Ousmane "OC" Camara joined CSI Women's Soccer as an Assistant Coach in October 2025. Prior to this, he served as Head Coach at Monroe College beginning in January 2024, following a successful tenure at Barton Community College.
Camara spent eight seasons as the head coach of the Cougars, accumulating an overall record of 98-39-13, the most wins in Barton’s program history, with a conference record of 72-21-8 in a challenging Kansas Jayhawk Community College Conference (KJCCC). A strong Cougars team ranked No. 9 in the final NJCAA Div. I Women’s Soccer Rankings this past season after going 12-3-4 overall and 12-1-3 in the KJCCC. Barton earned an at-large selection into the 2023 NJCAA Div. I Women’s Soccer Championship as the No. 9 seed.
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In his eight seasons as head coach for the Barton Community College women’s soccer team, Camara has built the program in a yearly contender on the national level. The Cougars earned their way to the NJCAA Championship tournament each of the past two seasons. In 2022, Camara’s squad earned the program’s first-ever Plains District Championship with a 5-4 shootout victory over No. 4-ranked Butler Community College. Since 2018, Camara has coached six student-athletes to NJCAA Div. I Women’s Soccer All-America honors, and dozens more to All-KJCCC accolades, while also earning two KJCCC Coach of the Year awards.
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Camara’s teams have taken pride in their accolades in the classroom as well. The Cougars have found themselves on the list of NJCAA Academic Team of the Year qualifiers on a yearly basis, while a large portion of Camara’s roster has earned NJCAA All-Academic Team honors. The 2022 Cougars had a team GPA of 3.11, and had its best academic year under Camara’s tutelage in 2019 when they accumulated a team GPA of 3.57 to finish fifth among NJCAA women’s soccer programs.
