Steve Small has been a member of head coach Steve Widdowson's staff since 2007 and has been instrumental in the program's rise to perennial NCAA and PSAC contender.
With Small on staff, the Marauders have reached the PSAC Tournament in seven of eight seasons and have played in four NCAA Tournaments. The Marauders won back-to-back PSAC East crowns in 2008 and 2009 and won the PSAC Championship in 2011.
The 2007 season was Small's first with the team and Millersville finished with an 11-8-1 record. The Marauders improved upon that mark to win a school-record 18 games in 2008, while capturing the PSAC East title for the first time since 1990. Small was instrumental in helping the Marauders achieve their successes. The team finished as the PSAC runner-up and reached the the NCAA Division II Quarterfinals in its first ever NCAA Tournament appearance. The following season in 2009, Millersville garnered a national No. 1 ranking, a second straight PSAC East title and another NCAA Tournament appearance. In 2011, Small was instrumental in coaching the Marauders to its fifth-straight, 10th overall, PSAC Tournament appearance where Millersville finally captured its first PSAC Championship with a 1-0 win over Bloomsburg. The team went on to play in the NCAA Semifinals. The Marauders again qualified for the NCAA Tournament in 2013.
Small is a 2006 graduate of DeSales University, having earned his bachelor's degree in sport management. He was a three-year starter on the men's soccer team. His six assists in 2002 led the Bulldogs in that category.
Prior to his collegiate career, Small coached within the Lititz Youth Soccer Club, starting at the age of sixteen. He has since spent coaching stints with F.C. Millennium, Leeds United, and Ephrata High School. Small also coached the Penn Legacy Soccer Club for four years. Under Small's guidance, sixteen players from his Leeds United team went on to play soccer collegiately. Four of his players received scholarships to play Division I soccer, while the others went on to play at various top college programs across the three collegiate divisions.
Preceding his coaching career at Millersville, Small served as a scout and an assistant coach for two years at Elizabethtown College and helped lead the Blue Jays to a Middle Atlanitc Conference Championship in 2006. Small received his NSCAA National Coaching Diploma in 2015.
