May first attended SUNY Cobleskill where he was a 1972 junior college Honorable Mention (third team) All American soccer player.
He earned an associate degree from Cobleskill in 1972 and was later inducted into the school's Athletic Hall of Fame.
He then transferred to SUNY Brockport where he was a two-year starter on the men's soccer team.
[1] In 1975, The Rochester Lancers selected May in the first round of the North American Soccer League draft.
In 1978, he moved to the Cleveland Force of the Major Indoor Soccer League.