Alex Smith starts his third season in charge of the men's soccer program at Concord in 2025. 

Smith built off an ultra-successful first season in 2023 with a historic and record-breaking 2024 campaign. 

The Mountain Lions set the single-season program wins record (15) as Concord qualified for the NCAA Tournament for the first time in program history. And CU went ahead and won the first game of the NCAA Tournament with a penalty shootout win over New Haven. Concord scored the second-most goals in program history (57) on its way to play in the Mountain East Conference Championship game. 

A high-powered offense led the way for the Mountain Lions in Smith's second season with two of the four All-Atlantic Region coming from the team's top-two goal scorers, Syrus Conolly and Mahler Santi Possu. Kai Forsyth, the program's first multi-time all-region selection, and Ted Roberts rounded out the all-region players for Smith and CU in 2024. 

Smith guided Concord to the Mountain Lions to an 8-5-7 record in his first season and a spot in the MEC Semifinals in 2023. It was CU's first postseason berth in more than two decades, and by winning the MEC Quarterfinal game against West Virginia Wesleyan it was the first conference tournament win in program history.

Smith coached an all-region selection in captain and central defender Kai Forsyth in his first season at Concord.

Smith, who is the third head coach in program history, is familiar with the region having spent the 2022 season on the sidelines at Bluefield University in Bluefield, Virginia. The 2022 Rams went 7-9.

Prior to his brief stint at Bluefield, Smith was the head women’s soccer coach at Maine-Fort Kent for two seasons where he compiled a record of 21-12-4 and led UMFK to the USCAA Division I Championship in 2019. The Bengals also played for the USCAA Division I Championship in 2021. In just three years, Smith coached eight NAIA All-Americans at Maine Fort Kent.

Other coaching stops for Smith include being the top assistant at Northwestern Ohio as well as serving as a graduate assistant at Union College in Kentucky—his alma mater.

A standout player for Union in Barbourville, Kentucky from 2013-17, Smith helped the Bulldogs to a 69-27-10 record in five years. Among his accolades were an NAIA Honorable Mention All-American selection at the end of the 2014 season as well as being named the Appalachian Athletic Conference (AAC) Player of the Year the same season. He was a three-time all-conference selection in all. The Montego Bay, Jamaica native ranks fifth at Union in both goals (45) and points (97).

Smith graduated with a bachelor’s degree in business administration and earned his masters degree in educational leadership from Union.
 

School	Year	W	L	T	Win Pct.	Conference Record / Finish
Concord	2023	8	5	7	.575	4-3-7 / Fourth
Concord	2024	15	4	3	.750	11-1-2 / Second
Career	Totals	23	9	10	.667	15-4-9