Coastal Rush Podcast
The Coastal Rush Podcast covers news and events about the Coastal Rush Soccer Club along the Gulf Coast of Florida and Alabama. Our goal is to build a soccer clubs that is Progressive, Ambitious and Comprehensive in its thinking and its actions. Coastal Rush comprises of 3000+ players that are members of Bayside Rush, PBFC Rush, Pensacola FC Rush, Mobile Rush, Baldwin Rush, Emerald Coast Rush and Gulf South Rush
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Coastal Rush Season Recap 23/24: Celebrating Player Growth
As the whistle blows on our latest episode, we're reminded that soccer is more than just a game; it's a launch pad for growth and success. We discuss the impressive strides our boys and girls squads have made and look ahead to the strategic enhancements planned for our showcase teams, including the introduction of a guest playing network. Our celebration carries on with an acknowledgment of the synergy within our clubs and community, which has created a hotbed for soccer talent. Hear how we're fostering individual brilliance and preparing our players for the next phase of their soccer pursuits, within the nourishing ecosystem of Coastal Rush.
We're not just kicking a ball; we're kicking off dreams and opening doors to college soccer programs. In this episode, we put the spotlight on the power of opportunity that arises when top players are away, allowing hidden gems within our teams to shine. A personal story about a young aspirant's ambitions illustrates the dynamic pathways Coastal Rush is creating for youth soccer players aiming for collegiate careers. We also preview an upcoming college combine event that epitomizes our organization's excellence. Concluding with a look at our comprehensive planning for player development, we invite you to join this journey of growth, success, and community spirit.
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Hello everybody. This is Coach John, and I am here with Coach Bill and Coach Joe, and it's been a while since we've done one of these, so we wanted to sit down and record another podcast, talk about both the season behind us and also kind of lean in on some of the stuff we've got going for next season. So how are we doing, guys? Yeah, excited.
Speaker 2:Thanks for inviting us up.
Speaker 1:Doing good. All right, so let's chat about last year. Joe, we'll start with you first. So we had girls RL.
Speaker 2:Tell us what you think about the season. To be able to have our own league that we're playing in in the state of Florida, to be able to have home games, was amazing. I know we've always had to travel every weekend and so ECNL people promised us we'd have home matches and they delivered and so half of our season was away at some of the more prestigious teams you know, like FKK, orlando City, jfcs, and we were able to play those teams home and away. So exciting and I know we'll talk about the results but able to pretty much sweep our league and then go on to the state finals. So it was an exciting year for the gals.
Speaker 1:And for y'all that are new, that are maybe just joined one of the home clubs or you're new to coastal in general, what Joe's talking about is, in the past we would also. We would always try to find leaks to get into. Being based in the panhandle, all of us struggled for home games. Everybody would say, oh, you know, you can meet us halfway or you can come. Like home games for our kids in the panhandle was not something we are used to. So this was the first time. And how long have you been coaching you soccer A?
Speaker 1:couple of decades so it's a pretty big deal and for you as the family members, I'm sure you enjoy it, because we had our crowds locally were great.
Speaker 2:That was exciting to be out there at the complex. We were always complimented on how well things were run. A big shout-out to Align and the people out at Ashton Brosnahan. But we were complimented and halfway for some of these teams always meant Auburndale, which was not halfway for us, and so it really was exciting to have home games and the boys and the girls playing alongside each other and just the club atmosphere, everyone pulling for each other. It was pretty cool, pretty cool.
Speaker 1:So, bill, let's talk about the boys side. Yeah, I mean same thing.
Speaker 3:We're really excited to have home games. That was just fantastic and not have to travel eight hours to play every weekend. So that was really good. And the success I mean getting to play against prominent clubs all over the state with our kids and see them have success and end up in state finals. I think we had maybe eight teams in the state finals, which was amazing.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so it's kind of shocking. I mean, obviously we were all watching the stats throughout the year and you know some of our teams got some really great games. I remember when you and I were in Denver last year and we were playing at the NPL National Finals and you and I were watching the games we got there. We're like man. Could you imagine if we got these kind of games week in and week out?
Speaker 3:Yeah, I mean that's the goal is just to keep moving through the ranks and getting against better competition. I think next year is going to be exciting, but with the additions we have going on. But the competition this year was good.
Speaker 1:We had got a lot of great opportunities for our players, yeah, I mean, and we did have some games where our teams were pretty dominant and then at the same time, the next Saturday is a dominant game and then Sunday we're scratching by one one trying to get that last minute goal or one zero game, and so it gave us a good variety, uh, for a league as a whole.
