Directors
Louie Smothermon
Executive Director
Louie Smothermon came to BRSC on February 1st, 2017, from New Orleans, Louisiana. Louie grew up in Phoenix, Arizona, and was a two-time all-state player at Greenway High School. He went on to Lander University and received his bachelor’s degree in Exercise Science. At Lander, Louie was a 1991 All-American, Palmetto State Conference Player of the Year, District 6 Player of the Year, and Lander Athlete of the Year. Louie received his Master’s Degree in Sport Management from East Tennessee State University where he was a Graduate Assistant of the Year. Louie played professional indoor soccer for the Arizona Sandsharks.
He played professional outdoor soccer for the South Carolina Shamrocks, New Orleans Gamblers, and was a player/assistant coach for the New Orleans Storm. Louie coached at Brother Martin High School in New Orleans for nine years with the last two as the Director of Soccer. Louie was the Director of Coaching for the Carrollton Soccer Association (CSA) in New Orleans for ten years and was instrumental in merging four Clubs in New Orleans, forming the Chicago Fire Juniors Soccer Club. Louie has been directly involved in teams that have won the Region 3 championships and qualified and participated in the U.S. Youth Soccer National League. He has helped develop many players who have gone on to play high school, region team, collegiate level, and in National Team pools. Louie has been on the LSA Olympic Development and U.S. Youth Soccer Region III staff.
In 2021 he was named the inaugural WGCPL Coach of the Year as the head coach of Baton Rouge United Women.
Louie currently holds his USSF “A” license, NSCAA Premier Diploma, USSF “Y” License, and is a certified Life Kinetik trainer. Louie is proud to have two kids, Madelyn and Max.
lsmothermon@brsoccer.org
Marvin Smith
Director of Coaching
Marvin Smith is a native of Trinidad and Tobago. He came to the US on a soccer scholarship to Huntingdon College in Montgomery, AL, where he obtained a Bachelor of Arts in Human Performance and Kinesiology. Smith adds vast knowledge, playing, and coaching experience to our club. As a college player, he was a three-time All-District and an All-American player. Smith was also a member of the Trinidad and Tobago Under -17 National Team and played with the Trinidad and Tobago Football Association (TTFA) first division club Arima United and second division club Bennifica. Smith’s coaching experience includes Head Women’s, Men’s Assistant Coach, Huntingdon College, Director of Coaching, Attack Soccer Club, Head Coach/Player, Alabama Saints – Professional Development League (PDL); Alabama and Louisiana Olympic Development Program (ODP) staff coach.
Coach Smith holds his NSCAA Premier Diploma, USSF “A” License, and National Youth License. He is also the NSCAA State Technical Coordinator for Louisiana as well as a USSF and NSCAA National Instructor.
msmith@brsoccer.org
Paul Fletcher
Director of Soccer Operations / Director of Outreach
Paul grew up in Central America (Panama, Canal Zone). He played soccer in high school for Cristobal High School. He coached his first soccer team while in 11th grade and has coached with BRSC since 1995. Paul led his U18 boys’ team, Bullgators, to the State Cup. His u12 boys BRSC team was a state finalist in the 2012 State Cup. He coached for St. Amant High School and has coached for both the boys and girls teams at St. Michael High School since 2005.
Coach Paul currently holds his USSF National “D” license.
PLAYING EXPERIENCE
2 years of high school soccer
BRSC START DATE
pfletcher@brsoccer.org
Kiran Booluck
Louisiana Elite Soccer Program – Technical Director
USSF: A License, US Educator Instructor
UEFA: B License
FA: Level 1 and 2, FA Level 1 in Goalkeeping.
NSCAA/ United Soccer Coaches: Director of Coaching Diploma, National Youth, National Diploma, Goalkeeping Level 1 and 2.
Coach Kiran Booluck is originally from London, England. He graduated from Southampton Solent University with a bachelor’s of honors degree in Football (soccer)
Studies.
He then moved to the USA, working for Challengers Sports. He worked in the northern states before moving to Dallas, Texas. From there, he eventually moved to Shreveport, LA. In Shreveport, he worked for CABOSA/Shreveport United for 3 Years. There, he served as the head coach for multiple older teams and was in charge of the girl’s junioracademy program.
In July 2015, Coach Kiran moved to Baton Rouge. Since then, he has been the head coach for multiple BRSC Competitive Teams along with being a head coach for
numerous ODP Louisiana Teams and Louisiana TDP MLS NEXT 2006 Boys. During his time as head coach of multiple BRSC competitive teams, he has won 4 state
cups, 3 GSPL’s, 1 President’s Cup, and numerous ranking tournaments and league titles (LCSL) (USYS Mid-south) (USYS National League).
As MLS NEXT head coach, his team qualified for the MLS Flex event in 2023.
This past summer Coach Kiran was the head coach for the GCPL BR United Women’s Soccer team.
Coach Kiran is a US Federation Coaching instructor and the GA Girls Academy Director for Louisiana TDP Elite and the head coach of the 2008 GA Team.
Coach Kiran is also the Head Coach for Episcopal High School Boys Soccer, where the team has finished state runners-up twice (2020, 2021) and back-to-back state champions in 2022-2023 and 2023-2024. Coach Kiran has won multiple coaching accolades during his time as a high school coach, including 8x all-district coach, 3x all-metro coach, 2x all-state coach of the year
along with being named United Soccer Coaches High School Coach of the Year in 2021 and United Soccer Coaches Independent High School Coach of the Year in 2024.
kbooluck@brsoccer.org
Chris Mitchell
Juniors Coaching Director
Chris Mitchell returned to BRSC on May 15th, 2017, from a seven-year stint as the Director of Capital City United Soccer Club. Chris grew up in Baton Rouge playing for BRSA and Baton Rouge High. A member of the Baton Rouge Soccer Associations inaugural select soccer program called United and Jaguars from 1982 – 1989. Team captain, district MVP, All-Metro Star of Stars, District MVP in HS. He went on to receive a scholarship to play soccer at Butler University and received a BS in Marketing. At Butler, he was a four-year letterman and selected to the All-State Collegiate soccer team in 1990. Chris played semi-professionally with the Seattle Sounders(1993) and Arkansas A’s(1994). He returned to Baton Rouge in 1998 and began coaching at BRHS (1998-2001) and with the BR Jaguars. In 1998, Chris became the Premier Soccer Director for BRSA. He ran the BRSC Premier Program from 1998 – 2010. During that time, he became head coach for University High(2001-present) and has lead them to 17 straight quarterfinal berths and two state title runner up appearances in 2009 & 2010.
Coach Mitchell currently holds his USSF “A” coaching license. Chris is married to Angie Mitchell, and they both have two girls: Sophia (07) and Savannah Mitchell (09).
cmitchell@brsoccer.org