The past year has been a tornado for Real Salt Lake forward Corey Baird.
Despite winning three consecutive NCAA College Cups, he was widely unheralded coming into his first professional season. Fast forward to this week and he returned to RSL from his first camp with the U.S. National Team, earning two starts during Gregg Berhalter’s first two matches as head coach while toting the club credentials of winning 2018 AT&T MLS Rookie of the Year honors while helping RSL to the Western Conference Semifinals.
Now in his first week of RSL training camp in Honolulu, Hawaii, after a month with the U.