Speaker 1:And a huge compliment to um for y'all to know, laurie and chris, with florida club leagues, they run the league and administer it. Um, I know, on our side, administratively, we felt everything was done just about as professional as you could. There was a lot of moving pieces that goes into organizing a league with that many teams in the state, so many different locations. You've got referees, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. It was about as good as management as you could. And for a club like ours we need that. We need professionalism, we need things to be set up and start and finish when they say they're going to do. We have our families that have multiple kids traveling. So I was very, very pleased with the outcome and how the league was run as a whole.
Speaker 2:Yep, they couldn't be more pleased with everything that they said they would deliver and again, I know that they were pretty excited about what we were able to do from our end.
Speaker 1:So let's chat a little bit about the results, because I remember I did a big old post at the end and I mean all of us sitting here were very much in the mindset that we wanted to do this to develop and like that's our core focus and the environment that we've created. But the results you got to take a minute and step back and look at what we were able to accomplish. So we had eight teams win the North Division and then we had three teams finish second and a third and the last team that finished in the top four.
Speaker 2:So there we each. The girls have six age groups, the boys have six age groups. Five of the six teams won the Northern division, and so that that was amazing. And then three of them won the entire state basically state cup champions, if you want to talk about how it was in the old days and so they're going on to the regionals, and so five winning their league is unprecedented. We dominated Kind of to be honest, kind of like in our NPL days. We did really well. We sent a lot of teams to Denver and then we felt this was the right step and we took it and we've done really well. And I know we're excited about the future and we'll talk about that shortly.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 3:Then on the boys' side we had three that are yeah, I mean, we had a lot of success on the boys' side too, and we've got a couple of teams headed to Dallas and winning the state, beating the teams from South Florida, some of the prominent big clubs that have dominated over the years, and we ended up on the right side of things this time around, and it's good, I mean, for me, it just shows that when we work together in this area, what the potential is, and that's something that we haven't done enough of in the past, and it's exciting that we have a lot of like-minded people that are trying to work together.
Speaker 3:It's not going to be perfect, but we're seeing a level of success that's pretty impressive.
Speaker 1:So for the, and then to the numbers points we went through and calculated all. So, this year Coastal Rush RL produced 144 wins, 22 draws, 39 losses, so an average winning percentage of just over 70%.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and what's good? Obviously, collectively is fantastic, but for the individual player development it's so key Our youngsters up here are being challenged, I feel, for the first time, and able to push and train with like-minded players, like-minded coaches. And so for the player development, that's kind of what I'm focused on is making sure every individual player continues to develop. The leagues that we're in and how we're going forward seems to match up properly.
Speaker 1:So, speaking of development I also want to touch on we still have teams that played in the NPL this year and we had a good handful that made final four. And then a huge shout out to our 2009 boys who go in as the fourth seed, win their game on Saturday to go into the finals and win the finals in PKs, so they're going back to Denver. So you have our first RL 09 boys winning the state championship an RL and then you have our 09 boys with the GSPL winning that. So you now have collectively held 30, 40 kids in that one age group getting access to these different leagues and competitions and playing.
Speaker 2:And again, I know, as we go forward we've got some exciting changes in that, in our showcase teams, and so we're developing all the players, not just the handful, at different levels. So the top tier players, those that are still pushing to get to that top tier, we have avenues for them to continue to develop.
Speaker 1:Well, and so let's take a minute and talk about next year on showcase, because I think that's the showcase is something that we've really tried to wrap our head Like how do we, how can this program continue to get better and better and, honestly, get better access for these players, not only with their home club teams but also which this year was a little tough, kind of managing both, but put them on a platform that they can still be successful, get into the bigger events and continue to grow? Because we showcased players last year, some of them had great seasons and moved into the RL and that was the whole point. Is putting pressure on RL rosters to say, if you have players that either unfortunately have injuries in the sport, knock on wood. But at the same time, we have some players that just develop at different stages. So a player from last spring to this spring could be very different and we want to make sure there's a pathway for them. So let's chat about if you want to take this one, the transition next year for Showcase.
