 In December 1980, he was selected by the Tampa Bay Rowdies in the first round of the North American Soccer League draft.Instead of signing with the Rowdies he chose to attend Indiana University Bloomington from 1982 to 1986.While at Indiana, he was a member of the school's NCAA Men's Soccer Championship teams of 1982 and 1983, as well as the 1984 second-place team.