Events

Youth Soccer Camp

Dates
Monday, June 15, 2015 thru Thursday, June 18, 2015

Description

The Camp Experience: St. Norbert Youth Soccer Camp offers individuals an opportunity to improve their soccer ability in a fun and challenging soccer environment. Skill development, technique and game play will be emphasized to enable each camper to reach his or her full potential as a soccer player. Instruction will focus on improving dribbling, passing, shooting and small sided games. Individual attention will give campers the opportunity to improve their own abilities in a competitive safe environment. Campers will have the opportunity to display newly learned techniques in large group games while working with current and former SNC players.  Sessions will be broken up through a three and a half day period and all sessions will be directed by Men’s Head Soccer Coach Derek Rhodes.  He brings professional and Division 1 playing experience as well as years of coaching at High School, Club, and College Levels.

Coach Rhodes has completed his third year as the Men's Head Coach at St. Norbert College. Just three years removed from a 2-14-1 season, the Green Knights advanced to the Conference Final in 2013 and in 2014 were nationally ranked (#22) finishing with a 11-4-3 record. Coach Rhodes was an assistant during the Green Knights most decorated stretch 2004-2007. During that time the Knights won three Conference Championships 2004, 2005, 2007. They also qualified for the NCAA tournament 2004, 2005, 2006 including one year to the round of sixteen.

In addition to his decorated coaching career Coach Rhodes was a four year starter at the University of Massachusetts. As captain at UMASS he was selected to the 2002 First Team All-Atlantic 10 team the 2002 All New England Team and the Athletic Directors Honor Roll. While leading his Minutemen team to two Atlantic 10 Regular Season Championships and one Atlantic 10 Tournament Championship.