Speaker 3:Yeah. So I think this year the problem is we're growing and so we're learning. So the attempt of putting the Showcase teams in league play this year created a sort of tug of war with the home clubs and the showcase teams and there was a lot of demand on those families and those kids. And so next year, organizing the showcase teams in a way that they truly are showcase teams allows us as directors to control the schedule for those teams when they're training, when they're playing, and that way we can decompress the conflicts, you know, take away not have the conflicts with the home club. So the kids can still play at the home club with their friends that they've grown up with and have those opportunities on the weekends, but then they can still get together with a collection of players from across the area and go to bigger events and travel out of town and things like that.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and then I know one thing we talked about is showcase players, getting kind of precedent on the guest playing network. I mean we processed hundreds of guest playing requests across Coastal where you're able to. You know your home club is ECU but you aren't playing on weekends so you're like, hey, I'm going to jump on a Perdido team or a PFC and so that's where that guest playing network we've had a lot of kids get to meet new people, meet new friends, play in a different system, play under a different coach and not have to feel like they're. They don't have to search for it. It's a lot of work to guest play. It's a lot of paperwork, it's a lot of processing. You've got uniform changes and the Coastal Network. We made it super, super simple and we're hoping this change into the showcase programming to Bill's point is something that's going to help it get even better going forward.
Speaker 3:Yeah, and I think the showcase players are going to have a lot of opportunity out of it because they're going to be getting to know each other, which are players from all the different clubs collectively, all the different home clubs. There's going to be a lot of demand on the ECNL players already, the RL players. So when you start looking for guest players among the home clubs, they know each other through the showcase teams and it's going to be a natural connection and kind of easy for them to slide in and guest play. I think.
Speaker 1:No, I hope y'all are as excited as we are. We really thought through this a lot to try to say, hey, how can we make this a win-win? And so it's going to be. The fall is going to be like we'll start this in late January, early August for showcase and then, once we get all the way to the winter time, can stop and assess and see where everything needs to go to then pivot to what the needs are for the spring, whereas I think last year was kind of tough with the league and we have kids from alabama, kids from florida, we have multiple home clubs that were traveling.
Speaker 3:It was a lot for everybody and the league schedule was unpredictable. It changed very much. The the nPL league schedule changed a lot. It was unpredictable, and I think that's the biggest thing is going to. The new format allows us more control over the scheduling and so it'll be predictable. Parents and families can plan around it. They can plan around what home club events they want to do as well.
Speaker 1:Let's take a minute. I know we talk a lot about RL in these podcasts, a lot about Showcase. Let's talk about the home clubs for a quick second. I'm going to speak strictly for Perdido. We were always curious what this environment would look like in Coastal.
Speaker 1:When we added this and we had some, I've got to say the home club environment, I think, has just continued to improve. We still have great tournaments we're going to. We still have great tournaments we're going to. We still have strong competition. We've enjoyed the games we get, even when we're playing against other coastal home clubs. At the end of the day the competition's still there, you still want to win, but at the end of it it's much more of like congratulating and like, hey, good job, and there's some camaraderie there.
Speaker 1:But we also have a lot more kids coming to play soccer and that's what's been really exciting is when these RL players are there. They do, they're great players and they take a lot of minutes. So with them I mean this essentially being absent for some of the season. We've had players come in that are getting a lot more minutes at the home club. They're getting a lot better. We've seen more success through our high school programs in Mobile, baldwin County and in the Panhandle this year and I've got to think it's because I mean these minutes that they're getting outside of their high school seasons is much, much higher than when you had all of our kids compressed and playing pretty much. You know, 100% of the time is now we have more minutes with more kids within the same community. So I mean I know you guys can speak for PFC, but how is that? How have you all felt?
Speaker 2:Just working together. I mean, like you said just under the umbrella, if some home club needs something, it's a quick text and things get done and again, just the opportunities our players are getting is fantastic. So these showcase youngsters are going to be able to train together here and there and then also be able to then go and play in front of college coaches, and so every year we kind of rethink things and just at the home clubs it's just this healthy working together and the results kind of bear out. And NPL has been great for us but, like you said, the schedule was really tight and difficult and now we're able to go off into the showcase and then anything that the home clubs need is taken care of. I guess people put out on Slack network and I don't know what that is, but things get done.
Speaker 3:I send a text and then things go out on slack and then things get done yeah, I think the, the home club players, the ones that are not playing in the showcase or the rl, like they're getting more minutes at the home club and they're having to take more responsibility because you got some of the players that the team has always relied on. Whether you're at perdido, baysideside, pfc, wherever you are, those guys are gone playing, or girls are gone playing with the RL teams, and now it's an opportunity for those other kids to step up and take more responsibility and get more minutes. And that's where I think you're talking about you seeing development that we wouldn't have seen. Yep, because it's easy when you're alongside someone who's top, top notch to rely on them. But what happens? Who steps up when they go out?
