Kyle Duncan enjoyed an outstanding season for the Red Bulls. (Photo courtesy of MLS)

The Red Bulls have announced their team awards for the 2020 MLS season.

Brian White was named the offensive player of the year, and Kyle Duncan has earned defensive player of the year honors. Seventeen-year-old Caden Clark was selected newcomer of the year, and goalkeeper Kendall McIntosh was named the club’s humanitarian of the year.

White, a native of Flemington, N.J. led the team in goals, scoring several important times down the stretch and helped New York reach the sixth-seed in the Eastern Conference. He scored five regular season goals and found the back of the net in the playoffs.

Duncan, a Brooklyn, N.Y. native and Red Bulls Academy alum, was a standout on the backline finishing second in the league in duels won (180), fifth in interceptions (49) and seventh amongst field players in recoveries (168), according to Opta. The right back appeared in all of the team’s 24 games played, starting 21 of 23 regular season matches as well as the playoff contest. Duncan also contributed offensively with three goals and four assists, both career-highs in his third MLS season.

Clark burst onto the scene in the second half of the season, earning an MLS contract and scoring a game-winning goal in his first MLS appearance against Atlanta United. Clark followed up the heroics four days later with a long-range strike to earn a road point against Toronto FC. He was the fifth youngest player in league history to score in his debut, and the youngest player to score in his first two MLS appearances. Clark entered the franchise record books as the third youngest player in club history to score a goal, behind Eddie Gaven and Jozy Altidore.

McIntosh sparked an open and honest conversation amongst teammates and sporting staff, and leading player-driven initiatives in response to issues of social injustice. He organized the Red Bulls player-led “Unite, Rethink, Reform” initiative to raise awareness and drive conversations around issues of racism and social injustice, culminating with the organization’s opening of the first mini-pitch in partnership with the Black Players for Change (that included RBNY players and BPC leadership meeting and sharing experiences and insight with high school soccer players from West Side High School in Newark, N.J.). McIntosh and his teammates identified and raised funds for three organizations, the NAACP legal defense and education fund, the National Black Child Development Institute and the Thurgood Marshall College Fund.

He was not signed by the Red Bulls for 2021 and was selected by Sporting Kansas City in the MLS re-entry draft.

Front Row Soccer editor Michael Lewis has covered 13 World Cups (eight men, five women), seven Olympics and 25 MLS Cups. He has written about New York City FC, New York Cosmos, the New York Red Bulls and both U.S. national teams for Newsday and has penned a soccer history column for the Guardian.com. Lewis, who has been honored by the Press Club of Long Island and National Soccer Coaches Association of America, is the former editor of BigAppleSoccer.com. He has written seven books about the beautiful game and has published ALIVE AND KICKING The incredible but true story of the Rochester Lancers. It is available at Amazon.com.