Improve your skills throughout the week
This camp brings together coaches who have worked with soccer players for decades. Our coaches have coached boys and girls youth soccer, club soccer, travel soccer and high school soccer.
Every player will be placed in a skill/age appropriate group and will receive direct instruction/coaching from each coach throughout the week.
Every player will be placed in a skill/age appropriate group and will receive direct instruction/coaching from each coach throughout the week.
Coaches Resume
Our Current Coaches collectively have:
-Coached with various clubs, ODP, community college and D1 level
-Over 50 years of HS soccer coaching experience
-Over 615 wins coaching high school soccer
-8 Coach of the year awards
-14 County Championships
-13 Regional Championships
-3 State Championships
-Coached 8 County player of the year winners
-Coached 69 All State players
-Coached 6 All Americans
-Coached players who have gone on to play at: The professional level, University of Maryland, Duke, NC State, Delaware, University of Rochester, University of Pennsylvania, Towson, Vanderbilt, UMBC, Sheppard College, The Naval Academy, Lynchburg College, University of Mary Washington, Utah Valley University, Radford University, Coastal Carolina, George Mason, VMI and many more.
*List is not complete as more coaching accomplishments is updated as our staff grows.
Current Coaching Staff (more to be added):
Camp Director - Phil Ranker. Phil began coaching soccer in his hometown of Reisterstown shortly after he graduated from The University of Maryland with a degree in Kinesiology. He is currently a Physical Education teacher and previously coached the Reservoir Girls Varsity soccer team for 8 seasons. He won Coach of the Year in 2021 and was elected to serve on the Maryland Association of Coaches of Soccer executive board during his time at Reservoir.
Coach Matt Shagogue - Matt is a current teacher and coach of the Boys Varsity soccer team at River Hill for the past 17 seasons. He has consistently led River Hill as one of the prominent teams in the county and state. He has over 200 wins and counting at RH. Matt was elected to serve on the Maryland Association of Coaches of Soccer executive board for two terms throughout his time at River Hill. He has won multiple Coach of the Year honors throughout his career and amassed many county, regional and state titles while leading the Hawks.
Coach Mike Linsenmeyer - Mike is a current teacher and coach of the Boys Varsity soccer team at Mt. Hebron for the past 23 seasons. Through Mike's leadership and knowledge, Mt. Hebron has consistently performed as one of the top teams in the county, region and state. He has the most victories in Mt. Hebron history for both Boys Soccer and Boys Basketball. He has won many county, regional and state titles at MH and has over 250 wins and counting.
Coach Darius Qualls - Darius has been coaching soccer for 3 decades. He has coached with PG Community College, Towson University, Bishop McKnamara HS, Riverdale Baptist HS and most recently Marriotts Ridge HS. He led the girls team from 2018-2021 winning double digit games every season. From 2019-2021 (3 seasons), the team had a total of 3 loses. He won multiple county titles and consistently had MR as the top team or 2nd team in the county. He currently coaches multiple club soccer teams in Howard County and recently took over as the head coach of Reservoir Girls Varsity Soccer.
Camp Director - Phil Ranker. Phil began coaching soccer in his hometown of Reisterstown shortly after he graduated from The University of Maryland with a degree in Kinesiology. He is currently a Physical Education teacher and previously coached the Reservoir Girls Varsity soccer team for 8 seasons. He won Coach of the Year in 2021 and was elected to serve on the Maryland Association of Coaches of Soccer executive board during his time at Reservoir.
Coach Matt Shagogue - Matt is a current teacher and coach of the Boys Varsity soccer team at River Hill for the past 17 seasons. He has consistently led River Hill as one of the prominent teams in the county and state. He has over 200 wins and counting at RH. Matt was elected to serve on the Maryland Association of Coaches of Soccer executive board for two terms throughout his time at River Hill. He has won multiple Coach of the Year honors throughout his career and amassed many county, regional and state titles while leading the Hawks.
Coach Mike Linsenmeyer - Mike is a current teacher and coach of the Boys Varsity soccer team at Mt. Hebron for the past 23 seasons. Through Mike's leadership and knowledge, Mt. Hebron has consistently performed as one of the top teams in the county, region and state. He has the most victories in Mt. Hebron history for both Boys Soccer and Boys Basketball. He has won many county, regional and state titles at MH and has over 250 wins and counting.
Coach Darius Qualls - Darius has been coaching soccer for 3 decades. He has coached with PG Community College, Towson University, Bishop McKnamara HS, Riverdale Baptist HS and most recently Marriotts Ridge HS. He led the girls team from 2018-2021 winning double digit games every season. From 2019-2021 (3 seasons), the team had a total of 3 loses. He won multiple county titles and consistently had MR as the top team or 2nd team in the county. He currently coaches multiple club soccer teams in Howard County and recently took over as the head coach of Reservoir Girls Varsity Soccer.