Bio

Another year, another solid season of women’s soccer at Orange Coast College, thanks to the leadership of longtime head coach Kevin Smith, who took over the Pirate women's program in 2006.

The Smith-led Pirates was once again one of the top teams in the region, wrapping up the 2013-14 campaign with a 10-5-4 overall record. Coast advanced to the playoffs for the third straight year before falling to Rio Hondo in the Southern California Regional playoffs.

With a steady success of the women's soccer program, Smith has led several teams to the postseason and has helped countless Pirate players move on to the four-year level.

Prior to his arrival at Coast, Smith was a teacher and head boys soccer coach at Cypress High School since 1998.

From 1989-1997, Smith worked at Fountain Valley High School as a resident substitute teacher and was the director of coaching for the boys' varsity soccer program from 1991-97, where he helped guide the Barons to two trips to the CIF-Southern Section finals.

A standout soccer player, Smith attended Edison High School, where he earned all-league honors as a junior and all-league, all-county and All-CIF honors as a senior.

As a collegiate player, Smith played the UC Irvine, where he earned All-Big West Conference honors in 1989, 1991 and 1992 and All-Mountain Pacific Conference in 1993. He left UCI as the school’s all-time scoring leader with 68 points.

Following his ’Eater career, Smith played professional soccer for the Los Angeles Salsa of the USISL (1995), the Bournmouth Football Club of the Jewson Wessex League in England (1994) and the East L.A. Cobras of the USISL (1993).

Smith has also enjoyed coaching stints with the Olympic Development Program (1992-1993), UC Irvine (1993), the Mission Pateadores Soccer Club (1990-1995) and the Wolfpack Soccer Club (1996-2006).

In addition to his time with the women’s soccer program, Smith also is the head coach for OCC’s men’s soccer program.

Smith, his wife, Alyson and his two children, Brynn and Keegan, currently reside in Huntington Beach.