Even though the Swope Park Rangers players keep busy with practice and traveling, they always make time for their dogs. Kris Tyrpak, Tommy Meyer and Christian Duke all own dogs that they call their best friends.
As for their dogs’ soccer abilities, they would all make the team. Rangers forward Kris Tyrpak says his three-year-old German Shepard Titan, who is celebrating his third birthday on Bark at the Park Night, is pretty talented. “Titan would be a center back. I play with him all the time and he always takes the ball right away from me,” Tyrpak said.