Cole Schmit enters his sixth season as an assistant coach at San Diego State. In his four seasons with the Aztecs, Schmit has helped guide SDSU to the programs tenth and 11th Mountain West championships and earned a spot in the NCAA tournament in 2017. While on Montezuma Mesa, 14 Aztecs earned All-Mountain West recognition, seven of which were first-team honors and included a pair of first-team honors for midfielder Chloe Frisch. Frisch was named the Mountain West Offensive Player of the Year in 2020 and, in addition, Anna Toohey (2020) and Laura Fuentes (2018) have garnered Mountain West Newcomer of the Year honors. Six student-athletes, Frisch and Mia Root (2017), Fuentes (2018). Rachelle Elve (2019), and Toohey and keeper Alexa Madueno (2020) earned inclusion on the leagues All-Newcomer Team. He has guided four players to United Soccer Coaches All-Region distinction, Frisch and Fuentes (first and second teams in 2020, respectively) and Stacie Moran and Alyiah Utush (first and second teams in 2017, respectively). In the two Mountain West tournaments the Aztecs have participated in in his time on The Mesa, seven players have earned All-Tournament Team selection.  Eight times SDSU players have garnered the Mountain West Player of the Week Award. Schmit arrived at San Diego State from Santa Barbara where he was a womens soccer assistant coach at Westmont College, which is an NAIA institution that competes in the Golden State Athletic Conference (GSAC). In two seasons, he helped the Warriors to a 32-8-4 record, a pair of league titles and two trips to the NAIA tournament. In his first season on the Westmont campus, Schmit and the Warriors won the 2015 GSAC regular season and tournament championships en route to an NAIA quarterfinal appearance. One season later, Westmont advanced to the Round of 16. In addition to the team success, Schmit helped the Warriors collect two GSAC Player-of-the-Year awards, three All-America accolades and eight all-conference honors. Prior to his time at Westmont, Schmit, who owns a USSF E License and an NSCAA Goalkeeping 1 Diploma, was a mens soccer volunteer assistant coach at Pacific in 2014. In his one season in Stockton, he helped the first-year program become what is now considered a contender in the West Coast Conference. Schmit played collegiately at California Baptist where he helped the Lancers to a 58-21-4 record after scoring 10 goals and logging nine assists in 83 games (59 starts). In his time at CBU, the Lancers won the NCCAA Division I national championship in 2011 and 2012 and won the 2011 Pacific West Conference title. Individually, Schmit was an NSCAA/NCCAA Division I first-team All-American and an All-PacWest first-team midfielder in 2012. His success on the field translated in the classroom as he earned a spot on the All-PacWest academic team three times and was recognized as an NCCAA Scholar-Athlete. Schmit graduated cum laude with a bachelors degree in marketing from California Baptist in 2014.