Kevin Coye (born July 19, 1975) is a retired American

soccer Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players who primarily use their feet to propel the ball around a rectangular field called a pitch. The objective of the game is ...

defender who played professionally in the

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. Growing up, Coye played his club soccer with the North Huntington Beach Futbol Club. In 1993, he graduated from

Ocean View High School Ocean View High School (OVHS) is a public comprehensive college-prep academy located in Huntington Beach, California. OVHS was established in 1976; their mascot is the Seahawks. Currently, there are approximately 1,470 enrolled students. It is par ...

. He attended

UCLA The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is a public land-grant research university in Los Angeles, California. UCLA's academic roots were established in 1881 as a teachers college then known as the southern branch of the California St ...

, playing on the men’s soccer team from 1994 to 1997. Coye and his teammates won the 1997 NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Championship. In February 1998, the

New England Revolution The New England Revolution is an American professional soccer club based in the Greater Boston area that competes in Major League Soccer (MLS), in the Eastern Conference of the league. It is one of the ten charter clubs of MLS, having compet ...

selected Coye in the third round (twenty-ninth overall) of the

1998 MLS College Draft The 1998 Major League Soccer College Draft was held in Fort Lauderdale, Florida on January 31 and February 1, 1998. The College Draft was followed by the 1998 MLS Supplemental Draft. Format On Saturday, January 31, 1998, Major League Soccer held ...

. The Revolution sent him on loan to both MLS Pro 40 and the

Worcester Wildfire Worcester may refer to: Places United Kingdom * Worcester, England, a city and the county town of Worcestershire in England ** Worcester (UK Parliament constituency), an area represented by a Member of Parliament * Worcester Park, London, Englan ...

before waiving him on June 6, 1998. In July, Coye played for the Boston Bulldogs. In August 1998, Coye joined the

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.Zodiac Tonight
/ref> In 1999, Coye began the season with the

Cape Cod Crusaders Cape Cod Crusaders were an American association football, soccer team based in Buzzards Bay, Massachusetts, United States. Founded in 1994, the team played in the USL Premier Development League (PDL), the fourth tier of the American Soccer Pyrami ...

and finished it with the Boston Bulldogs. Kevin is a lover of podcasts and attributes this platform fixation from his brothers-in-law. One of his brothers-in-law is a wine executive, who Kevin has been quoted as saying, “He’s my guiding light and my moral compass!”

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Coye, Kevin Living people 1976 births American men's soccer players Boston Bulldogs (soccer) players Cape Cod Crusaders players New England Revolution players Orange County Blue Star players UCLA Bruins men's soccer players Worcester Wildfire players MLS Pro-40 players A-League (1995–2004) players New England Revolution draft picks Men's association football defenders Ocean View High School alumni Sportspeople from Huntington Beach, California