Career
After first playing professionally in his native Latvia, Friebergs moved to North America as a junior and played collegaite hockey with the Bowling Green State University in National Collegiate Athletic Association league. On 8 August 2014, Friebergs signed his first North American professional contract in agreeing to a one-year American Hockey League deal with the Saint John"s IceCaps. Freibergs appeared in 5 games with the IceCaps, however was re-assigned to ECHL affiliate, the Ontario Reign for the majority of the campaign.
Leading into the 2015-2016 season, Freibergs accepted an invitation to the Grand Rapids Griffins training camp on 28 September 2015.
He was later re-assigned and signed an ECHL contract with affiliate, the Toledo Walleye on 6 October 2015. Freibergs competed in the 2014 Winter Olympics being the only active National Collegiate Athletic Association hockey player to compete in the men"s tournament.
His first appearance was in the third game when he logged 4:56 of ice time. Freibergs also competed in the elimination round games against Switzerland and Canada.
The International Olympic Committee (International Olympic Committee) announced on 25 April 2014, that Freibergs was excluded from the XXII Olympic Winter Games in Sochi.
Freibergs provided a urine sample on 22 February whose A and B samples indicated the presence of dehydrochloromethyl-testosterone metabolite 18-nor-17b-hydroxymethyl-17a-methyl-4- chloro-5b-androst-13-en-3a-ol.