Kwame Darko

Back, Jr., 5-9, Kumasi, Ghana

A talented athlete with ever-improving technical skills… added 20 pounds to his frame without losing a step of his superior quickness… a great one-on-one defender… plays right back… 2000: 1999: Started every match at right back… 1998: Named the team's Most Improved Player… started the season at forward, shifted to the flank and finally to defense… Personal: First name pronounced KWAH-mee… gained good experience in two Greensboro-area adult soccer leagues over the summer… works as a residence advisor worked in Guilford's sports information office last summer… a two-time All-Potomac Valley Athletic Conference performer for Coach Eduardo Polon’s Sandy Spring Friends School team… earned a spot on the Washington Post's All-Met team in 1997… also a standout lacrosse player at Sandy Springs… participated in the 1997 World Scholar-Athlete Games… played one year with the Bethesda Thunder… younger brother, Ampofo, is a freshman teammate this year… son of Charles and Eva Tagoe-Darko… physics and economics double major.