Calvin Karangwa - Western Wyoming Mustang Soccer Player

Photos from Karangwa family

 Calvin Karangwa who is originally from Rwanda and recently graduated from Layton Christian Academy has signed a National Letter of Intent to play NJCAA men's soccer at Western Wyoming Community College in Rock Springs WY.

Calvin is a prolific scorer, in the spring 2016 season he scored an average 1.8 goals per match that he played in for the Layton Christian Academy Eagles.  This was the highest goals per match rate for any boy's soccer player in the state of Utah.

Karangwa also led the state of Utah for goals scored in the 2016 spring season.  In 2016, Calvin scored 27 goals for LCA and added more than 10 assists.  Calvin was named 1st Team All State for 2A Utah by the Deseret News and the Standard Examiner All Area 2nd team.

The LCA Eagles helped by Calvin's scoring made it to the 2016 2A Quarterfinals of the Utah State Soccer Championships.  As a junior Calvin tallied 10 goals for LCA and again helped them reach the second round or the Quarterfinals of the 2A Utah State Soccer Championship.

Western is very happy to have Calvin join the Western Wyoming attack.  Western graduated the top three forwards from the 2015 team, Jose Rincon (1st Team All Region IX & signed to play at Waldorf University), Riley Gibson (2nd Team All Region IX and signed to play at Waldorf University) and Jesse Cardenas (1st Team All Region IX).  With the departure of Jose, Riley and Jesse Western will need to find new players to step up into the dependable attacking role.  Western Wyoming has a great tradition of exceptional strikers averaging two forwards being named All Region every year.  Dennis Sellis also led the NJCAA in goals scored (34) and offensive points (79) in 2007.


 Calvin will add poise in front of the opposition's net and someone who can add his name to the stat sheet almost every match.  Speed is a positive attribute for Calvin along with experience in playing a lot of soccer and being able to involve teammates.  Calvin and his future teammates who should see time at forward; Briston Lowell, Seth Romsa, Josh Abplanalp, Carlos Gonzalez and Victor Gonzalez should be able to continue the tradition of great forward play and finding the back of the net.  Karangwa could also fill-in at any of our attacking midfield positions including attacking center midfield and outside midfield.

Western is very lucky to have a talented young man like Calvin Karangwa choose to represent them on the soccer pitch.  The best of luck to Calvin the next 2 years while wearing the Mustang Red, White and Black.