On Russell Cicerone's way to Kalamazoo, he landed in Buffalo.

After originally planning on playing soccer at Western Michigan, the recent Birmingham Brother Rice two-sport star had a last-minute change of heart and is now playing on the pitch as a fab frosh at the University of Buffalo.

That change of heart had to do with former WMU head coach Stu Riddle taking the reins at Buffalo a few months back and Cicerone desiring to follow the man that recruited him as a prepster.

Cicerone, also a star forward on the hockey rink while at Brother Rice, won state championships with the Warriors in soccer and on the ice.

Because of the ruling last year that made male soccer players to pick between playing for their high school or club teams, Cicerone didn't suit up for Brother Rice as a senior in 2012.

As a junior captain for the Warriors, he registered 16 goals and eight assists.

The gene pool he comes from has a rich pedigree in the world of athletics.

His mom, Mary, is the legendary girls basketball coach at Birmingham Marian and his sister Anna was a prep hoops and soccer star at Marian that just finished an excellent college-career on the pitch at WMU.

Buffalo is lucky to have the next in line in the SOSO CLUTCH Cicerone clan