Kevin Leacock, who joined the NJIT athletic staff in 2005, steps onto the women’s soccer coaching staff full-time in 2006.
An accomplished player in his own right, Leacock was the Operations Manager for NJIT Athletics in 2005-06, while also assisting the women’s soccer program as a part-time coach.
A native of Trinidad and Tobago, he was a goalkeeper on that country’s Under-21 and Under-23 national teams, where he played alongside many of the players who made international headlines when they tied heavily-favored Sweden at the start of the 2006 World Cup.
Leacock represented his country in the 1993 Central American and Caribbean Games in Puerto Rico and then at the 1994 Pan American Games in Argentina.
He came to the United States in 1995 as a student-athlete at Long Island University in Brooklyn, NY, and competed for four years at the NCAA Division I level as both a goalkeeper and a center back.
At LIU, he was a magna cum laude graduate and recipient of All-American Scholar and “Who’s Who” recognition his last two years. He was a two-time Northeast Conference all-academic honoree, as well.
Starting in 2004, Leacock coached an Under-17 girls team in the New Jersey Region 1 league. He holds the NSCAA Advanced Regional diploma, as well as the Regional Goalkeeping diploma and he is pursuing a National diploma.
He and his wife, Shannon Evans, reside in Landing, NJ.
