{"id":20519,"date":"2022-02-18T13:45:38","date_gmt":"2022-02-18T21:45:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/traceup.com\/?p=20519"},"modified":"2022-06-16T18:02:48","modified_gmt":"2022-06-17T01:02:48","slug":"cda-slammers-fc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traceup.com\/cda-slammers-fc","title":{"rendered":"CDA Slammers FC"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"parent-and-coach-eric-dykes-shares-how-trace-helps-pave-the-way-to-college-soccer\">Parent and Coach Eric Dykes Shares How Trace Helps Pave the Way to College Soccer<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-1 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:20%\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:60%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/traceup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/slammers-fc-x-trace-soccer-camera-.jpg?resize=491%2C327&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-20532\" width=\"491\" height=\"327\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/traceup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/slammers-fc-x-trace-soccer-camera-.jpg?w=500&amp;ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/traceup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/slammers-fc-x-trace-soccer-camera-.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 491px) 100vw, 491px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:20%\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Over the course of nearly thirty years, three Nike World Championships, and seventeen National Championships, <a href=\"https:\/\/cdaslammers.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">CDA Slammers FC<\/a> has grown to be one of the most successful and prestigious soccer clubs in the United States.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But the Southern California-based Slammers FC aren\u2019t all about winning. Their success is a product of a <a href=\"https:\/\/cdaslammers.com\/the-cda-way\/coaching-philosophy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">deep-rooted commitment<\/a> to personal growth and nurturing great players and great people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That commitment to player development led the club to become one of Trace\u2019s earliest adopters in 2018. Since then, <a href=\"https:\/\/traceup.com\/longtime-trace-partners-lafc-slammers-win-4th-ecnl-overall-club-championship\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">back-to-back ECNL Overall Club National Champion titles<\/a> have cemented their standing as a truly elite soccer club. Slammers Director of Coaching Walid Khoury says, \u201cWe recognized the value of Trace early on. Filming every game and getting personalized content to our players quickly has accelerated our players\u2019 development exponentially. It\u2019s why every single one of our teams is currently using Trace.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-2 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:20%\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:60%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Trace + CDA Slammers FC\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/79QdJnYvc84?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:20%\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>As both a coach and a parent for Slammers FC, Eric Dykes has witnessed Trace\u2019s impact firsthand and shared his insights into how Trace helped pave the way for his players to elevate their game, and, in the case of his own son, to land a spot on a college soccer team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"using-trace-as-a-developmental-tool\">Using Trace as a Developmental Tool<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Eric\u2019s teams started using Trace two years ago and immediately realized the power of the platform\u2019s convenient and engaging video. It couldn\u2019t have arrived at a better time: after building a strong, dynamic team with terrific talent, a flurry of last-minute roster changes meant he had to rebuild his team. He used Trace to get his team up to speed. Here\u2019s how:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Trace makes accessing game film easy and effortless. <\/strong>\u201cWe would watch game film every single Wednesday evening. I\u2019m a high school teacher \u2014&nbsp;I brought the kids into my classroom, pop the Trace up on a big screen, and we\u2019d watch to assess what we did well, and what we needed to get better. Sometimes we\u2019d watch the full game. Sometimes it was a dynamic half, or runs of play, or touch chains. And we got better and better throughout the season. I attribute a big chunk of that to watching game film.\u201d<\/li><li><strong>Trace helps coaches provide specific, actionable feedback in a visual way. <\/strong>\u201cTrace gives you the chance to show coaching comments in action. We\u2019re an amazing possession team, but sometimes we just possess to possess. We needed to talk to our holding midfielders about how we needed them to turn and force defenders to make a choice. Having conversations like that, you need to go and watch the film so that players can see all the space they have.\u201d<\/li><li><strong>Trace empowers coaches to demonstrate team tactics. <\/strong>\u201cWe were running a funky system up top, where we had players constantly switching positions.<strong> <\/strong>That\u2019s hard to teach, and it\u2019s hard to learn. Our Trace clips were huge in giving kids a way to see how we were maintaining structure when changing positions, and when we lost that structure.\u201d<\/li><li><strong>Trace helps players understand their own game. <\/strong>\u201cFrom my own son\u2019s perspective, his biggest strength is his movement off the ball. Creating space for himself and others. And that comes from watching film. He has watched a <em>lot <\/em>of film of himself to build that great understanding of the game.