Back in 2003, Taejon Christian International captured its first DODDS-Pacific Far East Boys Class A Soccer Tournament title, mainly on the shoulders of a carrot-topped striker from Toccoa Falls, Ga., named Andrew Wiese.

The junior transfer scored a Pacific region-best 30 goals, 14 of them in the Far East Tournament at Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni. He was named the tournament's Most Valuable Player and was the last non-DODDS boys athlete to earn Stars and Stripes Athlete of the Quarter honors.

He returned to Toccoa Falls, but an injury shelved him for his senior season.

Fast forward six years. Wiese is back in Korea, doing his student-teaching internship and serving as boys soccer team assistant coach for Gyeonggi Suwon International School, just up the street from Osan Air Base in the bustling metropolis of Suweon. Wiese has been hired to teach at GSIS and will be in Korea for the next two years.

Great, isn't it, when the great ones come back to the Pacific where they enjoyed a measure of success? :)