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Teams Prepare to decend on Rock Hill for the US Youth Soccer National Tournament

Date Posted: 7/19/2012

The best teams from around the country prepare to decend on Rock Hill for the US Youth Soccer National Tournament July 24-29.  Hundreds of volunteers are also preparing to host the teams and make the tournament a sucess. The US Youth Soccer National Championship Series is the country's most prestigious national youth soccer tournament, providing approximately 185,000 players on over 10,000 teams from US Youth Soccer State Associations the opportunity to showcase their soccer skills against the best competition in the nation while emphasizing teamwork, discipline and fair play.

How they got here:

10,000 teams at the state level, 926 teams at Regionals, 60 teams advance to the National Championships!!

Get to know the teams competing for a National Championship in Rock Hill, S.C.

• Under-14 Girls - Elmer Ehlers Cup
•Under-15 Girls - US Youth Soccer Cup
•Under-16 Girls - Mavis Derflinger Cup
•Under-17 Girls - US Youth Soccer Cup
•Under-18 Girls - Frank Kelly Cup
•Under-19 Girls - Ross Stewart Cup
•Under-14 Boys - William J. "Billy" Goaziou Cup
•Under-15 Boys - US Youth Soccer Cup
•Under-16 Boys - Larry Harmon Cup
•Under-17 Boys - Don Greer Cup
•Under-18 Boys - US Youth Soccer Cup
•Under-19 Boys - James P. McGuire Cup

Follow all the action-  click here for schedules/scores, and team information.

The US Youth Soccer National Championship Series is the country's most prestigious national youth soccer tournament, providing approximately 185,000 players on over 10,000 teams from US Youth Soccer State Associations the opportunity to showcase their soccer skills against the best competition in the nation while emphasizing teamwork, discipline and fair play.

The US Youth Soccer National Championships cap a yearlong series of competitions for boys and girls teams in multiple age brackets as teams earn their way from the top teams in their state to the regional championship tournaments. US Youth Soccer State Champions and selected wildcard teams through US Youth Soccer Regional Leagues in most age groups are eligible to compete in one of four US Youth Soccer Regional Championships. The champions in the Under-14 through Under-19 age brackets from each regional event will converge in July for the US Youth Soccer National Championships.

Annually the US Youth Soccer National Championship Series provides the nation's top collegiate coaches with the premier stage to identify and scout the most coveted players in the country. In 2010, over 600 coaches attended the US Youth Soccer Regional Championships including the majority of the top 25 men's and women's programs based on the final 2010 NSCAA/adidas National Rankings for NCAA Division I schools.