Enters 3rd season as WWU Assistant Coach. Pitts joined the WWU men's soccer program in March 2023 after one season as an assistant coach with the Claremont-Mudd-Scripps men's soccer program in 2022. Prior to CMS Pitts was an assistant coach at Marymount California University, helping lead the program to the NAIA national tournament.
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Pitts also has experience coaching at the club and high school levels as an assistant coach with Redondo Union High School, helping the squad to a 2022 CIF Southern Section Championship and a 17-6-2 overall record. He also worked with the JV program at Brentwood School for two seasons (2017-18), helping his squads to back-to-back undefeated seasons and a combined 28-0-2 record.
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At the club level, Pitts has worked with the Beach Futbol Club in Manhattan Beach from 2020-22, where he planned, organized and facilitated all the day-to-day responsibilities of the B2013 and B2011 youth teams.
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A former student-athlete at the NCAA Division II level, Pitts was a standout at Humboldt State from 2011-15, leading the Lumberjacks in goals scored during his junior and senior seasons. During his collegiate playing days Pitts was a First Team All-CCAA performer, NSCAA All-Region selection and team captain as a senior.
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After graduating from Humboldt State with a degree in communication, Pitts played for the Puget Sound Gunners FC of the PDL in 2015, and then for the L.A. Wolves of the UPSL from 2016-18, where he played for former U.S. National Team member Eric Wynalda and led the team in scoring twice. The Wolves earned a 2017 USPL National Championship, as well as capturing the Cal South Amateur State Cup and Regional Cup before placing third at the 2017 National Amateur Cup in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
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He is a native of Manhattan Beach, California.