Speaker 2:And that goes back to the core of this is individual player development, all the different levels, and even it trickles down to the academies us working together. I know, coach, we had the University of West Florida men come out and train with all the academies. Just the excitement and everything out there. Everyone working together, exchanging emails and then playing friendlies together. It's just amazing. Working together and the academies that's. I have my day job as a college stuff, but I love to see all the youngsters out there working hard, laughing, smiling Again. Our job as coaches for that group is just to inspire youngsters, that's it, and to be able to have the UWF men and women come out and others come and help. That inspires these youngsters. Our goal is simple to inspire the wee ones, and that, I think, has been what we've been able to do.
Speaker 1:Well, I'll share a funny story. So this past weekend, um, I was at the fields with my youngest, who was a 2014, and had to jump in and coach Cause we had there was a coaching conflict with another coach and so, um, I got to play against another home club, but then coastal, and this one little player on the other team was phenomenal. Again, he's 2014, right? So first time I've ever seen the kid play. So I go talk to the other coach. I was like, hey, who is this kid? And so I introduced myself to the kid. I just said, hey, love watching you play and get it. And he said Coach, sean, I'm playing for a coastal team one day. And I was like that is so cool, this nine-year-old is out.
Speaker 1:He is somebody that I am. He's on my radar because he was such a good little player and I was like how cool is that that this kid now has ambition locally. Now it's like okay, he sees a path. I got to do well now, so later on I can be one of those players.
Speaker 2:There is a pathway and that gets us back to again all the way through college. You had mentioned that Coastal Rush had the most college signees out of the entire coastal network in the country.
Speaker 1:So tell us a little bit more. What Joe's talking about is Rush. You know the Rush family, the corporate Rush, if you want to call it, that tracks all the college signings throughout the entire year, and Josh Tyler who heads up that CAP program, the college placement program for Rush. He reached out to me he said, man, are these numbers right? I was like what are you talking about? He's like you guys have signed over 50 players in a college based on this spreadsheet. I was like, yeah, I was like we've had our programs working. We're putting kids not only.
Speaker 1:I mean, we've had some, as you all know, big Division I signings. We've had some Division II signings, we've had a lot of JUCO and D3. But it's like I said, what our goal was this year is we hired Felipe on the boys, we have Nick Cooper on the girls and their focus is to look at our network, placing kids in relationships with colleges. That they know is a good fit. And you may feel that a D2 is a good fit, maybe it is a D1. There may be a D1 you think is a good fit, maybe it's a D2. And you would then have the JUCO networks and so, anyway, yeah, the opportunities that we have for the boys and girls now.
Speaker 2:There's more signing in college right now, and facts are our friends. I made that saying up, but not not really.
Speaker 1:I probably took it from someone, but facts are our friends and, and and we are signing more to college opportunities.
Speaker 2:So our path, where our pathway and our network is, is working.
Speaker 1:That there, there's the proof well, and so we have today's the 14th of may. We, when we're doing this, tomorrow's the 15th, we have our college combine. It's the second time we've, when we're doing this, tomorrow's the 15th, we have our college combine. It's the second time we've ever done it. We have coaches reaching out to us. We have more.
Speaker 1:I think we'll have 25, 30 coaches out there that are coming in for just a one. I mean, it's literally come in. It's a one-day event. I didn't think we'd get that many coaches. I thought last year we had about a dozen that came out. But these coaches are looking at our player pool, they're looking at our organization, saying they've obviously done something right. We put over.
Speaker 1:At this point I think we're at, if not over, 60 signings this year, and it's not just, you know, rel kids or showcase kids. We have a lot of home club kids that are getting signings as well. So the network is working, the pathway is there and you know, that's something that I keep thinking about the little nine-year-old I was watching this past weekend. Like he's in this thing If parents are local and he's in it for eight, nine, ten years, I mean, yeah, he's got a pretty clear path all the way into that pro program easily, without any kind of friction.
Speaker 1:And I think, unfortunately, in youth soccer there's a lot of friction as you come up, do I need to change clubs? Do I need to change clubs? Do I need to move? Do I need to go play for this team way outside of my area? And that friction can either set kids Sometimes it can set a kid forward, don't get me wrong but a lot of times it can set a kid back and I think we've removed a lot of that friction with what we've done and hopefully it's something that we can continue to grow off of.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I mean here in the panhandle. We're all working together, so the future is bright for all these youngsters.
