Kevin Leacock, who joined the NJIT athletic staff in 2005, became the full-time women's assistant coach in 2006.

An accomplished player in his own right, Leacock was the Operations Manager for NJIT Athletics in 2005-06, while also assisting NJIT as a part-time soccer coach in 2005.

His coaching ability was recognized in July 2007, when he worked with the United States under-16 Girls National Team training as one of two assistant coaches.

After the 2006 season, Leacock and head coach Alyssa Radu launched a recruiting effort that effectively doubled the size of the roster, with 10 freshmen on the 21-player 2007 preseason roster.

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 for tying heavily-favored Sweden opening 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 as both a goalkeeper and a center back. At LIU, he was a magna cum laude graduate and recipient of numerous academic awards, including twice being a Northeast Conference all-academic honoree.

Beginning in 2004, Leacock coached an under-17 girls team in the New Jersey Region 1 league. He holds the NSCAA National diploma, as well as the Regional goalkeeping diploma.

He and his wife, Shannon Evans, reside in Belleville, NJ.