Camp Staff

Brent Erwin Southern Methodist University Soccer is committed to developing quality talent each and every year. Day in and day out, our team experiences intense training that is designed to develop the players to their utmost potential. We work hard to create these training sessions to maximize their abilities. The same focus and attention to detail will be found in our camp program, which is directed towards serious soccer training. At the Brent Erwin SMU Women's Soccer Academy, we will continue the tradition of SMU excellence. The SMU Women's Soccer Academy invites players of all levels who have a desire to improve and develop their talents. We will strive to give our campers a solid base of technical training and combine that with solid tactical instruction. At our camps, we will utilize the latest training techniques. This ensures that every camper receives instruction that not only lets them improve during the week, but also shows them how to practice after camp is over. Each of our campers receives individual and group instruction designed to meet her specific needs and capabilities. We want each of our campers to learn new skills and improve upon those they already have. As Head Coach at SMU, and the camp director of the SMU Women's Soccer Academy, I am looking forward to working with you in developing your game. My staff and I will be involved in every aspect of the camp and are eager to help you develop as a soccer player. I hope that you join us this summer!

Brent Erwin
Head Coach
SMU Women's Soccer


Brent Erwin Derek Leader begins his first year on the SMU staff after spending the last 12 years as women's soccer head coach and assistant director of the prestigious IMG Soccer Academy in Bradenton, Fla. He is among the nation's elite coaches, serving as the U-16 girls' head coach for the Region III Olympic Development Program (ODP) since 1997, head coach of the Bradenton Athletics of the United Soccer League (USL) and a coaching license instructor as a member of the national staff of the United States Soccer Federation; as a member of the SMU staff, Leader will continue working with the Region III ODP program and USSF, and also will assume a position with the Dallas Texans club program. "I'm very excited to have Derek join our staff here at SMU," head coach Brent Erwin said. "He is a proven head coach at the highest levels, with IMG Soccer Academy and the ODP program. Derek brings a wealth of experience to an already-outstanding staff here already with (assistant coaches) Kyle Mittendorf and Joe Waggoner, and he will be instrumental in helping us achieve our goals of winning Conference USA titles and competing for national championships." Before moving to Florida to work at IMG, as well as with the ODP and Bradenton Athletics, Leader held multiple positions in Ohio, where he simultaneously was an assistant coach for the men's and women's teams at Ashland University, head coach for the Ohio-North ODP team, a clinician with the Ohio state staff and head coach with the Emerald Soccer Club in Cleveland. A 1995 graduate of Akron University, Leader is a member of the National Soccer Coaches Association of America and the United States Soccer Coaches Organization, and holds several coaching licenses, including a United States Soccer Federation National "A" License, an NSCAA Premier License and an International Coaching Diploma from the Victoria (British Columbia, Canada) Coaching Institute.

Derek Leader
Assistant Director


Brent Erwin Waggoner began coaching soccer and goalkeepers in 1995 in South Texas. He has played professional soccer for the Houston Hurricanes, the Texas Toros, the Texas Rattlers, and most recently with the Texas Spurs of the PDL. In 1999, Waggoner was invited into the Dallas Burn Pro player combine, entered into the 1999 MLS Superdraft, then invited to train day-to-day with the Dallas Burn organization (now FC Dallas), playing games with their minor league teams. A 1994 graduate from Baylor University, Waggoner has worked in soccer ever since, starting coaching in 1995 as goalkeeper and team coach for the Katy Strikers (now Texas Premier FC) outside of Houston, Texas. Waggoner worked as goalkeeper evaluator for South Texas state teams in the '82, '84, and '85 birth years. In the spring of 1998, Joe coached the '84 girls South Texas ODP state team. He spent four years in Houston, coaching teams and goalkeepers for the Strikers and ODP until moving to Dallas in 1999. Waggoner has worked as goalkeeper coach for the Texas Spurs (two years), Southwest (Now Revolution Premier - five years), Texas Spirit (four years), and Club Classic (four years) soccer clubs. Since 2001, Waggoner has worked as the head goalkeeper coach for North Texas Soccer in the Olympic Development Program working with every age for the boys' and girls' state teams. Waggoner is a clinician for North Texas, educating team and individual coaches on training their goalkeepers. He teaches the goalkeeper portion of many of the E, D, and C clinics in North Texas. Joe has also led instruction at the Annual General Meeting for North Texas, and led goalkeeper education programs for recreational associations in North Texas. He received a national "C" coaching license in 1997. "Joe is an elite goalkeeper coach and we are lucky to have his vast experience and expertise at SMU," states Erwin. "Joe is one of the top goalkeeper coaches in the South, working with many of the top keepers in North Texas and beyond. His knowledge, personality and attitude compliment our team. He does a wonderful job working with all of our goalkeepers and team! He is another perfect fit on our coaching staff."

Joe Waggoner
Director of Goalkeeper Training


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