Four players from San Diego Surf just got invited to train alongside NWSL professionals at the Coachella Valley Invitational. The membership platform behind America’s most decorated youth soccer club? We built that.
The Headlines
In February 2026, San Diego Surf announced that four of its players — Brooke Volpp, Lolly Mirhashemi, Addison Dean, and Kayleigh Cabigon — were invited to the NWSL Coachella Valley Invitational to compete with the San Diego Wave FC. Surf was the only youth club in the nation to have four players invited.
This came on the heels of back-to-back ECNL National Championships at both the U13 and U14 age groups in July 2025 in Richmond, Virginia — the only reigning champion to successfully defend their title in either ECNL Boys or Girls that season.
The Scale
Founded in 1977, San Diego Surf is one of the most successful youth soccer organizations in the United States:
- 21 National Championships — 7 since joining ECNL in 2020
- 132 teams and 2,147 active players across 4 regional locations
- 200+ national team players developed — more than any other youth club in the country
- 3-time ECNL National Club of the Year
- $120 million annual economic impact on San Diego — 490,000+ event attendees per year
Where Surf Players End Up
The club’s alumni roster reads like a professional scouting report:
- Catarina Macario — Chelsea FC, 2x Hermann Trophy Winner, U.S. Women’s National Team
- Luca De La Torre — Charlotte FC, U.S. Men’s National Team, 2022 World Cup qualifier
- Melanie Barcenas — youngest NWSL signee in history at age 15, currently with San Diego Wave FC
In the last five years alone, 165 Surf players have gone on to play at the collegiate level — 130 of them at Division 1 schools.
What We Built
MOTS Technologies originally built the membership system that powers Surf Soccer’s operations — player registrations, team management, and organizational infrastructure across four regional locations serving over 2,100 players.
When you’re running 132 teams across multiple facilities with hundreds of thousands of event attendees a year, the platform behind it has to work. That’s what we built.
Why This Matters
Behind every championship club is infrastructure that just works — registrations that process, rosters that update, operations that scale. The kind of technology nobody thinks about until it breaks. We built the kind that doesn’t.