By Blake Chadwick
Just two years ago, McPherson’s Borin Heang moved to the USA from Cambodia, and his whole life changed.
As a senior, Heang is very comfortable setting himself up to have a great last season as a Bullpup.
“Borin is a great attacking player,” head coach Chris Adrian said. “He has the technical ability and creativity to try things in front of goal no one else thinks of. He’s really a solid all-around goal scorer who can beat you a variety of different ways. I believe Borin is set up to have a tremendous senior year.”
The Bullpups finished fourth in Class 4A at state, and because of that, Heang was named to the all-state honorable mention team.
“Soccer is the most important thing in my life,” Heang said. “Soccer keeps me getting to work every single day and (I know it will always) be with me no matter what even when I have a rough day, I just can head to the field and kick the ball around, and it makes me feel better.”
For Heang, there was a pretty good learning curve for bettering his English and different playstyles during his first couple of months in McPherson.
“When my first year of playing high school soccer, I was starting on the JV team, and once the JV season was done, I got called up for the varsity team, but back then I wasn’t speaking English well enough to understand, so I missed the opportunity to play on the varsity team,” Heang said.
