Brooks Thompson has signed a professional contract with the Swope Park Rangers, the USL Championship side announced last week. Thompson becomes the youngest player to sign a contract in team history.

Thompson started two preseason matches for the Rangers, a 5-0 defeat of Barton Community College on Feb. 2 and a 2-1 win at North Texas SC on Feb. 13. He was also one of five Sporting KC Academy players who trained with Sporting Kansas City at the club’s 2019 preseason camp in Scottsdale, Arizona, featuring in a shutout win over Phoenix Rising FC trialists on Jan. 23.

A native of Floyds Knobs, Indiana, Thompson has played a leading role for the Sporting Kansas City Academy U19s during the 2018-19 U.S. Soccer Development Academy campaign. He has posted a 6-2-3 record in 11 league matches, earning four shutouts with a 1.09 goals against average and an 84.6 save percentage. The 6-foot-3 goalkeeper has also competed for the Sporting KC U17s throughout 2019 Generation adidas Cup qualifying. Barnes was named to the U18/19 Best XI at the Boys Development Academy Winter Showcase last year.

The Sporting KC Academy welcomed Thompson last summer after he spent the previous two years with IMG Academy in Bradenton, Florida. He represented the IMG U-14s in 2016-17 and the IMG U17s in 2017-18, having moved to Florida from his native Indiana in the summer of 2016.