Coaching Education At Rush Summit & Rush Fest 2021

Led by Sporting Project Director, Pablo Toledo, the Coach Development Department will be actively providing coaching education workshops at both Rush Summit & Rush Fest.

Find below a brief description of the enriching coaching education experience that will be provided to all Rush coaches attending these events.

COACHING EDUCATION @ RUSH SUMMIT (July 9-11):

What’s the Rush Summit about? Every year in the month of July, Rush Summit congregates all of our clubs to meet in person for 3 days, prior to the commencement of Rush Fest.

Apart from an invaluable opportunity to debate and decide on the future of our club, Rush Summit offers an amazing space for coach education activities, on and off the field.

The Rush Coach Development Team strives to present top quality workshops for our attending coaches, as well as bring world class professionals to run these sessions.

During the upcoming edition, the Rush Soccer Development department will be highly active during Rush Summit, presenting in four different instances. The objective of the department, apart from explaining the projects and budget proposal of the 2021/22 cycle, will be to continue to work on the long term vision of the club towards sharing and developing a common Rush Way Player Development Approach among all of our partners, and debate strategies to implement it successfully at the local level.

The department’s first presentation on Friday, July 9th, at 1:00 PM CST, will provide a current status on programs and services directed to the development of players, coaches, and parents that are offered to our clubs for free, as well as present the projects that will be carried on during the 2021/22 cycle, alongside their financial implications.
On Saturday, July 10th, at 9:30 AM CST, the department will focus on presenting and debating in an open forum our Rush Way approach for player development, leading onto a field session at 4:30 PM in which the participant will have an active assessing role of the Rush Blue Thread application to be debriefed and debated in the last 20 minutes of the learning instance.
On Sunday, July 11th, at 10:30 AM CST, our last presentation will focus on covering the strategic role of FUTSAL in our long term vision and will be co-hosted by Rob Andrews, the president of our partner in this endeavor, United Futsal.

For further information and last year’s Summit content, click HERE!

COACHING EDUCATION @ RUSH FEST (July 11-16):

What’s the Rush Fest about? Rush Fest is a week long soccer festival unlike anything you’ve ever seen before. Rush Players play against other Rush teams from all over the nation and world! They can be trained by coaches from different states, backgrounds, and cultures that all teach the Rush Way in their own unique style.

This year, Rush Fest will be open for 2009 age groups. They will be playing 11v11 as this will be the first transition event moving into U13 where players will play full sided.

Coaches will enjoy a four day workshop led by Pablo Toledo, Rush Soccer’s Sporting Project Director, covering the Rush Way Player Development Approach and its field application. The learning instances will be participant centered. Coaches will be invited to discuss, present, and coach to demonstrate.

On Sunday 11th, the first coaching education meeting will be at 7:15 PM CST at the same location of the Opening Ceremony (The Crossing: The Crossing at Mid Rivers, 6000 W Geneva Dr, O’Fallon, MO 63366). The group of coaches will split out after an hour of the ceremony into another room. This first meeting will cover the schedule for the week and present the topics from a theoretical standpoint, setting up the stage for the field sessions of the following days.
On Monday 12th, the first field session will be run by Sporting Project Director, Pablo Toledo, at the Missouri Rush complex (901 Caledonia Dr, O’Fallon, Missouri 63368) at 9:00 AM CST. The exact field will be confirmed on Sunday night. Coaches will be asked to volunteer as players and share their feelings and thoughts from the player’s perspective.
On Tuesday 13th, coaches will take lead on running the session presented on Monday (or a similar one) with their teams trying to apply the ideas discussed so far. The session will be presented for guidance on our Rush Coaching Manual tool. The group will meet during the evening at 7:00 PM CST at the fields again, right after games finish to debrief on the sessions that were run in the morning and volunteer for some demos.
On Thursday 15th, one last social event will take place at the Q64 terrace at 7:00 PM CST. Apart from being an opportunity to debrief and find lessons learned, there will be a presentation on about educational resources that coaches count on for free for being part of Rush Soccer.