Tyler Deric grew up a fan of the Houston Dynamo, the first of a new generation of soccer players in Southeast Texas with a Major League Soccer club to call their own. Deric was the first alumnus of the Dynamo Academy to be promoted to the first team; he became the full-time starter and donned the No. 1 shirt last season.
Deric grew up watching the Dynamo as a player in the powerhouse Klein High School program before heading to the University of North Carolina in 2007. A year later, he returned to Houston as the first Homegrown Player to sign with the team, and now he finds himself standing in front of the supporters he once cheered along with.