ABILENE, Texas – Hardin-Simmons' Associate Vice President for Athletics Dr. John Neese has named Austin Guest the 11^th men's soccer coach in program history.
  
Coach Guest graduated from Texas Christian with a Bachelor's in political science and a minor in psychology in 1991. He played soccer for the Horned Frogs and was a USISL All-Star three times and has more than 800 career wins at the high school level and is in the TASCO Hall of Honor. 
 
Coach Guest coached at Midlothian high school where he worked as an educator since 2004, coaching both women's and men's soccer through the years. He has 91 play-off wins, and won state championships for boys' soccer in 2003 and 2024. The 2025 girls' team finished in the 5A state semi-finals under coach Guest.
 
He led the teams to 46 play-off appearances in 51 seasons, and was named the United Soccer Coaches state coach of the year in 2024, and has been named the district coach of the year 29 times, winning 29 district championships.
 
Coach Guest has been a member of TASCO, THSCA, and TGCA coaching school clinics, serving as a senior showcase coach for six years and was previously the TASCO president.
 
Before working at Midlothian high school, coach Guest coached at Red Oak high school for nine years. He has also coached with DFW Tornado premier arena soccer, Southwestern Assemblies of God (Nelson University), North Texas Soccer Association, the Arsenal/Texas Stampede USISL team, and various DFW area club teams for nearly three decades.
 
Coach Guest has his USSF National "B" license, NSCAA Advanced National Diploma, Level 1 and 2 GK Diploma, and Coerver Youth Diploma 1 and 2.
 
Coach Guest is a Texas native and graduated from Red Oak high school as the Valedictorian in 1985.

Coach Guest will be the head coach for the Cowboy soccer team, following Brad Bankhead departing for the head coach job at Dallas Baptist.
 
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