Erick Lopez Pereira, who was a senior on the boys' varsity soccer team at the International High School at Langley Park this fall, was named the U.S. Army Impact Player of the Month.
IHSLP assistant principal Daniel Sass, who is Pereira's soccer coach, academic adviser and former English teacher, nominated Pereira for the honor.
"He is the type of young man that does everything you want him to do on the field and everything and more that you want him to do off the field," Sass said. "He has overcome so many challenges in his life. Any time he's faced with a hurdle, he figures out a way -- either over or around that hurdle. It's been so much fun to watch him grow as a student-athlete, as a young man, as a person."
