for developing players. <\/span><\/p>\nThe Rapids Way:<\/b> At the backbone of our efforts to be a transformational soccer club is \u201cthe Rapids Way\u201d. The Rapids Way encompasses who we are as a club, from how we handle our administrative details to how coaches instruct players in training to how our players and families conduct themselves on and off the field. The culture we create provides a system of support for all our young players, and we are incredibly proud of our community. <\/span><\/p>\nWe are honored that Rapids Youth Soccer parent Julie Lierman thought of us immediately upon reading this article and sent it to us with this thoughtful note: <\/span><\/p>\n\u201cI truly appreciate all the extras the Rapids club does for these kids with game tickets, bringing in Indie Cowie last year at the Community Cup, focusing on the development of each player individually and holding evaluations, your pep talks to them at practice and at games and not just about soccer, and so much more. I have yet to meet a club that has this much interaction with the kids outside of the normal trainings and games.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false,"gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"html"}]},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One of our Rapids Youth Soccer parents recently reached out with a great article discussing how important it is for soccer clubs to be transformational not just transactional. While we often stress the importance of our player development model, highlighting the growth and achievements of our teams, this metric of success is primarily transactional. This is why, over the past couple years, we have invested heavily in the culture, community, and experience our members have within Rapids Youth Soccer.<\/p>\n","protected":false,"gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"html"}]},"author":2,"featured_media":1647,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"acf":[],"gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"link","format":"url"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rapidsyouthsoccer.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1646"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rapidsyouthsoccer.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rapidsyouthsoccer.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rapidsyouthsoccer.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rapidsyouthsoccer.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1646"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rapidsyouthsoccer.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25050,"href":"https:\/\/rapidsyouthsoccer.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1646\/revisions\/25050"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rapidsyouthsoccer.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rapidsyouthsoccer.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rapidsyouthsoccer.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rapidsyouthsoccer.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}