Brandt Betts was named the Bob Gansler Academy Player of the Year on Friday during Pitch Black, Sporting Kansas City’s annual awards ceremony at Children’s Mercy Park.
Betts has been a member of the Academy for seven years, and throughout most of his time he endured the thick and thin until he earned the award that justifies all of the work he has put into his journey.
Betts has always loved soccer so much, he can’t even remember the time when his dream wasn’t to become a soccer player. Although his path in the Academy wasn’t always smooth and easy, it provides a motivational story for the books.