Mark McKenzie’s sports origin story is pretty ordinary.
He started playing sports when he was little, maybe three or four years old. He enrolled in as many sports as he could at the local YMCA, playing basketball, baseball, soccer, swimming, and many others. He just wanted to play sports, but his parents believed there was one sport he’d take to more than others.
Swimming.
McKenzie was big and tall, even as a child, and he loved to swim. So that was the focus of what he wanted to do in his early childhood. But there was always soccer in the background as well, and the game developed into his first sports love.