Virginia Rush Soccer Club

I can’t say enough about how great this program is! Our son has been with Rush for 3 years (5-8 years old) and majority of that has been spent in the developmental academy level learning and growing with incredible coaches like Isaac, Rasheed, Chris, and many others. The care, attention to detail, and fun atmosphere has really brought the best out of my son. We’re sad to PCS from this great community and club but are hopeful to come back and rejoin the club. Highly recommend this club; you will not be disappointed!

We've been a Rush family for many years, many seasons. Coaches are all volunteer parents and fairly reasonable. Not sure why any negative reviewers didn't step up and help instead of speaking poorly of an established affordable sports option or complaining about a hardworking parent who volunteered their time off to coach a team. We love Rush soccer. Rec soccer even comes with a shirt.

We have been with Rush for about 7 years. Both our kids have played in the areas of recreation, SOE, advanced and competitive. We are finally leaving because we just can’t take the horrible coaching and mismanagement anymore. Our child’s confidence has plummeted and it’s not hard to see why when a coach tells them they are “the least skilled player on the team” and “will never start” and “will never be in goal again the rest of the season.” When it’s clear that none of this is true and backed up, just the coach didn’t like them. There seems to be a huge emphasis on body image and only those who fit a certain mold get to be on better teams despite ability. Especially when a coach tells them they can see they haven’t been putting in an effort despite their hard work outside practices, just because their body is different. Size does not determine worth or ability. We have only had two good coaches for one of our kids and both those coaches left Rush, because they are good coaches and obviously care more about their players than the clubs bottom line. The Rush coaches need training in communication, management and people skills, especially cause they are dealing with children. Conflicts between coaches, parents, and administrators drive good people away from the club because they are not dealt with in an effective way or they are ignored. Rush is a joke. They want your money but will be quick to destroy your child’s confidence and love for the sport but not care because some other suckers are waiting in the wind and just want that competitive title. I’m just happy my child still wants to play despite the terrible years with Rush.

We have had a wonderful experience with Rush, it truly feels like family. We have had 2 daughters in their School of Excellence program and one of them is now in their travel program. The coaches truly work together to provide the best experience and they make both my girls feel special by knowing their names and engaging in conversation with them. I have seen incredible growth with their soccer IQ and skills and they feel like a valued member of the club.

We really never thought we’d be here with this organization, but despite the negativity we heard rumors of behind the scenes for four years we put our best foot forward because we saw the happiness and growth of our child. And we thought “well, we can do our best to keep a positive attitude through difficultly and we can deal with what comes at us because we believe in common decency amongst people, especially professional worldwide organizations”. Sadly despite it all we became another story to add to this clubs record. Bottom line up front: this organization down right swindled a season of player tuition and fees ($600+) from most of it’s players this year after no services were rendered due to the epidemic shutdown, and has thus far done it to us as a military family who had to relocate halfway around the world despite being told they would honor the standard military clause that most businesses extend, knowing you don’t get to choose when and where you live in the service. THE WORST PART is how they have gone about doing it. They have literally insulted us(and as we saw most of the families who support them) with a refusal to even communicate with us. Six months ago Matt Middlestadt, DIr of Coaching, told us he would be refunding us. Weeks and months went by and no refund and no communication about why. My husband tried calling and emailing and to this day Matt still has never once engaged him. My husband even cc’ed Rush head office distro and literally the only response I received was : “I will check on it. -Matt” We spent days and months devoted to this community. We played year round and even served as their teams accountants and secretary to make sure coaches and players were taken care of so we could build a quality program with them and yet we haven’t been good enough to even be spoken to, written to, repaid, or respected. Take your business else where because Rush doesn’t care, it’s simply a business no a professional program.