Coach Smucker is nearing the end of his first year with the Pacesetter Soccer Club. Smucker’s connection with soccer started at Central Christian High School where he completed his senior season as an All-Conference and All-Ohio selection in 1987. From there he traveled to Hesston College, KS, where he was named team captain and received All-Conference and All-Region selections. He completed his collegiate career at Goshen College in 1991. From Indiana, Coach Smucker moved East to the greater Philadelphia area where he taught and coached at Dock Academy. It was during this time that he accrued several soccer licenses as well as a State High School Soccer Championship and a master’s in kinesiology from Temple University. In 2002 Smucker and his young family moved to Bluffton, Ohio, where he taught and coached the men’s and women’s soccer teams at Bluffton University. He was also the boy’s high school Director of Coaching for the Findlay Soccer Club (Now Pacesetter South). In 2010 Smucker went back into teaching and returned to coaching at the high school level. In 2012 he was named head coach at Bluffton High school. In 2022, after five district titles, seven consecutive conference championships, and a 2019 state finals appearance, Smucker transitioned to coaching high school girls’ soccer in the Lima Bath school district, where he teaches middle school physical education. Smucker keeps his sanity by spending quality time with his wife, Judy, while watching Star Trek and various sitcoms. They have two children, Tristan and Sophia, a senior and sophomore at Goshen College. Both played soccer under Smucker’s coaching, and Tristan still plays at the collegiate level.