CBS 58's Hometown Athlete: Twins from Tosa make UW-La Crosse Eagles fly high
WAUWATOSA, Wis. (CBS 58) -- Twins from Wauwatosa are making the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse Eagles soar. Grant and Aidan Matthai have won multiple national and conference titles in cross country, and track and field. Now they want to end their collegiate careers at home with a bang.
'The bond doesn't. It doesn't break," Aidan Matthai said. "Let's go!"
When you look at the Matthai twins -- you're nearly seeing double.
"If people meet us for the first time? We give them leniency because we're identical twins," Grant Matthai said. "So I'm not gonna, I'm not gonna be mad at you if you get us wrong the first few times. But if you've known us for at least a year? You gotta get it right!"
Grant and Aidan Matthai are twins from Wauwatosa. But you should know who's who.
"Three strikes and you're out kind of deal," Aidan Matthai says.
Competing for UW-La Crosse, they've won back-to-back national cross-country championships.
Matthai brothers
"The first time we won the national title was 2024," Grant Matthai said. "And I would say the main emotion from that one was relief just like to get that off your back and say ok, like I knew we were capable of doing this. But we hadn't proved it yet. And we finally were able to prove it. So you get that weight off your shoulders. This time around? It was mostly just like pure joy."
"Oh I'll go with that one. Especially with Grant," Aidan Matthai said. "It's like, it's kind of the stuff that you dream about when you first enter as a freshman. And then it becomes a reality. And you're like wow, this is like gonna be one of my all-time moments that I look back on."
Next month, in their last season together, they have a goal of a 3-peat for a men's national outdoor track title.
"Outdoor nationals is at La Crosse," Aidan Matthai said. "So it's kind of symbolic in a way where as a senior? I get to end my collegiate career at the place where it started. So I mean, outdoor season is really when I wanna have my best performances. And winning a team title at home would just be the greatest."