Speaker 1:Well, let's talk about the future. Is you know, some of the major changes from this year to next year is we're going from we're increasing our training for our kids going forward and we've just adjusted some of our coaching staff, our RL kids going forward and we've just adjusted some of our coaching staff. I'll ask you, like you know, bill, talking about the just the training aspect of what we were trying to accomplish, I mean we saw, I mean we were successful, so why not just keep things the exact same way? And when we all sat down in the room and we looked at this, it was one trying to align with ECNL standards. But you some reasons why we changed what we did for the training sessions.
Speaker 3:Well, just what we consistently heard feedback from the kids that were involved in the RL programs boys and girls was they wanted more, more time together, more time together training, more games, more competitions, and so that's what we've been able to create. We've been able to answer that by getting this new format where we're training twice a week, still training with the home clubs once a week, but training twice a week with the RL teams and, as directors, we're all having the conversations about you know, with each team individually what's the right additional events to add for them, make sure we get them in the right places, and so I think it's exciting. I think it's going to give them more opportunities to push each other and also to gel, and I look forward to what we can do, and ECNL wanted us to go in that direction.
Speaker 2:I mean again, we won all those state championships and won our league with one session a week, and so they know our best path forward if we continue to work together like we are, and now we're able to train a couple times a week. So imagine what we can do working more together.
Speaker 1:No, I mean. So another big change is we're in a uniform year for the RL teams, so we have these brand-new Capella uniforms that we'll in a uniform year for the RL teams, so we have these brand new Capella uniforms that we'll be getting next year, which I tell you what? What we did is we matched up with our local semi-pro team. So Pensacola 1559 is our semi-pro team. We have a men's team, a women's team and we have youth teams as well. If y'all don't have plans to go watch those teams play this summer, I highly recommend you go check it out. They'll be playing at the stadium at Ashton Brosnanham. There's going to be teams coming in from Naples, from Atlanta, from Louisiana, and it's going to be some great games.
Speaker 1:But we are matching up with our semi-pro team to match up uniforms. And if you haven't seen the FAQ, we have some images in there. But they are nice kits. They are nice. We've had our current kits for now. We're going through our second year, so it's time to kind of change that up. So, while that doesn't help us play any better on the field, it does look pretty sharp.
Speaker 2:It was sharp. I was able to get out to the men's game the other day and the Brosnahan facility where the SEC hosts was great the sound system, everything for the men's game. The women's team was there supporting. They had a little, you know, in the facilities the SEC hosts. They had a little brunch there before the game. So it's a family environment to go out and work. You know see 1559 play and it was a great crowd. Again, the uniforms did look sharp. They look sharp and their little merch desk was selling some good items.
Speaker 1:Well, and a huge shout out to Justin Witkin, who is you know, it was his vision, he put it together, he's been backing this thing for years now and we want to see the whole soccer community support that it's. You know, we have a lot of our local players are playing in the program as well as lot of our local players are playing in the program as well as some of the people that are coming in town living in Pensacola for the summer to play. So you definitely want to check that out. Another thing going into next year is just continuing to raise the standards for what we have in our coaching staffs. This past year for y'all that it's kind of a behind the scenes effort, but it's one of those things that when we did Coastal, we said you know, we want to make sure that the coaches are benefiting and y'all, this past season we've ran more coaching clinics through USSF than we ever have before. We ran two D licenses in Pensacola which certified over I think it's just over 30 new coaches in their D license. We were able to run two grassroots licenses. Every single coaching license we put out this year has sold out. We're already on schedule to probably end up doing at least two, maybe three, and we're really, really pushing to potentially host a C license in Pensacola. And so if again you're, if you're new to coaching or new to soccer, the licensing piece is a pathway that it's not going to end all be all define you of who is a coach, but it's continuing education, it's keeping you in touch with what's going on in the game.
Speaker 1:The Federation does a great job updating what they're teaching our new coaches to come in and especially on these grassroots coaches. We have some of our local rec coaches and academy coaches that are now surpassing their grassroots their D license and some of them even going to get their C. And that's what we need at the grassroots level to continue to allow our kids, cause I mean, that's our future. We're really good now, but if we stop the engine down there, it's not going to produce for years to come. So we were wondering how well they take and they all sold out. So huge kudos to everybody for taking advantage of that.
