#LowcountryRush

Tryouts

Lowcountry Rush Soccer Club provides a positive playing and learning environment that fosters long-term player development and personal growth. Our player-centered approach, backed with a national-level program and elite-level coaching provides our players with the highest quality soccer training and development in America. 

The process begins every May when we conduct our annual Tryouts and player placement process. During this process, we formulate teams in a manner that provides the most challenging and competitive soccer environment for each player. With the understanding that soccer is a long-term developmental sport, the club is careful to place each player on what we feel is the most appropriate team, the team upon which the player will grow, develop and enjoy their soccer experience the most.

It is the role of our Technical Director and the entire LRSC Coaching Staff to do what is in the best interest of each individual player. Winning is viewed as a positive byproduct of player development, not the goal itself. Player evaluations are a collaborative process among all our Coaching Staff and the placement of each player is taken very seriously.

LATE FEE

We encourage ALL players, whether you are new to the Club or returning, to register in a timely manner. This helps us organize each tryout session far better and makes your experience at Tryouts smoother and less stressful.

A late fee of $15 will apply if registering after May 1, 2026.

CRITERIA

When we look at the athletes, we measure their: 

• Technical Abilities

(e.g.  ball control, passing and receiving and defending skills)

• Tactical Awareness and Decision-Making skills

(e.g. vision, ability to read the game and movement off the ball)

• Physical Attributes

(e.g. speed, agility, strength, etc.)

• Psychological Profile

(e.g. work ethic, competitiveness, ability to learn from mistakes)

Lowcountry Rush players are evaluated twice a year by their Coach. Those evaluations are an important part of the tryout and player placement process for the following seasonal year.

FORMAT

The Tryout format is very simple. Our goal is to let the players play and showcase their talents.

Coaching will be held at a minimum and activities will be easy to understand. The evaluators will grade each player in the 4 listed criteria above and make specific comments on each player.

The Head Coach, in consultation with our Technical Director, the Evaluators and the player’s prior year Coach (if a returner) will select his/her team. 

Invitations

The Club will extend invitations to players as early as possible after Tryouts are concluded. We may invite returning players earlier than first-time players simply because the club is familiar with their level of play. This is particularly true in older age groups in which players have been with the Club for many years. Invitations should be extended 48 hours after the final tryout session. The goal is to establish our teams as early as possible so registration of all of our players can be accomplished and our teams go into the summer together to train and perhaps attend an early season tournament.