| Start Date: | 10/21/18 |
| End Date: | 10/21/18 |
| Registration Opens: | 08/09/18 |
| Registration Closes: | 10/22/18 |
| Camp Fee: | $100 |
RIT Girl’s Soccer Academy - Elite Player Clinic
Sunday, October 21st, 2018
Cost: $100.00 and includes all instruction, lunch, and a tee-shirt.
Please contact Coach Masterson if you registered 2+ children for a $25 sibling discount.
Description:
The RIT Women's Soccer Elite Player Clinic is designed for student-athletes who are interested in playing college soccer. The clinic will include high level training sessions conducted by the RIT Coaching Staff and players, and will be held outdoors on RIT’s turf field. Attendees can expect to feel the difference that separates the RIT Soccer experience!
Be sure to check out our RIT Women’s Soccer Information Day taking place on Saturday, October 20th. Register for the event separately.
Equipment: Please bring two sets of training gear, soccer cleats or turfs, shin guards, a towel, and rain gear.
Refund policy:
Full refunds will only be given if requested more than 14 days prior to the start of the event. Any cancellations due to injuries or illness within 14 days of the event will require a medical note for a partial refund. Please allow up to 4 weeks after the conclusion of event for processing.
Sunday, October 21st Schedule
8:30am……………..Check-In
8:40am……………..Session 1: Technical/Tactical Training, Game Play
10:30am……………Dorm Tour
11:00am……………Brunch at Gracie's
12:30pm……………Session II: Possession & Combo Play & Scrimmage
2:30pm……………Closing Remarks
Directions: Directions to RIT can be found on the RIT website at: http://www.rit.edu/maps/
Coaching Staff
Liz Masterson
In her first eight seasons on the bench at RIT, Liz Masterson has built RIT women’s soccer into one of the top programs in the Northeast region. She guided the Tigers to their first two NCAA Tournament appearances in 2012 and 2013. Last season, Masterson guided the Tigers to 12 wins in 2017 including four in the highly competitive Liberty League. The Tigers finished the 2017 season ranked third in the East Region, the highest final ranking ever for the program.
Masterson, the 2012 Liberty League Coach of the Year, has a 78-447-21 (.606) overall record. The 78 wins are second all-time in program history. She has led the Tigers to seven postseason berths, qualifying for the Empire 8 Tournament in 2010, and the Liberty League Tournament from 2011-15 and 2017.
Masterson led RIT to its first Liberty League Championship game in 2013, before falling to the eventual NCAA National Champion, William Smith. RIT went 12-5-4 in 2013, setting a program record with 12 shut-outs, while allowing just 14 goals. In 2015, Masterson helped guide the Tigers to a 12-4-2 record and their first NSCAA Division III National ranking in program history.
Under Masterson’s tutelage, 35 players have earned All-Conference honors, including seven in 2017. Riley Yankowich was named Liberty League Defensive Player of the Year in 2017, earning first team honors along with classmate Kelly Rogers. Jessica Jones and Lauren Chester were second team picks, while Emily Thiel, Courtney Hunt and Elena Wolfe were honorable mention selections.
Each of the last eight seasons, RIT has been awarded with the Team Academic Award by the National Soccer Coaches Association of America (NSCAA), for maintaining a team grade point average of 3.0 or better. Last season, 13 Tigers were selected to the Liberty League All-Academic Team for maintaining at least a 3.3 grade point average. Last season, Yankowich was named CoSIDA Academic All-District honors.
In 2015, Elizabeth May was a CoSIDA Third Team Academic All-American selection, while Amanda Murray was a third team selection in 2014, and Jamie Martinez was a second team Academic All-American selection in 2013, while also earning NSCAA second team All-American honors. Emily Shoemaker earned 2015 NSCAA All-Academic honors and was named the 2016 RIT Senior Female Athlete of the Year.
Masterson also serves as an advisor to the RIT Student Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC), which has hosted numerous events on campus and off that helps promote RIT Athletics as well as allow the student-athletes to give back to the Rochester community.
Masterson came to RIT after serving two seasons as the head women’s soccer coach at Elmira College.While at Elmira, she helped Elmira earn the NSCAA All-Academic Team awards in 2008 and 2009. Four Soaring Eagles earned All-Empire 8 honors in Masterson’s two seasons.
Masterson is a 2005 graduate of St. Lawrence University, where she received a bachelor’s degree in government. She was a four-year starter of the varsity soccer team, serving as captain in 2004. Masterson earned NSCAA first team All-American honors in 2003. She was a three-time All-Region performer (2001, 2003 and 2004); and a four-time first team All-Liberty League performer from 2001-04. She scored 20 goals and added 15 assists for 55 points at St. Lawrence.
After graduation, Masterson went on to Manhattanville College where she earned a master’s degree in sport business management in 2008, while serving as the assistant coach for the women’s soccer team for two seasons.
In June 2011, Masterson graduated the NCAA Women Coaches Academy. She has her advanced diploma from the National Soccer Coaches Association of America (NSCAA) and has her U.S. Soccer Federation “B” License.
Masterson played one year with the Massachusetts Stingers of the WPSL and three seasons with the Rochester Rhinos of the W-League from 2006-2008. She was a three-year captain and started every game for Rochester. Masterson is the Rhinos’ all-time leader in games played.
A native of Steamboat Springs, Colo., Masterson now resides in Rochester with her husband, Evan Schutt, their daughter Harper, and son Kailan.
Molly Romano
Molly Romano is going into her second season as an assistant coach for the RIT women’s soccer team in 2018. She brings over 10 years of coaching experience to the RIT staff.
Along with her coaching duties at RIT, Romano also is the head coach of the Empire United Girls U14 team. Romano was an assistant coach for the Pittsford Sutherland Girls Soccer Team from 2013-2016, and was the head coach at Beaver Country Day School from 2010-2013.
She was the assistant women’s soccer coach at Bentley University in 2009, and served as the assistant coach at Lasell College in 2008.
Romano played at John Carroll University from 2001-2004, earning All-Ohio Athletic Conference and All-Academic honors in 2003 and 2004. She was the team’s Offensive MVP in 2003 and 2004, while helping John Carroll to a NCAA Tournament berth in 2001. She graduated from John Carroll in 2005 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Middle Childhood Education.
Rene Tadal
Rene Romano is going into his second season as an assistant coach for the RIT women’s soccer team in 2018. He brings 28 years of college and club coaching experience to the Tigers staff.
Along with his coaching duties at RIT, Tadal also currently serves as the Girls U16/17 Blue Team Empire USA head coach. Among other stops in his coaching journey, Tadal served as an assistant coach at St. John Fisher from 2006-2009.
While a club coach, Tadal led his teams to four New York State West Championship and four appearances at the Snickers Regional. In 2008-09 he led the Rochester Jr. Rhinos GU17 Yellow Team and EUSA GU18 team to the NSW Finals.
Tadal graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree from SUNY Farmingdale and currently resides in Penfield, NY.
