Chris McNaughton enters his fourth season as assistant women's soccer coach in 2012. McNaughton came to UALR in 2009 after spending three seasons as head coach at Lyon College in Batesville, Ark.

Since coming to UALR, McNaughton's guidance has helped lead the Trojans to an appearance in the 2009 Sun Belt Tournament Championship, as well as recognition by the NSCAA for achieving a team GPA of 3.0 or above each of the past three seasons.

In 2009, McNaughton's first season with the team, the Trojans made Sun Belt Tournament history by becoming the first No. 8-seed to knock off a No. 1-seed, scoring a 1-0 overtime victory against Florida International on Nov. 4, 2009. In 2010, the Trojans finished the season with a 7-12-1 overall record and narrowly missed qualifying for the Sun Belt Tournament for what would have been the fifth-straight year. UALR again missed the playoffs in 2011, finishing the season with a 7-13-0 mark and a 3-8-0 record in league play.

Prior to UALR, McNaughton compiled a 34-19-3 overall record in three seasons with at Lyon College, after taking over a program which went a combined 8-39-0 prior to his arrival. He inherited a program which went 3-13 during the 2005 season and guided the Pipers to a 13-6 record in his first season as head coach. The 2006 squad recorded the program's first postseason victory with a win in the TranSouth Athletic Conference Tournament and earned an at-large bid to the Region XI Tournament for the first time in school history.

McNaughton led Lyon College to a second-straight winning season in 2007 (9-8-1) before losing to eventual NAIA National Champion Martin Methodist College in the semifinals of the TranSouth Athletic Tournament. In 2008, the Pipers put together a 12-5-2 record and tied for second in the conference with a 4-1-1 mark - the highest finish in the program's history. The Pipers once again advanced to the semifinals of the conference tournament and received votes in the NAIA Top 25 poll for eight of the last nine weeks of the season.

Prior to taking over at Lyon College, McNaughton was the assistant men's and women's soccer coach at Ottawa (Kan.) University from 2002-05. In four seasons at Ottawa University, McNaughton helped lead the women's soccer team to three-consecutive KCAC postseason tournament championships (2002-04) and three-straight KCAC regular season titles (2003-05). The Lady Braves made four-consecutive NAIA Region IV appearances, while the men's program won the 2004 KCAC postseason tournament title on its way to the first Region IV Tournament appearance in school history.

In his ten years of coaching experience, he has helped develop 26 All-Conference, five All-Region and two All-America selections, as well as eight TranSouth Athletic Conference Scholar Athletes.

McNaughton was a five-time NAIA Academic All-American at Ottawa University, graduating in 2002 with a bachelor's degree in business administration and a minor in management information systems. He went on to earn his master's degree in business administration from Ottawa University in 2004.

After starting at Missouri Valley College, McNaughton went on to earn KCAC All-Conference honors during his playing career at Ottawa University (1999-01). While in high school, McNaughton earned All-State, All-District and All-Conference honors at Harrisonville (Mo.) HS. He is a member of the NAIA Champions of Character and the National Soccer Coaches Association of America, and earned his premier diploma from the NSCAA in 2009.

McNaughton is a member of the United States Soccer Federation (USSF) and obtained his USSF "B" License in coaching education in January of 2011.