Club Support, Membership Support
Programs & Services
Rush Soccer offers programs and services that are crucial to the development of young soccer players and to the growth of a successful youth soccer club. Listed below are the Rush Soccer programs and services that are provided to our membership.
For Clubs
Services
Services are offered to the local cubs by Rush Soccer, and have no timeline associated with the individual service.
NK Varazdin Rush
NK Varazdin, Rush's very own professional men's team in Croatia, has established itself as a breeding ground for emerging stars. The club’s unwavering focus on nurturing young players has resulted in consistent promotions from the youth ranks to the professional team, with several players making their mark in some of Europe’s most prominent leagues.
Cedar Stars Rush/Virginia Beach United/Flatirons Rush
Rush Soccer has ownership in and operates three different USL League 2 teams within the United States. Cedar Stars Rush in New Jersey, Virginia Beach United in Virginia, Flatirons Rush in Colorado. The USL League two is the highest level of development soccer in the U.S., and all 3 teams are proud participants. The clubs are home to a number of top players from around the world that are focused on taking the necessary steps towards the professional game. Top youth players from around the Rush have the opportunity to play with one of these teams and receive a better chance of making it to the professional level.
Rush Soccer Development
Rush Soccer provides great exclusive resources for its coaches, parents, and players. Through the Rush Soccer Development website, The Rush Coaching Manual, and our Rush Discord Community, we present a broad variety of top level online learning and training programs, as well as in person educational events. This portfolio of programs includes a Rush podcast, webinars, a blog, a curriculum, a season planner, a Train @ Home program, and goalkeeping specific education, among many others.
Rush Select
The Rush Select program is an international program in which Rush Soccer forms Select teams (All-Star teams) that are comprised of the top Rush players from across all of our domestic and international branches in the U13-U19 age groups. These teams attend various events, both in the US and internationally on a yearly basis. The players get to see new ideas, play with top talent, learn from new coaches and make new friends. The programs aim is to get the top talent together and compete in tournaments to win and make the Rush brand even more of a formidable force.
Rush Fest
Rush Fest is a five day Rush specific soccer camp in Colorado. Rush Fest is arguably the best program that is offered within the club for the U12 age group. The event is an exciting festival, starting with an opening ceremony attended by over 1200 players and parents. Over the five days the teams play six competitive games, training sessions, and classroom sessions. In addition, in the evenings there are social events for the players including a closing ceremony, gift exchange, and tourism events to see the local area. Rush Fest ranges in numbers, but will usually expect over 50 teams. This is a wonderful opportunity for young players to get to meet other players from across the Rush Nation, be saturated in the Rush Way philosophy, and provide players, coaches, and parents opportunities to learn about the Rush.
College Advisory Program Gateway
The College Advisory Program for Rush Soccer is an in-depth, EXCLUSIVE, player-focused program that gives Rush players support, services, and resources to maximize their success, whether they plan to play collegiate soccer or not. With over 11,000 high school players across the country, CAP is able to provide opportunities to be seen by college coaches that can not be matched. All of our Rush players receive FREE access to CAP Navigate and exclusive materials and support. Including; CAP University, ACT/SAT Prep Courses and Academic Assistance. That makes Rush Soccer the leader in youth soccer and the largest and most comprehensive College Advisory Program in the country!In addition, Rush Soccer hosts College Exposure Camps to help colleges to observe and work with potential recruits within Rush. CAP will also work with the International Director to assist in connecting the dots to American College. (This gateway is specifically for Individual Rush Clubs CAP Directors)
Rush Select Academy
The Rush Select Academy is Rush Soccer’s official residency academy. The program offers Student-Athletes an environment that nurtures both academic and athletic excellence. Rush Academy’s college-preparatory curriculum, provides high school-aged students, grades K-12, the opportunity to grow and mature academically in preparation for the next level. The program utilizes a highly disciplined intellectual approach in the classroom that our players can easily adapt to a college setting once they have graduated. Cultivating our students throughout their pre-season, in-season, and post-season not only enhances their college recruitment and placement but also gives them the tools necessary to successfully navigate the life of a college-level Student-Athlete. Our elite training and academic support have been proven to maximize our Student-Athletes individual potential and abilities.
