TUKWILA, Wash. – Midfielder Aaron Kovar has returned to the Seattle Sounders’ preseason camp as the fittest player on the roster for the second straight year.
Kovar, the 22-year-old midfielder and Homegrown Player entering his third season with the Sounders, won the team’s annual beep test on Monday at the Starfire Sports complex. The grueling test measures endurance and fitness by asking players to run a certain distance in an increasingly short amount of time, and a player is eliminated when he cannot complete the run before the beep sounds.
Kovar was the last man standing for the second straight year during the Sounders’ second day of preseason training Monday.