Kevin Roper has been coaching soccer for more than 40 years and continues as a goalkeeper coach for the Lady Jackets.  He returned to the coaching staff in 2001 after previously serving as an assistant from 1995 through 1997.

Roper was a member of the coaching staff at Munro College in Jamaica from 1979-85 and again in 1997-99. He later served as goalkeeper coach at NCAA Division I Coastal Carolina University in South Carolina from 1985-88 and has long been active in various soccer camps.

A 1979 graduate of Southampton University in England, Dr. Roper earned his Ph.D. from the University of Kentucky in 1995. He attained a master’s degree in education from the University of South Carolina in 1988.

Roper is a professor of mathematics at Cedarville University. His wife, Lynn, is an assistant professor of special education at the University.