Rush Education
Rush Education is a distinguished educational institution that stands out for its commitment to meeting rigorous academic standards while fostering a balanced environment for student-athletes. Our accredited brick-and-mortar school, adheres to traditional classroom instruction, utilizing an accredited curriculum recognized by organizations such as the AdvancED – Cognia Accreditation Commission, the NCA Commission on Accreditation and School Improvement, the Northwest Accreditation Commission, and the SAC’s Commission on Accreditation and School Improvement.
R.E.A.C.H.
REACH, Rush Equipment Assisting Children, is a program dedicated to assisting our international Rush partner clubs by providing much needed Rush uniforms and equipment. Rush Soccer asks their members to donate new and used soccer equipment, such as balls, cleats, shin guards, and uniforms so they can be distributed throughout the world to players in need. Volunteers and donations that assist Rush with the packaging and shipping of these items are paramount in the success of this program. REACH was highlighted on Good Morning America, USA Today, and CBS News. In addition to the aforementioned service, our players who volunteer to assist in REACH, called OutREACH Ambassadors, have the opportunity to travel abroad to conduct humanitarian services with our Rush Partners around the world.
Summit
The Rush Summit is a conference each year that all coaches from the Rush Soccer organization meet at a centralized location to share the Rush Way Philosophy. This three day event is held in conjunction with the Rush Fest in Colorado. Anyone is welcome. This past year we were lucky enough to have a youth coach from Real Madrid conduct a presentation and training session, Steve Nicol ex Liverpool and Scotland International as well as previous MLS coach with the New England Revolution hold a Q&A as well as a field session, Jerome de Bontin GM of the New York Red Bulls, and Laurent Papillon who is heavily involved with UEFA and the French Football Federation.
Coaching Education / Exchange
Rush Soccer provides great resources for its coaches. Through our Coaching Education and Exchange programs we provide information for coaching of all ability and experience levels. Working with Colorado Rush and the Titan House (see below) we can set up coaching exchange programs where we will host foreign coaches for extended periods of time. We also have the ability to set up our domestic coaches to work in foreign clubs. Sharing our resources we can provide more for our coaches than any other club in the world. Each year, the Rush organize an event for coaches to participate in. To date we have visited France, Holland, Germany and Spain. The events are for anyone in the Rush organization that has the time and money!
Rush Travel
Rush Soccer puts on International Soccer Experiences around the world. Each travel package to Europe and Central America is custom and are always carefully designed to create great value and to meet the goals of the trip. Our experienced leadership team has access to top facilities, tournaments, training sessions and games with the world’s most recognized clubs. We pride ourselves on delivering some of the most memorable and compelling experiences for both players and their families.
Website
Rush offers a template website to all of our partners. The Rush web site has an enormous amount of information for staff, coaches, parents and players. A portion of the web is controlled by Rush Headquarters, while the majority is maintained locally. At Rush Soccer, we provide support to all of the webmasters for each local club.
Hudl
Hudl is a performance analysis platform primarily used in sports to help teams and athletes improve by offering video analysis, statistics, and other tools. It allows coaches and players to live stream or upload game footage, practice videos, and highlight reels, which can then be reviewed, analyzed, and shared. Hudl provides detailed breakdowns of plays, individual player performances, and team strategies, helping athletes and coaches improve skills and tactics.
Guest Playing / Player Loan Program
Rush Soccer facilitates a guest playing system that is quite popular. Whether the player is looking to guest play, or a coach needs to fill a spot on a roster, we have placed hundreds of players through our network successfully. The program is quite simple, request a tournament, date and location and there is a good chance we can fulfil your needs. More opportunities for growth and bring the Rush together.
Capelli Uniforms and Equipment
Capelli Sport is the official uniform sponsor of Rush Soccer and is able to provide our membership with uniforms and equipment. They have worldwide shipping capabilities and can assist in helping all of our programs around the world look their best in the Rush “R”. Capelli is a Company that is partnered with Rush to help in attaining the mission of Rush Soccer. Capelli compliments the goals and objectives of the Rush and recognizes its vision.
