Women's Soccer

Named the ninth head coach in Tennessee Tech soccer history in April 2024, Cookeville native and Tennessee Tech graduate Corey Boyd enters his first season at the helm of the Golden Eagle program in 2024.

Boyd represents one of Tech's longest-tenured coaches, recently completing his 14^th season on staff with the Golden Eagle soccer program. The veteran coach began his career in the purple and gold in 2010 as an assistant under former head coach Daniel Brizard. 

He remained with the program upon [previous head coach] Steve Springthorpe's arrival for the 2014 campaign, continuing to serve as an assistant coach until 2017, when he was promoted to the role of associate head coach. Boyd proved instrumental to the machine that has become Tech soccer, running the team's technical training and attacking aspects of the game while working specifically with the forwards and midfielders. For the past two years, he expanded that role into leading the full team training sessions, encompassing every student-athlete on the pitch. 

The veteran staffer was heavily involved with recruiting, video analysis, and scouting reports and was a key cog in the program's more recent success in the recruitment and development of international student-athletes.

A former standout on the pitch at Cookeville High School, Boyd was a two-year starter for Emory & Henry College as a winger and striker before playing one season with the Nashville Metros of the USL Premier Development League. He then returned to Cookeville and enrolled at Tennessee Tech, working with the soccer program as a student assistant while securing his undergraduate degree. During his time as a student assistant, he also served as the Director of Coaching at Upper Cumberland United Soccer Club in Cookeville.

Under the watchful eyes of both Springthorpe and Boyd, the Golden Eagle soccer program has developed into one of the more consistently successful squads in both the Ohio Valley Conference and region. Over the last two seasons, the purple and gold captured just its second and third OVC regular season titles in school history, compiling a nearly unblemished mark of 12-1-4 in league play in that span.

The past two seasons saw Boyd's knowledge of the offensive side of the game truly take a step forward, with the Golden Eagles easily boasting the top attack in the league while securing three major award winners from the OVC. Tech paced the OVC in goals, assists, shots, and points in both 2022 and 2023.

Prior to coaching multiple age groups for U.C. United, Boyd was the head coach for the Livingston Crew U17 boys club team in Livingston, Tennessee and the assistant coach for the Abingdon High School men’s soccer team in Abingdon, Virginia. Boyd has also been a Tennessee State team coach for the Olympic Development Program, guiding Tennessee-based teams to compete against other state teams out of Region 3.

A graduate of Cookeville High School, Boyd was a member of the 2002 team that finished the season third in the state with a record of 18-3-1, and advanced to the final four of the state tournament. He was named MVP of the team during his senior season and was also named first-team all-district. Additionally, throughout high school he played club soccer for Cookeville United and was a member of the U19 D2 State Championship team.