Mackenzie Akins

I just recently completed my college career and professional season abroad and I have been the head coach of an under 13 girls club team in Montana where I played soccer as well as privately training boys and girls there. I led private training with 2 girls through out high school and have experience being privately trained my whole soccer career. I have also coached many Youth soccer summer camps throughout the past 4 years. I coached many youth teams in Australia as well as personal training.

I played club for the SoCal Blues for 3 years and played for San Diego Surf for two where I won the ECNL National championship in U17 and we were ranked #1 in the nation. In high school I was the leading scorer in the Southern California section my senior year with 45 goals. I went on to play for 4 years at the University of Montana where I was captain, MVP, and made All Conference teams every year. I played professionally in Sweden for one season then played 2 years in Australia for Gold Coast United FC where I was awarded Player of the Year and Golden Boot.

Skills and possession are what I specialize in. First the client would start with a quick 10 minute warm up by jogging and working through movements throughout cones with dynamic stretching. Then, I would start the client out with a drill that focuses on skills on the ball such as dribbling through cones, making moves around cones, etc. for about 15 minutes. Next, (this section will always be changing) I would have the client work on collecting the ball on different surfaces while I strike or throw balls in there direction and they must complete the collection within the box of cones I place around them. We would work on this for about 15-20 minutes. For the last 20 minutes, we will finish with shooting and finishing drills. Depending on the client's skill level the drill would change. But many finishing drills will include the client dribbling at full speed, changing direction with a move and finishing to the opposite post, then the client would be facing opposite the goal, incorporate the collections we had just worked on, and turn to finish as quickly as they can. I like to have the client incorporate what they learn throughout the whole session.