Sponsorships
Rush Soccer has contracts with many different companies. These contracts help with sponsorships and marketing the club by providing many perks.
MLS Next
Rush Soccer allows the top players in Rush clubs that are not currently in the MLS Next program to register as discovery players for one of the Rush Clubs that does have the MLS Next Program. Through an online request form, certified by the players Technical Director, Rush Soccer helps connect players with MLS Next clubs to get the experience and benefit of playing in the top youth league in the United States whilst still being able to play with their local club team.
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Rush Legal Assistance
Rush Soccer understands that all of our clubs are running a business and at times you may need legal advice. We have contracted an experienced lawyer who understands the soccer world and the intricacies of sports within a non-for profit. His aim is to assist our clubs whenever they may need. He bills at an incredibly reduced rate as he is interested in seeing the growth of soccer happen in the US rather than making money off of the Rush. If you club may ever find themselves in a situation that required legal, we are here to assist.
Tournament Services
Under the direction of the SPI Tournament Director, Rush Soccer has implemented a program to assist local clubs with the marketing, administration and income possibilities for their tournament. Tournament Marketing on the Rush Soccer Tournament Website, using the economies of scales of all the Rush Soccer events to encourage more sponsorship to be filtered down to the local level as well as exclusive tournament packet assistance to help with the efficiency of the events are all part of the service provided.
Marketing Assistance
The Rush National Marketing team sends a monthly “Marketing Digest” with resource links, tools, help, graphic and video materials for all clubs to use. This recap document comes along with a content-focused newsletter for clubs to catch up on Rush news. With over 200 editable graphics, 500+ high quality Rush pictures, dozens of promo videos and a request based assistance, the Creative team provides all the assets a club needs to succeed in promoting & market itself in its local area. Marketing also provides support for local websites and helps clubs generate engaging content on social media via the global program.
For Membership
Programs
Programs are offered by the individual club to their membership, and have a timeline associated.
School of Excellence
School of Excellence (SofE) is a multi-week training program designed and modeled after the elite programs of European Professional Clubs. School of Excellence programs have existed in many top programs in Europe for the past 30 years. Players like Lindsay Horan, Lionel Messi, Christian Pulisic and Cristiano Ronaldo began their careers as soccer-crazed eight year olds. As a direct result of the consistent training that they received through such schools, now they are regarded as the world's elite players.
The Center
The Center is a before school program that is tailored toward the athlete that wants more. The Center runs for an hour session and is all technique based. A local club’s best technical coach should lead this program. It is all about refining a player's ability on the ball.
Peer Tutoring Program
The Peer Tutoring Program simply means anyone in the Rush has the opportunity to train with any team in the Rush. The Rush encourages players to play at a higher level within their age group or at an older age group. This is a core program in the manipulation of the training environment for the growth of individual player within the club. Elite girls should be sent to play with boys. Elite boys should be pushed up one two three age groups depending on ability.
Elite Program
The Elite Training program is designed for players that possess unique talents and characteristics – both the passion and the ability. The unique talents are the player’s technical abilities within the game of soccer. This individual is gifted and consistently performs in the top percent of their respective team both in games and training. The unique characteristics are traits such as desire, dedication, self motivation, intelligence, punctuality, and leadership to name a few. In a nutshell, he/she has a passion to excel. The Elite program is open to all ages but is limited to those players selected by the head coach.
Blue Friday
This program is a combination of a multitude of programs offered by a club. The goal of having this type of program is to promote club unity. A local club should choose their best three or four programs and then host them all in one place at the same time, most often on Fridays. This allows the kids to see and notice that they are apart of something bigger. When players and parents see this, they will find more passion for their club.
Preseason Friendlies
The Preseason Friendlies is an event for all competitive teams to participate in prior to the start of the Fall and Spring seasons. The uniqueness of the event circles around the opportunity for Rush teams to play other Rush teams that are a year older or younger, teams in different divisions, as well as girls teams playing boys teams. Oftentimes, the schedule includes matchups that would not happen in the regular season.
