COMMERCE CITY — For six years after his California youth soccer club broke apart when he was 10 years old, Caleb Calvert’s parents drove him an hour and a half daily from their small town of Apple Valley at the edge of the Mojave desert to practice with another team down in the Los Angeles area. All those hours wound up being time well spent.
The Rapids think they have a find in Calvert, 19, a target player and natural goal scorer who made his MLS debut last month, three years after he turned pro. Calvert is “incredibly grateful” to his parents for driving him “down the hill” from Apple Valley to San Bernardino countless times.