To watch Dillon Serna is to witness a kind of frenetic precision. His movement is so quick, from his stutter steps to his step-overs and his changes of direction, that it sometimes feels like he’s been put into a turn-of-the-century silent film, moving at 1.5x speed, while everything else is still going at a medium pace.
Supporters of the Colorado Rapids have been telling everyone they could get a hold of “Hey! This Serna kid is good!” since he was signed to a homegrown contract in 2013, just after his freshman year at the University of Akron. Fans love him because of his classic local-boy-makes-good story, since Serna grew up in Brighton and played with the Rapids academy since he was in middle school.