Coach Tim Brooks is entering his 1st season as the head coach of the University of the Cumberlands Men’s Soccer program.
Coach Brooks comes to UC with 7 years of head coaching experience after a stint at UC as a player and then assistant coach. As a player, Brooks was a 2nd Team All-American at then Cumberland College and earned 1st Team All Mid-South Conference accolades. He was chosen his team’s Most Valuable player (MVP) and served as the football team’s kicker and punter in his senior year. Brooks spent his freshman year at Oral Roberts University in Tulsa, Okla., where he was recognized with selection to the Mid-Continent Conference 2nd Team All-Conference squad and won the 1999 MCC Championship. Brooks was the Assistant Men’s Soccer Coach/Goalkeepers Coach here at UC from 2004 to 2007 where he twice developed an All-Conference goalkeeper and his teams were ranked as high as No. 20 in the NAIA. After leaving UC, Brooks had a successful three-year stay with the University of Great Falls (UGF) in Montana where he held an overall record of 24-16-1 after starting the program in May of 2007. At UGF, Brooks’ squad was a finalist at NAIA Unaffiliated/Independent Conference Tournament in 2009 in only its third year of competition and finished with a 15-5 record. In 2008, UGF compiled an 8-8-1 record in its first full season of play and was a semifinalist at the UIC Tournament. His latest tenure was at Spring Hill College (SHC) in Mobile, Alabama. Brooks led the Badgers to back-to-back 10-win seasons in 2011 and 2012, posting the first consecutive winning seasons in team history. During his four years at SHC, Brooks has coached 14 SSAC All-Academic Team members, five Daktronics-NAIA Scholar Athletes, and a 3rd team CoSIDA Academic All-American Team member in goalkeeper Cory Bronenkamp.
