Steven Samuel joined head coach Jo Chubb's coaching staff as an assistant coach in February 2023.

Samuel came to Coastal after one season at Old Dominion, serving as a volunteer assistant coach for the Monarchs, which captured the 2022 Sun Belt Conference Women’s Soccer crown in their first season in the league.

In his lone year at ODU, the Monarchs went 9-9-3 overall and 5-4-1 in Sun Belt Conference play.

However, the Monarchs finished the season out strong, winning each of the final two regular-season matches and then running the table in the 2022 Sun Belt Women’s Soccer Championship Tournament with wins over No. 3 Arkansas State, No. 2 South Alabama, and No. 4 James Madison in the championship match.

Samuel helped coach Carla Morich and Ece Turkoglu, who both earned 2022 All-Sun Belt first-team honors and were joined by Riley Kennett in picking up United Soccer Coaches Association All-Southeast Region team honors. Morich was also named to the Virginia Sports Information Directors (VaSID) University Division All-State first team.

Prior to his one season at ODU, Samuel spent two seasons at Mount St Mary’s University in Maryland. 

In his time with the Mountaineers, Samuel worked directly with the attacking unit and oversaw a consistent improvement in offensive production in 2020 and 2021. The 22 goals scored in the 2021 season were the most since 2012. Samuel helped develop five Northeast Conference All-Conference team honorees in the 2020 season, the most in single-season program history. 

Before coaching at the Mount, Samuel spent two seasons as an undergraduate assistant coach at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC). Among his responsibilities were assisting the coaching staff in opposition scouting, and in both individual and team training sessions, as well as helping with video analysis and ID Camps. 

In addition to his time with the Mount and UMBC, Samuel has served as a head coach for numerous youth teams, most notably at Ellicott City SC, FC Frederick, and Virginia Rush.

He holds a United States Soccer Federation (USSF) “C” Coaching license and a United Soccer Coaches Level I Goalkeeping Diploma. 

A native of Lagos, Nigeria, Samuel graduated from UMBC in 2019 with a degree in psychology. He also earned a master’s degree in sports management in 2022 from Mount St Mary’s.