Lyon College

BATESVILLE, Arkansas - Lyon College Athletics is pleased to announce that Robert Pope will be the next Lyon College Scots men’s soccer assistant coach for the 2024 season.

Pope attended the University of the Ozarks in Clarksville, Arkansas from 2015 to 2017 and played a total of 40 matches for the men's soccer team, with 30 starts and four assists. 

In March of 2018, he joined the United States Air Force as Security Forces and was stationed at Edwards Air Force Base. Pope was deployed in June of 2020 to Qatar for six months. He completed his four-year commitment and was honorably discharged as a Staff Sergeant in March of 2022. 

Pope went back to the University of the Ozarks for the fall 2022 semester to finish school and was a volunteer assistant coach for the men's soccer team for the 2022 and 2023 fall and spring seasons while being a full-time student. He graduated, with honors, in May 2024 with a Bachelor of Science in psychology with minors in philosophy and sociology. 

"I am very excited to officially start my coaching career at Lyon College,” Pope said. “I am grateful that I can be a part of this program and have the opportunity to continue to add to its successful history."