Corey Petryschuk

Corey Petryschuk (born June 23, 1986) is an American football player who played for the Los Angeles Kiss of the Arena Football League. He was signed by the Milwaukee Iron as an undrafted free agent in 2006. He played college football at University of Windsor from 2005 and later for Wilfrid Laurier University in 2006. He briefly retired in 2011, due to lack of play time, but returned to active play in 2013 with the Spokane Shock. In 2014 he signed with the Los Angeles Kiss.
Petryschuk is also a harp guitarist appearing on the Christian Punk band Left Out's 2002 album Left Out. As of 2015 he has announced plans for a solo career in music including his first solo album as well as a rock opera featuring his famed harp-guitar
Early career
Petryschuk was born in Windsor, Ontario and played high school football for Leamington District Secondary School in Leamington, Ontario from which he graduated in 2004. He also played hockey and baseball for LDSS.
University career
After the demise of Left Out, Petryschuk started collegiate career at University of Windsor where he was selected as a junior Canadian Interuniversity Sport All-star. He transferred to Wilfrid Laurier University for the 2006 season where he took computer science.
AFL career
Corey went undrafted in the 2006 NFL draft, and signed with the Milwaukee Iron that summer. He was converted from the Full Back position he had played for his college and high school career into a Defensive End. From 2006 to early 2011 he spent most of his time on the practice squad, rarely getting any game time.
After his band, Left Out, announced they have no wishes to continue touring, or make new musical material, Corey announced he had begun training to return to active playing duty. He signed with the AFL's Spokane Shock in 2013, and after a season, joined the Expansion Los Angeles Kiss to begin to 2014 Arena League Season. During the 2015 off season, Corey was cut from the LA Kiss due to commitments with his music career getting in the way of keeping in game shape. He's currently a free agent, and to try to make his way back into shape (and hopefully sign with another team), he signed a tryout with the Windsor Stars of League1 Ontario as a defender.
Musical career
Petryschuk formerly played the harp-guitar in the Chicago, Illinois Christian Punk band Left Out on their 2002 CD Left Out. They broke up shortly afterwards so Corey was unable to tour with the band, or slow up on further releases. Until recently Petryschuk has put more focus into his football career than his musical career and has not since released any further material, although they have returned to touring.
A little known fact about Petryschuk during this time frame is that he was financially strained and, along with one band-mate from Left Out who was in similar circumstances, found other singers, and formed a band that didn't use instruments, sang a Capella, and called themselves "The Have Nots". Petryschuk explained, "We couldn't afford instruments at the time, so we just sang and acted like we were playing. It was kind of a like a sketch comedy skit while we were singing and it really caught on". During this time, to make ends meet, he became a plus-sized hand model, mostly for Mr. Lube's ill-fated hand lubricant line. When that fell through in 2013 he announced plans to become a solo artist, and also began training with the LA Kiss.
2015 Solo Career: From the Harp and Petry Dish
Corey Petryschuk has recently announced plans for a solo album to be titled From the Harp which is set to be an album of love songs melding his traditional harp-guitar sounds with heavy metal. No release date has been announced as of this time, however he has expressed hopes to perform the title single before the Detroit Tigers play their opening game.
Petryschuk also announced his plans for a harp-guitar Rock Opera to be called Petry Dish which may not see a release until 2017. He is reportedly working on a preview track titled 'Attack of the Flying Spaghetti Monster' originally in collaboration with Canadian rock band Crash Kondition, who have since withdrawn from the project, which is set to be an allegory on religion in post modern society. Petryschuk later announced his new band for both Petry Dish as well as for From the Harp called Corey Petryschuk and the Science Experiments.
Discography
* 2002 Left Out - Left Out
* 2015 From the Harp - Corey Petryschuk and the Science Experiments
* 2017 Petry Dish Original Soundtrack - Corey Petryschuk and the Science Experiments

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