After growing up in Marblehead Massachusetts, Bryant attended Kimball Union Academy and graduated in 2004. While on the hilltop, Bryant was a four-year, three sport varsity athlete. He was a lacrosse co-captain, a hockey assistant captain, and a two-year soccer captain. Bryant was a residential proctor, Orange Key awarded head tour guide and senior class president. Bryant was also named the KUA athlete of the year in his senior year. Following graduation, he took a year off and played Junior Hockey in Massachusetts where he was named to the all EJHL team. He then attended Hobart and William Smith Colleges where he majored in Philosophy and PreMed for a focus in BioMed Ethics, with a minor in Environmental Studies. He played Varsity Soccer as well as Varsity Ice Hockey and was, in his freshman year, named as the Ice Hockey Rookie of the year. In his senior year Bryant captained the Varsity Ice Hockey team.

Coming from a long line of teachers, for Bryant, education has always been at the forefront for him. He offers a diverse perspective and background, as his own experiences in school were quite similar to those of the students with which he works. In his time at Kimball Union Academy, professionally, he has strived to develop his understanding and has been working toward an advanced degree in the field.
Bryant is a Varsity Lacrosse and Varsity Hockey Assistant Coach, he is a dorm parent in Dexter Richards and does extensive work regarding diversity and race on campus.

Matt joined the KUA community in 2016 and is the product of a boarding school, having graduated from Athol Murray College of Notre Dame in Wilcox, Saskatchewan, Canada. Matt then played four years of hockey at Cornell University where he was an NCAA All-American and ECAC Goaltender of the Year in 2002. Matt was selected by the Calgary Flames in the 1999 NHL draft and from 2002-2006 he played professional hockey, including a stint with the Chicago Blackhawks in the NHL as well as with several teams in the American Hockey League and the East Coast Hockey League, where he was named Goaltender of the Year in 2006.

Matt holds a BA in Linguistics from Cornell and a Master of Arts in Teaching from Simmons College. In addition to teaching English at KUA, Matt serves as an Assistant Coach for Boys’ Varsity Hockey and as the Head Coach for Varsity Softball. Prior to joining KUA, Matt spent ten years teaching English and serving as the Head Baseball Coach and 9th grade faculty leader at Boston Collegiate Charter School in Dorchester, MA. He was also an Assistant Varsity Hockey Coach at Milton Academy from 2011-2016.