UPDATE 9/12/2022
Our travel teams are full for the Fall Season, but we will have a supplemental tryout for Spring 2023, most likely in January. Stay tuned here and on Facebook at WUSCSoccer for more information when we have it. Thanks!
Tryouts for the 2022-2023 Revolution competitive soccer teams are coming up soon! The teams with available spots are:
Boys Teams (Girls welcome to tryout)
U16 Revolution (2007 birthdates or later)
U14 Revolution (2009 birthdates or later)
U12 Revolution (2011 birthdates or later)
Girls Teams
U13 Girls Revolution (2010 birthdates or later)
U11 Girls Revolution (2012 birthdates or later)
Tryout Dates are as follows:
U16 Boys- Tuesday, May 24th, registration starts at 5:30pm. Tryouts from 6pm-7:30pm. Please email [email protected] if you want to attend, include your athletes name, birth year, and shirt size please! Tryouts will be held at Mountain Island Charter School, which is located at 13440 Lucia Riverbend Highway, Mt. Holly, NC 28120. Field 2 is the check-in location, that is the field with the track around it directly in front of the school.
U14 Boys- 2 Tryout Options, Tuesday, May 24th, and Wednesday May 25th. Registration starts at 5:30pm. Tryouts from 6pm-7:30pm. Please email [email protected] if you want to attend, include your athletes name, birth year, and shirt size please! Tryouts will be held at Mountain Island Charter School, which is located at 13440 Lucia Riverbend Highway, Mt. Holly, NC 28120. Field 2 is the check-in location, that is the field with the track around it directly in front of the school.
U12Boys- 2 Tryout options- Monday, May 9th, registration starts at 5:30pm. Tryouts from 6pm-7:30pm. Please email [email protected] if you want to attend, include your athletes name, birth year, and shirt size please! Tryouts will be held at Mountain Island Charter School, which is located at 13440 Lucia Riverbend Highway, Mt. Holly, NC 28120. Field 2 is the check-in location, that is the field with the track around it directly in front of the school.
Also, Saturday, May 14th registration starts at 11am, tryouts from 11:30am until 1pm. This tryout will be held at Shuffletown Park which is located at 9530 Bellhaven Blvd, Charlotte NC 28216.
U13 Girls- Monday, May 23rd, registration starts at 5:30pm. Tryouts from 6pm-7:30pm. Please email [email protected] if you want to attend, include your athletes name, birth year, and shirt size please! Tryouts will be held at Mountain Island Charter School, which is located at 13440 Lucia Riverbend Highway, Mt. Holly, NC 28120. Field 2 is the check-in location, that is the field with the track around it directly in front of the school.
U11 Girls- 3 Tryout Options- Monday, May 9th, and Tuesday, May 10th registration starts at 5:30pm each day. Tryouts from 6pm-7:30pm. Please email [email protected] if you want to attend, include your athletes name, birth year, and shirt size please! Tryouts will be held at Mountain Island Charter School, which is located at 13440 Lucia Riverbend Highway, Mt. Holly, NC 28120. Field 2 is the check-in location, that is the field with the track around it directly in front of the school.
Also, Saturday, May 14th registration starts at 11am, tryouts from 11:30am until 1pm. This tryout will be held at Shuffletown Park which is located at 9530 Bellhaven Blvd, Charlotte NC 28216.
Please e-mail us at [email protected] if you intend to tryout, please include your athletes name, birth year, team you intend to tryout for and also shirt size please!
Please read through all of the information in our Classic Soccer tab here on the website and contact us with any questions at [email protected]Our U16 Western United Soccer Club Revolution (2007 Birthdates or later) will be coached by Robert Price and Ben McDermott. Coaches Price and McDermott are returning for their 6th year leading the Revolution. U16 means continued full field 11 v 11 competition and minutes of match time. We look forward to great things from this team again this fall. They are fun to watch!
Coach Robert Price- Coach Price
began his coaching career 16 years ago at Providence Day coaching Basketball and is currently in his fifth season as the Head Varsity Basketball Coach for Mountain Island Charter School, which has been a consistent highly ranked team that has made deep playoff runs. Coach Prices teams have produced multiple players that have gone to play college ball. Price began coaching soccer with Western United Soccer Club in 2011 when his son Manny turned 3 and was old enough to play. He took over the U-4 program, adding song and structure, and has matriculated with Manny each year while also coaching daughter Maya. Six years ago along with Coach Ben McDermott, they created the Revolution; a challenge soccer team offering greater competition, with more practice time and a focus on the fall season, allowing young athletes to play other seasonal sports. The five years as Coach of the Revolution has been especially gratifying as the Revolution have finished top 2 in their division and have made ourselves well known to other teams in tournaments. In addition, the Revolution has become a Family. Coach Price also finds times to coach with Mountain Island Lacrosse, Mountain Island Optimist Club lower school Basketball and Coul-oak Softball. Price has been married for 20+ years to a wonderful and supportive wife Cara and has two young athletes of his own, Manny and Maya.
Coach Ben McDermott- Coach McDermott was born and raised in Charlotte, NC, and played his youth soccer with Western United years ago. He loves this organization and thrilled his children are able to play in the same great organization he enjoyed as a kid. He has been coaching with Western United since 2012 when his oldest son, Ben Jr. began his soccer career. Coach McDermott has two other WUSC athletes, Max and Jake, and continues to help coach their teams at the younger age levels. He also coaches baseball for Coul-Oak Little League in the Spring and loves to support and volunteer for our local sports organizations.
