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Apparently, Illinois Tech Head Men's Soccer Coach, Marlon McKenzie, has left for a position as an assistant coach at Denver University for Women's Soccer.

In 2024, he joined Illinois Tech from University of Chicago Women's Soccer, where he had spent the previous 10 years.  After Illinois Tech went 6-9-6 in 2023, McKenzie led them to a 9-7-3 record in 2024 and a 11-6-3 record in 2025.

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Most new head coaches these days were assistant coaches before that or at least have some high level club coaching experience touted in their hiring announcements.  We don't hear about many full-time HS teachers and coaches getting these positions anymore.  Nevertheless, a guy who leads his teams (boys and girls) to the playoffs 46 times in 51 seasons over 21 years, winning 91 playoff games, and has been named district coach of the year 29 times and state champion twice, sounds like a true legend and a pipeline to the talent-rich Dallas-Forth Worth metroplex.

Hardin-Simmons Names Austin Guest as Men's Head Soccer Coach

Hardin-Simmons' Associate Vice President for Athletics Dr. John Neese has named Austin Guest the 11th men's soccer coach in program history.
 
Coach Guest graduated from Texas Christian with a Bachelor's in political science and a minor in psychology in 1991. He played soccer for the Horned Frogs and was a USISL All-Star three times and has more than 800 career wins at the high school level and is in the TASCO Hall of Honor.
 
Coach Guest coached at Midlothian high school where he worked as an educator since 2004, coaching both women's and men's soccer through the years. He has 91 play-off wins, and won state championships for boys' soccer in 2003 and 2024. The 2025 girls' team finished in the 5A state semi-finals under coach Guest.
 
He led the teams to 46 play-off appearances in 51 seasons, and was named the United Soccer Coaches state coach of the year in 2024, and has been named the district coach of the year 29 times, winning 29 district championships.
 
Coach Guest has been a member of TASCO, THSCA, and TGCA coaching school clinics, serving as a senior showcase coach for six years and was previously the TASCO president.
 
Before working at Midlothian high school, coach Guest coached at Red Oak high school for nine years. He has also coached with DFW Tornado premier arena soccer, Southwestern Assemblies of God (Nelson University), North Texas Soccer Association, the Arsenal/Texas Stampede USISL team, and various DFW area club teams for nearly three decades.