I remember through the Black Lives Matter movement, how involved he was in that, and being a religious guy like he is, living his life through that … He and I are good boys, and I’m happy to see him nice and healthy and raring for the season.” In terms of off the field, you know how hard-working he is and how involved he tries to be at the school. He’s kind of the all-around player, and I think it’s great for him on the field. “Of course, technically, skill-wise, he does his thing there as well.
He’s going to go in there, he’s going to do what he needs to do, he’s going to do what he’s asked. “I don’t think I’ve ever seen him not get along with anyone, and I think everyone always wants to be friends with him. Horton is “just a good person to have around in the squad,” Dike said. “From minute one, everyone always called him Mini-Me,” Dike said Wednesday from England, where he plays for West Bromwich Albion. When Dike came out of the game, Horton usually replaced him at center forward. Virginia’s standouts that season included the 6-foot-2, 220-pound Dike, who led the team with 28 points (10 goals, eight assists). Horton was a freshman in 2019 when the Hoos advanced to the NCAA championship game. So I’m just making sure I’m ready, basically, and showing them that I can do it.” But I still had a lot of questions about my health and stuff like that from the coaches. “I was healthy spring and that helped out going into this fall.
“Obviously, being out for almost two years now, I’ve got some proving to do,” Horton said. UVA opens the season, its 27 th under Gelnovatch, against Xavier at 7 p.m. Horton totaled three goals in the Wahoos’ two preseason games this month, and he’s eager to finally live up to his potential. “So this is the first fall in a couple years that I feel like he’s come in mentally and physically energized.”Ī 6-foot, 185-pound senior, Horton has worked with strength and conditioning coach Peter Alston and athletic trainer Kim Hinton to strengthen his hamstrings, and he hopes his injury woes are behind him. “That piece, the injury piece, has really, really been tough for him,” Gelnovatch said. He returned in the fall and started seven games, but in the spring of 2021, when the Wahoos completed their pandemic-extended season, hamstring injuries hindered him.Īfter he recovered, Horton played for the Columbus Crew’s second team last summer, and “coming into the fall of ’21, we were all ready to try to get him going again,” Gelnovatch said.Ībout a week before Horton returned to Charlottesville, however, he tore his right MCL again, and he played in only four games for UVA last season. Not long before the COVID-19 pandemic hit in March 2020, Horton tore the medial collateral ligament in his right knee. “For the first three weeks of training he was picking up right where he left off, and then he got hurt.” In January 2020, the Cavaliers reconvened in Charlottesville, and Horton “was the best player in training,” Gelnovatch said. “I worked really hard over that winter break and came back strong.” With Dike off to Major League Soccer, “I kind of felt like the next heir to the throne,” Horton recalled this week. “He was going to be a goal-scorer and kind of a mainstay for us.” “We felt like by the time he was done here, he was going to be pretty good,” UVA head coach George Gelnovatch said of Horton, who’s from New Albany, Ohio, a suburb of Columbus.
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