Bio
Stephen Peck, Jr. was born and raised in St. Louis, Missouri where he attended McCluer North High School and was an All-State and All-Metro soccer selection his senior year. Peck played four years of collegiate soccer at Butler University in Indianapolis, Indiana. After graduation he played professional soccer with the Cincinnati Cheetahs in the USISL.
Coach Peck started his collegiate coaching career at East Central College as an assistant coach and brought the program into the national spotlight as a head coach from 2000-2004. The Rebels won 4 straight Region 16 titles from 2001-2004. In 2003, He led ECC to the highest place finish in school history taking 3rd Place in the NJCAA Tournament and was named NSCAA National Coach of the Year.
He continued his success at Jefferson College and won four Region 16 Titles from 2005-2008. In 2006, Peck's Jefferson College Vikings won the NJCAA DI Men's Soccer National Championship. Peck was named NSCAA National Coach of the Year for a second time.
During Pecks' nine year tenure (5 at East Central; 4 at Jefferson) in NJCAA Region 16 he amassed a win total 147-50-15 combined from Jefferson College 73-20-7 and East Central College 74-30-8. His players garnered NJCAA All-American honors, Academic Honors and one National Player of the Year Award. Many of his players went on to play at the NCAA Division I, II, III and NAIA levels and some have gone on play professionally.
After his junior college run, he took over as head coach at NAIA Culver-Stockton College where he spent two seasons.
Since 2012, Peck has served as the head men's soccer coach at NCAA Division II Oakland City University, He has already reached milestones in a short tenure one which is achieving the men's soccer highest season winning percentage by finishing the 2013 season 11-6-3.
Peck is married to Wendy Sebastian-Peck and they have two children, a son Kai and daughter Mya.