely cares about each player getting better and leaving the school as a better person in all aspects … Selected Columbia over offers from Harvard, Dartmouth, Penn, Brown, Davidson, Colgate and Rice … Enrolled at Columbia College … Majors in Sociology.