In eighteen seasons under coach Steve Smith < sdsmith@hope.edu >, Hope College men's soccer has become a highly regarded program among NCAA Division III teams. Averaging 13 victories a season, coach Smith ranked 18th nationally among all active NCAA Division III coaches by winning percentage entering the 2007 season. He also ranked in the top twenty among the winningest all-time Division III coaches by percentage (19th). The 2007 Flying Dutchmen finished second in the Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association (MIAA). Coach Smith's record through the 2007 season is 251-84-24, .758. His mark against MIAA opponents is 169-46-14. Coach Smith has taken his teams on international trips three times, most recently in 2005. He has guided the Flying Dutchmen to eight MIAA championships (1992, 1994, 1995, 1996, 2002, 2003, 2005 and 2006) and appeared in the NCAA tournament eight times (1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 2002, 2003, 2005 and 2006). In 1996 Hope became the first MIAA team to win three consecutive outright conference championships. The 2005 team won a school-record 13 games against league opponents. In 1994 Smith was voted the Mideast Region Division III Coach of the Year. A professor of kinesiology at Hope, Smith received his doctorate degree in motor development from Michigan State University. While growing up in Lansing, Mich., he played soccer at Capital City Christian High School. He played soccer four years at Grand Rapids Baptist College (1978-81) where he received his bachelor's degree. He coached soccer at Lansing Christian High School while working toward his masters degree at MSU. He also did a soccer internship with Michigan State University coach Joe Baum. He was assistant soccer coach at Manchester College in Indiana in 1988 and 1989. Smith taught undergraduate classes in growth and motor development, measurement and evaluation, and elementary physical education methodology at Michigan State and Manchester. He has a strong background in adapted physical education including the teaching of physically and mentally retarded children. He instituted the "I CAN" program for a school district which previously had no physical education for the handicapped. Smith and his wife, Nancy, have two sons, Trevor and McCall, and a daughter, Shanley.

Hope Under Coach Smith

Year	Overall	MIAA	Place	NCAA
1990	11-5-2	6-4-2	Third
1991	12-6-0	7-5-0	Third
1992	16-2-1	10-1-1	First
1993	13-5-1	8-3-1	Second
1994	16-2-3	10-1-1	First	2-1-0
1995	15-3-1	10-1-1	First	0-1-0
1996	16-2-1	11-1-0	First	0-1-0
1997	15-5-1	9-3-0	Second	0-1-0
1998	7-10-3	6-6-2	Sixth
1999	13-6-1	9-4-1	Fourth
2000	11-8-1	8-4	Third
2001	16-3-1	8-3-1	Second
2002	17-5-1	10-2	First (tie)	2-1-0
2003	14-4-4	9-1-2	First (tie)	1-1-0
2004	15-5-0	12-2-0	Second
2005	17-4-0	13-1-0	First	0-1-0
2006	14-4-2	12-1-1	First	0-1-0
2007	13-6-1	10-3-1	Second

All-time Hope Soccer Coaching Records

Coach	Seasons	W-L-T	Pct.	MIAA Titles
Phil Van Eyl	5 (1963-67)	16-19-2	.432
Bill Vanderbilt, Sr.	2 (1968-69)	9-11-0	.450
Gene Brown	3 (1970-72)	23-14-0	.622	2 (10-5-0)
Glenn Van Wieren	8 (1973-79, 1988)	55-67-7	.454	1 (37-30-5)
Gregg Afman	5 (1980-84)	59-23-6	.705	2 (43-11-4)
Todd Kamstra	3 (1985-87)	28-19-4	.671	0 (22-11-3)
Todd Winkler	1 (1989)	6-10-2	.389	0 (4-8-0)
Steven Smith	18(1990-2007)	251-84-24	.758	8 (169-46-14)