Head Coach of the Trinidad and Tobago Men's Senior Football Team, Stephen Hart, has been inducted into the Saint Mary’s University Sport Hall of Fame.
SMU said of Hart:
He was a successful player and coach like few others and it began in Trinidad and Tobago. Stephen Hart joined the Huskies in 1981 and four years later was an AUS all-star midfielder.
He would return to SMU and a 4 year stint as the Women’s soccer coach. He would play for and later coach one of the city’s best known senior team’s Halifax King of Donair.
Hart was heavily involved with Soccer N.S. as technical director before heading to the Canadian National program where he ran the under 18 and under 20 programs. Success at that level would lead to a stint as interim head coach of Canada’s National team and eventually the head coaching position. In 2009 he would lead Canada to one of its best international finishes, the quarter finals of the Gold Cup.
Hart is currently head coach of the Trinidad and Tobago Men’s National Team.
Player and coach, a lasting soccer legacy that began in Trinidad and Tobago and flourished at SMU.