Ron Smare is in his seventh season as the Spartans associate head coach and 24th on the San Jose State University men[apos]s soccer coaching staff in 2013.
He has been a member of coach St. Clair staff since he took the program over in 1990. Twice, in 2001 and 2002, Smare was a candidate for the AFLAC National Assistant Coach of the Year award.
In addition to his duties at San Jose State, Smare is a health education teacher at Branham High School in San Jose, and has been the Bruins[apos] varsity girl[apos]s soccer head coach since 1999.
Four times, he has been honored as a Blossom Valley Athletic League (BVAL) Coach of the Year; following the 2000-01, 2001-02, 2003-04 and the 2008-09 season. In addition, in 2005, he was selected the Central Coast Section Honor Coach.
In his tenure at Branham, he has produced 41 all-league players, three league MVPs and 13 Players of the Year. He has racked up five double-digit win seasons and his first victory of the 2012-13 season will be his 100th leading the Bruins.
Smare began his coaching career at San Jose[apos]s Del Mar High School, where he was the head coach for 13 seasons. He had two stints as an assistant coach at West Valley College, from 1979-80 and 1984-85.
He was an assistant coach at Stanford from 1981-83 and joined the San Jose State staff in 1990 after a four years as head coach at Mission College in Santa Clara, Calif.
The 1977 graduate of San Jose State earned his master[apos]s degree from Stanford University in 1981.
Smare and his wife, Susie, an eighth-grade science teacher at Sunnyvale Middle School and former Sunnyvale Middle School Teacher of the Year, reside in San Jose with their two dogs, Charlie and Casey.
He has three stepchildren, Bryce, Chad and Brooke, and the couple has three grandchildren, Mackenzie, Kaitlyn and Nathan.