Leadership & Mentorship
The Coach Who Built a Pipeline
Elena Park has sent 47 Summerlin girls to college on soccer scholarships. She's not done counting.
Featuring Elena Park · June 8, 2026
“I'm not coaching soccer. I'm coaching belief that travels with them.”
The First Cohort\n\nWhen Elena Park took over the under-12 club team in 2014, she had nine players and a borrowed cones bag.\n\n## A Decade of Pipelines\n\nForty-seven scholarship offers later, her program is the most consistent feeder in southern Nevada.\n\n## What She's Building Now\n\n"I'm not coaching soccer. I'm coaching belief that travels with them."
Elena Park is the founder of Valley United Soccer Academy and a former NCAA Division I athlete.
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