Kenneth Pollard is entering his 11th season as part of the Columbia men's soccer coaching staff in 2022. Pollard joined the Columbia men's soccer program in March 2012 as an assistant coach before being promoted to associate head coach prior to the 2018 season.
Pollard, a Wales, Great Britain, native, was a two-time Division II National Champion as a player at Southern Connecticut State University in 1990 and 1992. He served as an assistant coach at his alma mater from 1997-2001, capturing back-to-back national championships in 1998 and 1999. In 1999 he aided SCSU to a perfect season of 20-0-0.
Following his five-year stint in New Haven, Connecticut, Pollard joined the men's soccer program at Duke University as an assistant coach for the 2002-2003 season. In 2004, he served on the staff of the bronze-medalist women's U-19 National Team at the 2004 FIFA World Cup Championships.
He made his professional coaching debut in 2000 as an assistant coach of the New York/New Jersey Metro Stars in the MLS. In 2003, he joined the staff of the Philadelphia Charge as an assistant coach in the WPL.
Pollard comes to Columbia after serving a year as head coach of the Purchase College women's soccer program from 2009-10. As a first-year head coach, he led Purchase to a 6-2-1 conference record, a 100% improvement from the previous year. Pollard posts an impressive 158-34-14 record in his 11 years in coaching and playing collegiate soccer.
He graduated from Southern Connecticut State University with a bachelor's degree in Human Performance in 1994 and masters in exercise science in 2001.
