Ron Rainey - Women's Soccer Coach - Dartmouth College Athletics

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Ron Rainey

Title:
Head Coach
Alma Mater:
Wilkes ’92, Trenton State ’94
Email:
ronald.d.rainey@dartmouth.edu
Phone (603):
646-2178
At Dartmouth:
9 Years (2014-2022)

Ron Rainey is entering his ninth year as head coach of the Dartmouth women's soccer team in 2022. He currently holds the record for most wins for a Dartmouth women’s soccer coach with 57, and has won more than 225 games during his head coaching career. In 2018 and 2019, the team had double digit wins for both campaigns which had not happened at Dartmouth since the 2012 season.

Year	Team	W	L	T
1994	UW Parkside	10	6	2
1995	Cincinnati #	-	-	-
1996	Towson	10	7	2
1997	Iowa #	-	-	-
1998	Iowa #	-	-	-
1999	Ball State	1	17	1
2000	Ball State	7	10	2
2001	Ball State	12	6	1
2002	Ball State	14	6	1
2003	Ball State	11	7	2
2004	Ball State	10	3	7
2005	Ball State	15	3	2
2006	Iowa	6	11	2
2007	Iowa	8	8	4
2008	Iowa	9	11	1
2009	Iowa	9	11	0
2010	Iowa	8	9	3
2011	Iowa	13	4	3
2012	Iowa	12	6	3
2013	Iowa	15	7	1
2014	Dartmouth	8	5	4
2015	Dartmouth	8	4	4
2016	Dartmouth	7	7	2
2017	Dartmouth	7	10	0
2018	Dartmouth	10	5	2
2019	Dartmouth	10	6	1
2021	Dartmouth	7	7	1
Total		227	176	51
	# - Assistant
Dartmouth (7)		57-44-14
Iowa (8)		80-67-17
Ball State (7)		70-52-16
Towson (1)		10-7-2
UW Parkside (1)		10-6-2

Rainey coached five All-Ivy honorees in the 2021 season. Allie Winstanley was selected to the first team while Izzy Glennon and Hannah Curtin made the second team with Erin Kawakami and Maddie Mills earning honorable mention. Winstanley was again named to the United Soccer Coaches All-Region team for the second time in her career. Tracey Mills and Winstanley were also named to the CoSIDA Academic All-District I team.

The Big Green had a second-straight double digit win season in 2019, finishing with a 10-6-1 record. Rainey coached four All-Ivy selections that year, including first teamer Bonnie Shea. Winstanley, a second team selection, and Shea were both named to the United Soccer Coaches All-Region team.

In 2018, Rainey led Dartmouth women’s soccer to its most wins since 2012 and a third place finish in the Ivy League standings, the best since 2014. Five players earned All-Ivy honors highlighted by senior Remy Borinsky, who garnered United Soccer Coaches First Team All-Region and NEWISA Second Team All-New England honors.

Rainey coached four All-Ivy League selections in 2017. Senior Brittany Champagne and junior Borinsky were both named to the first team, while freshman Erin Kawakami was named to the Second Team and freshman Shea earned an honorable mention selection.

In 2016 in his third season with the Big Green, Rainey coached Borinsky, Champagne and Lindsay Knutson to All-Ivy honors.

In his second season with the Big Green, Dartmouth finished 8-4-4 overall. In 2015, the Big Green allowed just 11 goals and scored 34. Under Rainey, defender Jackie Friedman took home Ivy League Defensive Player of the Year honors as well as All-Ivy honors for the second consecutive season. Friedman was also named to the National Soccer Coaches Association of America Division I Women’s All-Mid Atlantic Region Second Team. Rainey also coached Borinsky and Lucille Kozlov to Second Team All-Ivy recognition.

Rainey completed his first season with the Big Green in 2014. The team finished with an 8-5-4 record and a second-place finish in the Ivy League with 12 points. In his first-year, Rainey tutored three All-Ivy standouts, first team members Corey Delaney and Friedman and second team keeper Tatiana Saunders.

Delaney and Friedman were also named to the NSCAA All-Mid-Atlantic Region Team. As a group, the team was recognized with an NSCAA Team Academic Award.

On April 15, 2014, Rainey was announced as the new head coach of the Big Green women’s soccer program.

Rainey came to the Upper Valley after spending eight seasons at the helm of the women’s soccer team at the University of Iowa. From 2011 to 2013, he guided the Hawkeyes to three straight seasons of double-digit victories and claimed an at-large bid to the NCAA Tournament in 2013, the first invitation ever for Iowa to the NCAAs.

During his tenure on the Hawkeye sidelines, Rainey steadily improved the team, winning 15 games in 2013 and advancing to the finals of the Big Ten Tournament. He inherited a team that was in a rebuilding mode in 2006, having won a total of nine games over the previous three seasons. But during his first three campaigns, Iowa won a total of 23 contests.

Rainey is the all-time winningest coach in Iowa women’s soccer history, amassing a record of 80-67-17 during his tenure. His teams featured 34 Academic All-Big Ten honorees, five Big Ten Tournament appearances and five Big Ten All-Freshman Team members. The Hawkeyes advanced to the Big Ten Tournament in his second and third seasons on the job, just one less appearance than the nine years before he took the reins.

Before being hired in Iowa City, Rainey served as the head coach at Ball State for the first seven seasons of the women’s soccer program beginning in 1999. Under his tutelage, the Cardinals posted a 70-52-17 mark.

Ball State showed swift improvement under Rainey’s guidance, amassing a 62-25-14 record in his final five years. In 2001, he coached the third-year program to a 12-6-2 mark and was named the Mid-American Conference Coach of the Year. In his final campaign, Rainey guided the Cardinals to a sparkling 15-3-2 season and advanced to the Mid-American Conference Tournament for the fifth straight year.

Prior to starting the program at Ball State, Rainey served as an assistant coach at Iowa for the first two seasons of the Hawkeye program (1997-98). In the inaugural season, the Hawkeyes were named the top first-year program by Soccer Buzz Magazine.

Rainey spent the 1996 season as the head coach at Towson, where in one season he propelled the Tigers to the America East title and a 10-7-2 record. He has also served as an assistant coach at Cincinnati, as well as the head coach and sports information director at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside, where his first-year team compiled a 10-6-2 mark. Rainey was also the graduate assistant coach at Trenton State for two years (1992-93).

Outside the collegiate ranks, Rainey served as a regional staff coach for the Region II Girls Olympic Development Program every summer from 1994 through 2013. He received his United States Soccer Federation (USSF) “A” License in 1996 and his “B” License in 1995. He has also written articles for leading soccer publications, such as Soccer Coaching Magazine, and presented at numerous coaching clinics around the Midwest.

Rainey graduated from Wilkes University in 1992 with degrees in mathematics and English. He received his master’s degree in education from Trenton State in 1994.