Rush Adult Soccer League
This program targets all adults interested in learning and enjoying the game of soccer. The goal of RASL is to educate recreational coaches, parents and anyone interested in getting more out of the game through both teaching and creating a competitive environment. The sessions run for Multiple consecutive Fridays during the playing seasons. It is recommended that each session is 75 minutes with the first 30 minutes scheduled for training and drills, and the last 45 minutes for league play. The trainings are designed so that the participants learn basic skills and drills that can be easily translated into the coaching of recreational players and a better understanding of the game. New training topics will be introduced each week. The league is designed to create a fun and competitive environment allowing participants to get match experience. The men's league will be 7v7 and the women will play 4v4. Through RASL, we hope to create an environment where the love of the game is passed from one generation to the next!
Mighty Mites & Turbo Tots
The Mighty Mites (U4) and Turbo Tots (U5/U6) programs are a unique opportunity to introduce your child to soccer. It is an eight week program which is run in conjunction with our School of Excellence (U8-U10) program. Mighty Mites and Turbo Tots will give your child a great start to this lifetime sport by engaging motor skills, ball skills, and concepts of small sided games. Sessions are led by Rush Coaching staff and last for 45 minutes. Sessions are formatted to allow parents to participate with their children during the session if required. The emphasis is very firmly on FUN! We feel that kids will be more comfortable and develop faster in this type of environment.
TOPSoccer / Thunder
TOPSoccer (The Outreach Program for Soccer) is a community-based program for young athletes with disabilities, organized by youth soccer association volunteers. The program is designed to bring the opportunity of learning and playing soccer to any boy or girl, age 5-21, who has a mental or physical disability. The Rush Thunder is a member of USYS, Total Outreach Program for Soccer (TOPS). This is a national program for soccer players with special needs and was established to promote the game of soccer in a unique segment of our club’s community. The Thunder will play once a week for eight weeks in both or each season culminating with a Player-Parents game or a tournament with another TOPS Soccer Program locally. The program is free for all its players with only ONE prerequisite for each player…he or she must want to have fun playing the game of soccer.
Friday Night Finishing
The Friday Night Finishing program is open to higher level players of all ages.Those of Friday Night Finishing is to provide forwards and other attacking players the opportunity for many shooting repetitions in front of goal. Each player gets approximately 80 shots per session and it is our goal not to have more than a 12:1 player to coach ratio. Goalkeepers are selected by the DOC Goalkeeping.<br /> This program benefited the likes of , Conor Casey, Lindsay Horan, James Riley, and Todd Dunivant, when they were youth players. Obviously, the extra effort to train from 7-8:30 am paid off for the players and the club. This program will have an impact on a club’s results at State Cup, Regionals and or any high level event.
Summer / Winter Jam
Rush Summer/Winter Jam is a training/game program held in the summer and the winter designed for boys and girls ages 5 to 10 years old. Every participant will be trained by Rush Staff with volunteer coaches assisting throughout the sessions with 30 minutes of instruction and 30 minutes of games. All games will be either 3v3 or 4v4 to allow players more touches on the ball in a short amount of time. Games are very fast-paced which makes the experience for each player more unique.
Captains
The Captains program is a leadership program provided by coaches for each team within the competitive branch. The idea of the program is to help develop those players who have real leadership potential into real leaders. The best case scenario is selecting appropriate candidates after their U11 year, and to have one of those three captains still in place when their respective team enters U19.
Staff Training
Staff training is a 9 week program for each Division during both Fall and Spring seasons. The DOC’s are responsible for communicating and conducting their divisions staff training. Staff training is currently broken down into four components, 4v4, box on box, divisional scrimmages (Nero vs Azul etc) and 7v7.
Alumni Week
Alumni week is hands down the best week for any Rush Soccer Alumni. Not only is it the week before Christmas, but it is a time when old teammates and coaches can get together, play some amazing soccer “The Rush Way”, and socialize with players and coaches they grew up with. Alumni week should be 4-5 days of soccer, and should be advertised on Social media and on email so they word can get out to all Alumni to come and play great soccer.