Michael Erush

College Erush was a Loyola Marymount University Lions men's soccer standout, a four-time All-West Coast Conference (WCC) selection (2000, 2001, 2002), was named First Team in 2003, and served as team captain during his junior and senior seasons. During his last three years, he helped the Lions advance to the NCAA Tournament, and in 2003 finished in a first-round bye and national seeding (#13) in the postseason. He was inducted into the Loyola Marymount Athletics Hall of Fame in 2017.

Professional

Erush played in Major League Soccer for the Colorado Rapids (2004), Chivas USA (2005), and Miami FC (2006). In 2014, he was promoted to associate head coach, and remained in that position through 2018.

Erush, having played with the amateur Hollywood United team in Los Angeles for several years, was hired as the first-ever head coach of the Hollywood United Hitmen in the USL Premier Development League in 2009. He moved to become head coach of the Orange County Blue Star in 2010. That year he also headed up the USA team that competed at the Maccabiah Australia International Games, winning the silver medal. From 2009 to 2014 Erush also coached the South Bay Force and the Fram Soccer Club.

From 2011 to 2015, Erush was a United States Soccer Federation Southern California Scout, and evaluated, developed, and scouted youth players for the U.S. national teams. In 2014, he joined the L.A. Galaxy Academy Youth Staff.

In December 2015, Erush served as the soccer Head Coach for the Maccabiah Pan Am games in Santiago, Chile. He served as Head Coach for soccer for Team USA for the 2017 Maccabiah Games in Israel.

Since 2018 Erush has been the head coach of the Cal State Los Angeles Golden Eagles men's team at California State University-Los Angeles. The coaching staff that he was part of was named the 2021 Coaching Staff of the Year by the United Soccer Coaches.