\u201d<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"using-trace-as-a-recruiting-tool\">Using Trace as a Recruiting Tool<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-3 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:20%\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:60%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/traceup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/slammers-fc-x-trace-soccer-1.jpg?resize=493%2C328&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-20536\" width=\"493\" height=\"328\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/traceup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/slammers-fc-x-trace-soccer-1.jpg?w=500&amp;ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/traceup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/slammers-fc-x-trace-soccer-1.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 493px) 100vw, 493px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:20%\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-4 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:10%\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:80%\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>\u201cTrace is a no-brainer. It makes your clips <em>for you. <\/em>That\u2019s really what it\u2019s all about: you can still watch the whole game if you want to do film review, but the truth is your job is to get clips of your kid. That\u2019s especially true if their goal is to play at the next level.\u201d <\/p><cite>Slammers Coach and Parent, Eric Dykes<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:10%\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Eric\u2019s son recently landed a scholarship to play high-level college soccer, as did an impressive majority of his teammates. They are joining the ranks of the 671 (and counting!) Slammers alumni who have gone on to play for colleges and universities across the country. .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Going through the college recruiting process in the middle of a global pandemic could have been a huge headache. But thanks to an abundance of video from Trace, Eric and his son were able to navigate those muddy waters with comfort and ease. Here\u2019s why:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Trace makes sharing film with college coaches easy. <\/strong>\u201cThe hardest part is always getting the highlight film. Thanks to Trace, we already had a lot of quality film, so we were able to easily compile a highlight video and send that out to tons of colleges. And he got offers. So did the rest \u2014&nbsp;with our ECNL group, every single kid that had film and actively made an attempt to contact coaches is playing college soccer. Every single kid. There\u2019s no way we do that without Trace.\u201d<\/li><li><strong>Trace lets <em>you <\/em>showcase <em>you. <\/em><\/strong>\u201cWe had players that used those companies that charge a million bucks to \u201cmarket your kid.\u201d Not one of those kids got an offer through that. That\u2019s because they don\u2019t know who you are, they don\u2019t know how you play. With Trace, you have total control. Kids were able to go in very easily and compile clips of the things that we <em>knew <\/em>coaches wanted to see.\u201d<\/li><li><strong>Trace gives athletes the tools to navigate the recruitment process on their own.<\/strong> \u201cOur big push as a club is that we want you playing at the next level. That means grinding and marketing yourself, while getting better as a player. And a huge part of that is using film: watching film, creating that highlight reel, doing all those little things that Trace always encourages you to do. Really putting the work in \u2014&nbsp;that\u2019s individual responsibility. College coaches love that, because they see that they\u2019re owning this process themselves, putting in their own time, their own effort, not just on the soccer field, but off it too.\u201d<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coach and parent Eric Dykes shares how Trace helped his players elevate their game and achieve their college soccer dreams.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":155722391,"featured_media":23639,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[703414499],"tags":[703414608,703414607,703414609],"table_tags":[],"class_list":["post-20519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-case-study","tag-case-study","tag-team-case-study","tag-testimonial"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/traceup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/slammers-fc.png?fit=800%2C500&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traceup.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traceup.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traceup.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traceup.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/155722391"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traceup.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20519"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/traceup.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20728,"href":"https:\/\/traceup.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20519\/revisions\/20728"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traceup.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traceup.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traceup.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traceup.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20519"},{"taxonomy":"table_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traceup.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/table_tags?post=20519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}