The 5-foot-8, 145-pound senior forward led the Earwigs to a 13-1-1 record and the Southern Section Division 6 tournament championship this past season. Michael scored 22 goals and passed for 14 assists, tallying seven goals in Dunn's five-game run to the sectional title. The CIF Division 6 Player of the Year, Michael scored the game-winning goal in the sectional title game in both 2015 and 2017. He concluded his prep soccer career with 74 goals and 43 assists.
Michael has maintained a weighted 3.81 GPA in the classroom. He has signed a national letter of intent to play soccer on scholarship at the University of California, Santa Barbara beginning this fall.
A native of Sierra Leone in West Africa, Michael has volunteered locally as part of a fundraising campaign to benefit cancer research. He has also donated his time distributing goods to the homeless and to the Craig Bellamy Foundation, which runs a soccer academy in Sierra Leone. "Rodney was literally quicker on the ball than my defenders were off the ball," said Sam Mahtani, head coach of Maranatha High. "I've never seen someone move so quickly with such change of speed and direction. He was impossible to defend."
