Columbia University Athletics

2022

NFF Hampshire Society Inductee … Played in six games … Registered three tackles on the year.
 
2021

Saw action in all 10 games with five starts as a junior defensive end … Listed as the either starter or backup defensive end on the depth chart … Started the season’s first five games … Finished season with 21 tackles (13 solo) with one pass breakup and a quarterback hurry … Made two tackles (one solo) in season finale at Cornell (Nov. 20) … Finished with three tackles (one solo) vs. Harvard (Nov. 6) … Totaled three tackles (one solo) with a quarterback hurry vs. Penn (Oct. 16) … Made two tackles (one solo) at Central Connecticut State (Oct. 9) … Tied a career-high with five tackles (three solo) at Princeton (Oct. 2) … Tied a career-high with five tackles (five solo) and a pass breakup vs. Georgetown (Sept. 25) … In first career start and first career game action, finished with one solo tackle vs. Marist (Sept. 18).
 
2020
 
Season canceled due to COVID pandemic.
 
2019
 
Did not see action as a first-year defensive lineman … Contributed primarily on the scout team.
 
HIGH SCHOOL
 
A 2019 graduate of Williston Northampton Prep in Easthampton, Mass., where he lettered for two seasons for Head Coach Thomas Beaton … Saw action as a defensive end and tight end for the Wildcats … Two-year team captain … Earned the Mills Kicking Game Award in 2018 … Team finished 3-5 in the New England Pre School Erickson League in 2018 … Attended Seminaire Saint Francois School in Quebec City, Quebec, where he played three years of football for Head Coach Luc Savoie … Earned All-Provincial First Team honors … Named to Team Quebec … Ranked the No. 16 player in the Class of 2019 in Canada … Also ranked as the No. 1 tight end in the Class of 2019 … Led the Wildcats to the 2016 Provincial title, two league championships and a combined 58-12 overall record during his four years … Caught six passes for 134 yards and two touchdowns vs. Saint Jean Eudes … Led Saint Francois to an 11-0 record, league title, Bol D’or provincial championship and No. 2 national ranking in 2016 … Guided Saint Francois to a 10-0 record and league title in 2015 … Played defender on the lacrosse team … Lettered in lacrosse for two years … Earned the Lincoln D. Graniss Yale University Scholarship … Earned the Paul M. Pathy Scholarship Fund … Finished second in the national French contest in 2018 … Earned Academic Merit honors … Involved in the community as he volunteered with the Parsons closet thrift shop and Auberiviere soup kitchen … Also served as a construction worker for the Festival d’Ete de Quebec (FEQ), counselor in a summer camp, grocery shop and restaurant grill master.
 
PERSONAL
 
Born Thomas Antoine Thibault on July 13, 2000 in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada … Son of Eric Thibault and Marie-Soleil Trembley … Has three siblings: brothers Alexandre, Xavier and Loic … Younger brother of Columbia defensive end Xavier Thibault … Nickname is T or Thom … Can play guitar, bass, trumpet and piano and currently learning to play the banjo … Hobbies and interests include music (guitar), geography and politics … Selected Columbia because of the opportunity to further his education, play a sport he loves and spend the next four years with his brother Xavier, who is also his role model … Says his brother is his role model because he pushes him to become better every day … If he could compete in another sport at Columbia, it would be rowing … Favorite sports memory was winning the Bol D’or (provincial title) in 2016 … Selected Columbia over offers from Princeton, Dartmouth and Brown … Enrolled at Columbia College … Majors in Sociology.