Montana Surf Welcomes Sydney Rollison as Performance Coach

Montana Surf is excited to welcome Sydney Rollison as our Performance Coach, adding a new dimension to our commitment to long-term player development.

Sydney brings an impressive combination of high-performance training experience and soccer knowledge to Montana Surf. A Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist (CSCS), she holds a master’s degree in Exercise and Nutrition Science, a bachelor’s degree in Kinesiology with a coaching minor, and a U.S. Soccer National D Coaching License.

Her experience spans collegiate, professional, and youth athletics. Sydney spent four years with Montana State University Strength and Conditioning, progressing from intern to graduate assistant and Assistant Football Performance Coach. Her work included football as well as golf, cheer, dance, basketball, track and field, tennis, and rodeo.

She has also worked in professional sports, serving as a strength and conditioning intern with the Los Angeles Dodgers, where she helped execute return-to-play performance plans, collected and analyzed athlete performance data, and worked with professional and minor-league athletes. Most recently, she worked in NFL Combine preparation with XPE Sports, training NFL prospects and offseason professional players.

But what makes Sydney particularly exciting for Montana Surf is that she understands soccer. Sydney is a licensed soccer coach and has coached Bozeman High School and served as a soccer performance coach with the Montana Futbol Foundation in Tanzania, where she led speed and agility education for local staff.

Building Better Athletes, Not Just Better Soccer Players

Adding a performance coach represents an important next step in Montana Surf's player development model.

Technical ability and tactical understanding will always be at the heart of soccer development. But as players progress, their ability to move efficiently, accelerate, decelerate, change direction, generate power, and meet the physical demands of the game becomes increasingly important.

Sydney's work will help us intentionally develop those qualities.

The goal is to create well-rounded athletes through age-appropriate strength, speed, and agility training, improving athletic performance, movement quality, confidence, and long-term development.

Just as importantly, the program will evolve as our players grow.

For younger 7v7 players, the emphasis will be on coordination, movement skills, bodyweight strength, multiple movement patterns, and athletic confidence.

At the 9v9 level, players will begin developing foundational strength and power while learning acceleration, deceleration, running form, jumping and landing mechanics, and efficient changes of direction.

For our 11v11 athletes, training will become increasingly soccer-specific and performance-oriented, with an emphasis on maximum speed, explosive ability, match fitness, acceleration and deceleration, change of direction, and strength and power development.

Another Step Forward for Player Development

Sydney's addition is about much more than making players faster or stronger.

It is about creating a comprehensive, age-appropriate development pathway that recognizes the whole athlete.

Our objective is to help players move better, become stronger and more confident, reduce limitations in their movement, and progressively prepare for the physical demands they will encounter as the game becomes faster and more competitive.

The expected result is a long-term pathway that develops speed, power, agility, strength, movement efficiency, and confidence from our younger age groups through our advanced players.

Ultimately, this is another investment in Montana Surf's commitment to providing our athletes with a high-quality development environment and the resources to pursue their individual potential.

We are thrilled to welcome Sydney to Montana Surf and can't wait for our players to get to work.

Welcome to Surf, Sydney! 🌊⚽