Akron Zips’ Bunbury not looking to future

Akron Zips’s Teal Bunbury is one of the hottest names in the NCAA at the moment but he is not looking too far into the future.

The Hamilton-born prospect, who scored 15 goals in 18 regular season games for the Zips, admits he is not thinking what might happen next season in terms of which professional club he will end up at, rather he is focusing on the job at hand.

"Right now (the decision) is not what I am focused on," said Bunbury, as his team prepares for the Mid-American Conference tournament. "I'm focused on winning a national championship. It's in the back of my mind. It's a matter of what happens this year. I've got to see if I'm ready."

Bunbury’s father, Alex, represented the Canadian national team on more than 60 occasions and is the current goalscoring record holder at Portuguese club CS Maritimo and according to Teal’s coach at Akron, Caleb Porter, Bunbury Jnr can go on to achieve everything and more that his father has.

“I don't want to hold any player back," Porter said. "I want players to take advantage of their opportunities. But the opportunities only come if the team does well. We have a team-first mentality.

“We knew when we recruited Teal that he had some tools you don't see very often in players.

"He is a physical specimen and he's technically sound. But we also knew he had some things to learn."