[1][2] He attended Rancho Cotate High School in Rohnert Park, where he was a four-year letterwinner as a forward on the soccer team in addition to playing basketball and American football as a sophomore.
[2] Boateng played four years of college soccer at the University of California, Davis between 2015 and 2018, making 82 appearances for the Aggies, scoring six goals and tallying one assist.
[2] He was converted to a defender by Aggies head coach Dwayne Shaffer, who redshirted him in 2014 so he could learn the position from senior Ramón Martín del Campo.
[1] Boating was named the Big West Conference Defensive Player of the Year in both his junior and senior seasons.
[1] While at college, Boateng appeared for USL PDL side Portland Timbers U23s in both 2016[3] and 2017,[4] and San Francisco Glens in 2018.