I’m from the San Fernando Valley and having played soccer since the age of about five, I’ve developed a unique understanding of soccer within the Los Angeles landscape.
I feel like I played every sport growing up but it was soccer that stuck. I don’t think I ever asked to be a goalkeeper, and I guess I never complained, but I got good at it, so I stayed there. I played in high school at Bishop Alemany in Mission Hills, and then at Loyola Marymount University. I played for two years there, then studied abroad, going to Spain, Cuba, and also participating in a domestic exchange at Spelman College in Atlanta.