The mission of the Missoula Surf Soccer Club is to follow in the footsteps Surf and its mission: It’s our mission to create the ‘Best of the Best’ experiences and opportunities for youth soccer players through our clubs, events and facilities.

“Surround yourself with good people. Surround yourself with positivity and people who are going to challenge you to make you better. If you just kind of let yourself stay alone and be by yourself, the negative, it is just not going to help you. You can control two things, your work ethic and your attitude about anything.” Ali Krieger

At Missoula Surf we are committed to player development in all of its forms and pathways. We encourage players to act on things within their “Control” and to be flexible in dealing with the things that are”Uncontrollable”. We have a partnership with Steven Asher, mental performance coach, who is helping us to teach players to properly identify their controllables and to focus on these things to help them perform in stressful situations.

While we cannot control our opponents actions, we can choose the level of difficulty that they possess and provide by attending events that have a higher level of competitive teams playing in them. We believe that playing unfamiliar and highly competitive teams allows us to break through the ceiling of development in Montana, challenge our atheletes and increase our players abilities and long term development. This dedication to development requires us to prioritize entering the most challenging brackets and competitions, which in the short term can dramatically lower our likelihood of winning these competitions. Our focus is to develop and compete, this is a gradual process of exposure to high level competition. Development is a balance of repetition, variety and challenge. We believe the repetitions happen in training, the variety happens in games and both should have a challenge!

Missoula Surf values its coaches and we provide mentorship at every level and encouragement to each coach’s continuing education. We encourage coaches to grow on every level, game knowledge, methodology, communication and their pedagogy. We want the. coaches to be as hungry in their development as the players, thus providing the team’s environment with a constant vibe of ever reaching improvement!