Ian Spooner joined the Trojans as an assistant coach in January of 2021.
Spooner comes to Mount Olive after spending the past three years as a assistant coach for the men's soccer team at Florida Gulf Coast University in Fort Myers, FL. During this time, Spooner helped the Eagles post a 9-8-2 record and reached the ASUN Championship game for the fifth time in program history. Spooner also concluded his first season with the Eagles helping the squad to a 9-5-2 record in 2018 as they captured their seventh ASUN regular season title, including six all-conference nods. As the team’s goalkeeper coach, Spooner helped mold Gustavo Vasconcelos into the ASUN Goalkeeper of the Year in 2018, the program’s third overall winner.
Before FGCU, Spooner spent the previous 10 seasons at San Jacinto College in Texas, including the last six as the head coach of the junior college’s men’s soccer team. A Houston native, Spooner served four years as an assistant coach and was the interim head coach in 2012.
In his six seasons in charge of the Houston-based team, Spooner led San Jacinto to double-figure victories five times, made two NJCAA Final Four appearances (2013, 2016), twice set the program’s single-season wins record and produced five All-Americans. All told, Spooner – who also served as an adjunct professor during his time as the head coach – orchestrated an 80-37-4 record (.678 winning percentage).
Ian Spooner was a four-year starter at Western Michigan from 2001-2004, and proved to be a valuable goalkeeper for the team. While with the Broncos, he was named the club’s Most Valuable Player in 2004 and its Newcomer of the Year in 2001.
Spooner helped the Broncos to the 2003 MAC Championship crown and NCAA Tournament appearance, and a runner-up MAC Tournament finish in 2004. He holds a bachelor’s degree in communication from the Kalamazoo-based school.
