To answer your first question: SPARQ is an acronym, standing for Speed, Power, Agility, Reaction and Quickness. In conjunction with Nike, the team at SPARQ has been testing athletes across the country to measure these athletic qualities and to create a national matrix against which one can test themselves as an individual and as a team. SPARQ has comprehensive assessment protocols specifically for soccer that are designed to test the skills and unique brand of athleticism relevant to our sport.

The Neusport Nike SPARQ Camp will be run by Ryan Purtell, of SPARQ Training. Ryan have been working with various Neusport teams and players throughout the 2008-09 soccer season and have noticeably improved each of those player’s speed, power, agility, reaction & quickness. These summer clinics allow you to experience the power of SPARQ yourself!

Besides work done within team practice, at SPARQtraining.com, players can learn about, interact with and receive training tips, drills and programs from a broad network of world-class SPARQ Trainers.

As SPARQ’s mission is to help athletes improve in all of those areas through focused, dynamic training, there is no question that this is a good fit with Neusport’s goals as well. The end goal: a more complete athlete – blazing speed, explosive power, fluid agility, innate reaction and jump-start quickness.