 This article was originally published by PrepSoccer staff writer, Matt Smith, on the PrepSoccer website. Matt Smith is a special news and communications correspondent with SF Elite Academy and will providing viewers with an inside look into SF Elite and what makes our club so special.
A soccer club is measured by a lot of things, and among the most important when it comes to attracting talent is proving you have the ability to send players to play in college. San Francisco Elite has committed itself to that mission, doing so while maintaining its core values of developing the athletes as young adults as well. SF Elite created its College Pathway program, a program that is guided by higher ups within the club who have a wealth of coaching experience, and is being used as a spring board to help players who want to play in college.“We have the know how, contacts and experience to help them play at the next level,” SF Elite Executive Director Joe Dugan said. “We’ve done it, we know the recruiting experience and we have unprecedented contacts in the college game.”  This article was written by PrepSoccer staff writer, Matt Smith. Matt Smith is a special news and communications correspondent with SF Elite Academy and will providing viewers with an inside look into SF Elite and what makes our club so special.
If you look at the San Francisco Elite contacts page, and you see Chance Daniel's title as Chief Diversity Officer and wonder what that is, think about it like this... the goal of the position is to help bridge gaps. To overcome barriers to entry. To help create a comfortable and welcoming environment for everyone regardless of social or economic status, regardless of race, ethnicity, religion or gender. It's about inclusion. It's about giving people the ability to ask questions, to make mistakes and to do so in the pursuit of being better. Boiling it down even further, it's about helping people understand people who are different from yourself.  This article was written by PrepSoccer staff writer, Matt Smith. Matt Smith is a special news and communications correspondent with SF Elite Academy and will providing viewers with an inside look into SF Elite and what makes our club so special.
When you join San Francisco Elite, you are joining a club with integrity and values. However, you are also joining a club that can help you reach our goals, even if those targets are years away. For a player like Miles Lin, who plays for the 2010 team, he is already dreaming big as he looks to start playing soccer in high school when he begins as a freshman, and parlay that into playing in college.  This article was written by PrepSoccer staff writer, Matt Smith. Matt Smith is a special news and communications correspondent with SF Elite Academy and will providing viewers with an inside look into SF Elite and what makes our club so special.
A lot of positive adjectives should come to mind when describing the game of Reese Bassuk. Jeff Wilson, the coach of the 2006 Girls Blue GAL team that Bassuk plays for at San Francisco Elite, says that she is a natural leader, who reads the game well. "When she gets into dangerous positions she is excellent at executing," Wilson said. "Although I have only worked with her for a short time I can see her potential to not only excel at our level but beyond at the collegiate level." And if you talk to Bassuk, the word that comes to mind is versatile. She is a player that can play all over the pitch and she's not afraid to work hard to become good at playing any position.  This article was originally published by PrepSoccer staff writer, Matt Smith, on the PrepSoccer website. Matt Smith is a special news and communications correspondent with SF Elite Academy and will providing viewers with an inside look into SF Elite and what makes our club so special.
The third part in our San Francisco City Series focuses on midfielders as we move from between the posts and the back line and into the middle of the pitch. This group of players stands out for their technical ability, their ability to connect the defense with the attacking players and they all seem to be players who are efficient in all aspects of playing in the middle of the park. Isabelle Bernal | International | Junior | Midfielder Bernal is a player who can play all through the midfield, and has spent a good amount of her time with her club, SF Elite 06 GA, playing the No. 6 and the No. 10. She moves the ball well, and plays a great diagonal ball from the defensive mid spot. She has a tremendous passing range that might have played a huge role in her being the co-MVP of the Bay Counties League Central during her high school season. |
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