Our U14 Western United Soccer Club Revolution (2009 Birthdates or later) will be coached by Donny Rollins, Ian Byrne and Nick Redford. Coach Rollins is not only the Director of Coaching for Western United Soccer Club, but is returning for the fifth season with our U14 Revolution. The U14 Revolution will look to build upon their last four seasons. This team started off four years ago as a U11 team with mostly 8 and 9 year olds and held their own in the first season. With a few new faces the last three seasons, they have been extremely competitive in a division that includes some solid teams. They also recorded a tournament championship in the 2020 Dick's Sporting Goods tourney here in Charlotte, repeated that win in the 2021 Dick's Sporting Goods Invitational, won the 2021 Independence Classic and also won their League Title in the Fall of 2021, going undefeated and only giving up two goals all season!
Coach Donny Rollins- Coach Rollins is quite simply a soccer fanatic. He has been involved in playing and coaching soccer his entire life. Coach Rollins is our Director of Coaching for Western United Soccer Club and coached rec soccer in our U4, U6, and U8 divisions between 2014-2017. Since then, he has led our U14 WUSC Revolution team and returns for his fifth season with the Revolution. Coach Rollins has had an extensive playing and coaching career. Coach Rollins grew up in Florida where he played for Cape Coral High School before moving on to play in college at the College of Boca Raton. While there from 1985-1988, Coach Rollins was part of the NAIA National Championship team in 1987 and a member of the State Cup Champions in 1988. After college, Coach Rollins spent three years continuing to play soccer, one with the Fort Lauderdale Strikers practice squad and then playing semi-pro soccer in Vero Beach. He continued to work in the soccer industry at Soccer Madness stores in South Florida and at one time even owned his own soccer specific t-shirt line called Ridi Rojo. He also coached a U11 Select Team in Boca Raton, the Saint Andrews middle school team and the Spanish River High School JV team in the early nineties. His love for soccer continued and he was led back into coaching with us as his son became involved in soccer.
Coach Ian Byrne- Coach Byrne began playing soccer at age 5, and continued actively playing through his freshman season of club soccer at Wake Forest University, when a knee injury ended his competition days. He has been coaching with WUSC since 2013, when his oldest son, Sean, began with the organization. He first coached one team per season, and then moved to two teams when his younger son, Jackson, also began playing. Coach Byrne and Sean were both eager to jump on board when WUSC formed the younger U11 Revolution in its inaugural season, and are excited for another fun-filled year. Coach Byrne enjoys supporting all local youth athletics, also coaching and serving on the Board of CoulOak Little League, as well as helping coach MIOC basketball.
Our U12 BOYS Western United Soccer Club Revolution team (2011 birthdates or later) will be coached by Ben McDermott and Kevin Garrison. Coach McDermott is the assistant coach for our U15 Revolution team. Coach Garrison has been coaching for WUSC in our rec leagues for 5 years and looks forward to joining the Revolution! This is a brand new team this season and we look forward to this team continuing the tradition and quality soccer of our older teams!
Coach Ben McDermott- Coach McDermott was born and raised in Charlotte, NC, and played his youth soccer with Western United years ago. He loves this organization and thrilled his children are able to play in the same great organization he enjoyed as a kid. He has been coaching with Western United since 2012 when his oldest son, Ben Jr. began his soccer career. Coach McDermott has two other WUSC athletes, Max and Jake, and continues to help coach their teams at the younger age levels. He also coaches baseball for Coul-Oak Little League in the Spring and loves to support and volunteer for our local sports organizations.
Coach Kevin Garrison- info coming soon!
Our U13 Girls Western United Soccer Club Revolution (2010 birthdates or later) will be coached by Coach Rob Price. You can see his info under the U16 Boys Team.
Our U11 Western United Soccer Club Girls Revolution (2012 birthdates or later) will be coached by Geoff Spencer and Steve Davidson. This is a brand new team heading into it's first season. Coach Spencer and Coach Davidson are excited about putting together a new team and helping them learn, progress and gel together as a team.
Coach Geoff Spencer- Coach Spencer has been the President of Western United Soccer Club since November of 2015 and has overseen the expansion of our Rec League and our Revolution Classic Soccer Program. Coach Spencer holds a US Soccer license for U12 and under and is working on completing courses to earn a US Soccer "D" License. In addition to serving as President of WUSC, Coach Spencer is also the Director of Classic soccer for WUSC. Coach Spencer has coached at various age levels with WUSC since the 2014 season. Coach Spencer is an avid sports fan, that grew up playing soccer, basketball, baseball and golf. Coach Spencer played Varsity basketball and golf through High School. He has enjoyed coaching multiple sports for his kids, including baseball for Coul-Oak and basketball for Upward Basketball in the past, but his three kids all have developed a love for the beautiful game of football (soccer here in the US) and the family spends a lot of time on the pitch and watching football on TV. His oldest, Jordan, is a member of the U16 Revolution and enjoys playing with the club. His younger kids, Jillian and Jonathan have been playing for WUSC since they were 3 and 2 respectively and have played for their dad multiple seasons. Coach Spencer is looking forward to seeing this brand new team come together and achieve great things!
Coach Steve DavidsonCoach Steve Davidson- Info Coming Soon!