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15 MINUTES: A Pro not far from home
Davy Armstrong, a former striker for Rangeview High School, reflects on life with the Colorado Rapids
Thursday, June 2, 2011
By COURTNEY OAKES
The Aurora Sentinel (Colorado, USA)
Davy Armstrong, at 19, is Aurora’s youngest professional athlete, having signed a contract with the Colorado Rapids of Major League Soccer just a few weeks after graduating from Rangeview High School.
An All-American striker in four varsity seasons with the Raiders, Armstrong had a scholarship offer on the table to play at the University of Washington. Instead, he accepted the chance with the Rapids, who made him their first hometown signee after he worked his way through their developmental academy. Armstrong didn’t see any game action with Colorado last season, but he was with the team when it won the franchise’s first MLS Cup Championship last November.
Armstrong — who has a brother who also played at Rangeview and two sisters — has Cambodian roots as his father, Ri, came to the United States as a boy by way of adoption and made the U.S. ski team for the 1980 Olympics in Lake Placid, N.Y. Davy Armstrong grew up on the family’s 2 1/2-acre plot of farmland on the northeast edge of Aurora, working on his soccer skills and helping tend to animals.
We caught up with Armstrong at a Rapids reserve game against Sporting KC on May 29 outside of Dick’s Sporting Goods Park, a game he couldn’t play in part due to his recovery from a concussion he sustained recently in training. Pausing mid-sentence to watch his team on the attack, Armstrong talked about growing up in Aurora, how things have changed for him in the past year and the many facets of his life as a professional athlete.
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