Team All-America by the Jewish Sports Review in 2003. 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). He played internationally for Hapoel Ashkelon F.C. in Israel, Lombard-Papa TFC in Hungary, and Olimpia Bălţi in Moldova. International In 2005 Erush competed on Team USA in the 2005 Maccabiah Games in Israel, where the team went on to win a silver medal. Coaching In January 2007 Erush was hired as an assistant coach to Paul Krumpe with the men's Loyola Marymount Lions soccer team at Loyola Marymount University. 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 Men's Soccer Coach of the Cal State Los Angeles Golden Eagles 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. References External links Coaching profile from LMU 1983 births Living people American people of Russian-Jewish descent American soccer players Association football defenders Birmingham High School alumni Cal State Los Angeles Golden Eagles men's soccer California State University, Los Angeles faculty Competitors at