Speaker 1:For you, if you tried to normally get a D license or you don't have to travel, you're going to spend the night in Jackson Mississippi or going to Tallahassee or Jacksonville. So the fact that we had it in our backyard was a a huge win and hopefully that's something we continue for years and years to come, so kind of uh we. So. We have this FAQ here, guys, and I'm looking through it. What would you say as directors, is your biggest expectation next year for the RRL teams? What do you want to see happen?
Speaker 2:going forward. Who wants to go first? Well, again, just developing everybody, and and included in that, though, is to showcase, like you said, pushing the rl players. Our numbers for all our tryouts in the area are way up, and so just to be able to push all the players and and again, individually develop each player and by training a couple of times a week. And again, our coaches, like you just mentioned, are getting higher licenses every semester. We're working with that, and so we just want to develop the players. What ECNL does in the future with us, I'm not concerned as long as we're developing the players, and then the teams will develop after that. So, just this continued success, having home games, having us work as a community, everybody backing each other, and the whole panhandle area has been something that we haven't had ever, and so this has been an exciting time, and just want to continue that sense of community.
Speaker 3:Love it been an exciting time and just want to continue that.
Speaker 3:That sense of community love it.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I mean I look forward to as we improve our comprehensive plan of how we just create this comprehensive plan where, no matter where a player falls currently of their ability, they have a chance to develop. So if they're, you know, out of the gate quick and they're onto the rl teams, they get players and and coaches that challenge them in that environment. If they're playing in the showcase environment, they are playing with like players and like-minded players and they have a chance to grow in that environment. If they're back at the home club, they're getting new opportunities to develop because they're not being overshadowed by a kid that grew six inches faster than they did. And so, just having a comprehensive plan that, no matter where they fall currently, they can develop and try to maximize their potential, because it's impossible to say where the kids will end up If they get good training and they enjoy themselves. The top kids at 12 years old might not be the top kids at 18 years old. So we're just trying to make sure we're getting a developmental plan that touches everyone.
Speaker 1:And I'm going to get an actual stat, but I'm going to say it anyway how many players in y'all's career that you see at 11, 12, 13 are still the best players at 17, 18, 19?
Speaker 2:Well there's a lot of talk about there. But talking to man U coaches they said they got it so wrong. They did a survey and they all guessed who the best player when they were all 13, 12 and 13, who they they'd be. Those kids never made it through that u18. So even in the prim the best coaches couldn't identify what five, six, seven years of development would be, and that's why the comprehensive plan that develops all the players, um and the end up, the there's been.
Speaker 3:Uh, I think we're doing a good job with that. I think it just requires a little bit of trust from the families.
Speaker 2:And a lot of organization. I mean, there's countless hours spent on a master calendar and working together. None of which of those hours I'm working on all the time, so countless hours of others just putting together how we can can work together during the calendar year.
Speaker 1:So if you're a parent and you're brand new to Coastal, I want to tell you that the resources that we put out there on Coastal Rush dot com. Spend some time on that Web site. Make sure you read some of the content we put out. Spend some time on that website. Make sure you read some of the content we put out. Whether your kid is 9 or 19, it all applies. And then, once you find the right home club for you, that's the right environment. There's a whole other segment of how they're training and coaching. I mean this past year we've done, we keep continuing to improve. Bill's put out some of his curriculum all throughout the academy, throughout all of Coastal. When we come together for our academy play dates, we're utilizing some of that as well as the environment of just letting these kids play together and get more minutes on the field. So our hope is to continue to build the environment that allows all these kids that if they're going to choose soccer as their sport, it gives them not only that pathway from a young age to teenage, late teenage, potentially into college. But if you just want to come and be a great high school player, if you want to come in, you want a good training. You want good environments. You want to, you know, enjoy the sport for what it is. We want all that to be there. So it's.
Speaker 1:There's a lot of stuff going on behind the scenes and that's where I was hoping to get these guys in. They're both extremely busy with their schedules and being college coaches and directors themselves. We want to just basically say one thanks for a great season. We wanted to share the success with everybody. We hope that you've enjoyed it as much as we have and we'll say we know it's not perfect yet and we're learning something new every day and we hope that we continually have your trust and hoping that we can make this thing as best as it can. So, before we sign off, is there anything else you guys want to finish with?
Speaker 2:No, absolutely Again. Better together, there's no doubt about it. Good deal.
Speaker 1:Yeah, well, hey, thank you all for listening. We'll have some more coming out and if you ever have any ideas or any topics that you'd like to hear on this podcast, reach out to us. Let us know info at coastalrushcom and we'll look forward to seeing you on this pitch soon. Thank you,
