Pittsburgh, Myrtle Beach and Columbus Ohio: What a week!
Brock Pickett On October 26, I drove to Pittsburgh to see our grandson, Brock Pickett, play in a soccer match at Duquesne University. Brock is a freshman at Wright State University in Dayton. After a successful high school soccer career in West Virginia and then Cleveland, he elected to attend Wright State. Fortunately many of their games were broadcast on ESPN + so I was able to watch him play and begin to work his way into starting midfielder. His heads up and energetic play won him a starting role. Pretty impressive for a Freshman. During the last half of the season, he typically played the full 90 minutes. While Wright State did not advance to the Horizon League Tournament, the future for the team and Brock looks bright. He was named to the Horizon League All Freshman Team. It was the only time that I was able to see Brock play in person and his play was what it has always been: heady, energetic and smooth. When what you know about soccer you learned by watching grandc