(May 1, 2023) Mena, Arkansas – Bucks Athletic Director Jerod McCormick is excited to announce the hiring of Kevin Sherry as the Head Men's and Women's Soccer Coach at UA Rich Mountain. The job vacancy came after Bucks Soccer Coach Casey Weil resigned after being named head girls soccer coach at Graham High School in Texas.
Coach Sherry comes to UA Rich Mountain after a recent stop in Scooba, Mississippi, where he was reinstating a program at East Mississippi Community College. Sherry has had coaching stops at Graceland University, Western Illinois University, Grambling State, and most notably, Louisiana Tech University (2007-21) as the Head Women's Coach with a 162-102-35 record for the Lady Techsters. In his 14 years at LA Tech, Sherry coached 12 players who were selected to the All-Conference team, while three earned Louisiana Player of the Year honors.
Coach Sherry has a track record of turning around soccer programs in his four previous stops. Graceland University never had a winning season in their history. He would compile a record of 46-9-9 in his three seasons between 2001-04. Western Illinois was 24-111-7 over its history, never having a winning season. In his two seasons there in 2005 and 2006, he compiled a record of 20-13-4.
Sherry takes over a pair Bucks programs that qualified for the Region II Tournament the past 3 season on the women's side and all 4 seasons on the men's side.
Athletic Director Jerod McCormick is very excited about the hire of Coach Sherry. "We want to welcome Coach Sherry and his wife to our community and to UA Rich Mountain. His coaching record speaks for itself. He brings a wealth of knowledge and experience on and off the field to our student-athletes. We look forward to having him lead Bucks Soccer."
Kevin Sherry is a native of Wales in the United Kingdom, where he holds undergraduate degrees in physical education/sport science and sociology from Bangor University. He also holds a master's degree from Leicester University in England.
As a student-athlete, Sherry played for the West London Institute of Higher Education, where he was a member of the 1987 British National College Championship winning team. He was selected to play for the FISEC Great Britain U-18 team and went on to play for Bangor City in the United Kingdom and for Morning Star in Hong Kong.
Sherry also owns an impressive international coaching resume that currently includes a four-year association as the lead assistant coach for the Guyana women's national team. He was previously the head men's soccer coach at Nagoya Gakuin University and the Aichi F.C. Nagoya junior youth head coach in Japan, prior to his four-year stint at Graceland. Sherry also worked two years as the director of soccer coaching and player youth development for the Al Nahda National Schools organization in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.
Sherry, and his wife of 29 years, Isabel, are the proud owners of three dogs, Huck, Finn and Becky.
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