| Coach Rainey |
| Hometown |
Wilmington, Del. |
| College |
Wilkes '92 - B.S.
Trenton State '94G - M.A. |
| High School |
A.I. duPont (Wilmington, Del.) '87 |
| Family |
Wife, Margaret, son, Wade, daughters, Sally and Mary |
| Playing History |
| 1988 |
Virginia Tech (D) |
| 1989-91 |
Wilkes (D) |
| Coaching History |
| 1992-93 |
Trenton State, Graduate Assistant |
| 1994 |
Wisconsin-Parkside, Head Coach |
| 1995 |
Cincinnati, Assistant Coach |
| 1996 |
Towson, Head Coach |
| 1997-98 |
Iowa, Assistant Coach |
| 1999-05 |
Ball State, Head Coach |
| 2006-13 |
Iowa, Head Coach |
| 2014-22 |
Dartmouth, Head Coach |
| 2023-pre. |
Albion, Head Coach |
| Postseason Coached |
| 1996 |
America East Tournament - Champions |
| 2001 |
MAC Tournament - Quarterfinals |
| 2002 |
MAC Tournament - Semifinals |
| 2003 |
MAC Tournament - Quarterfinals |
| 2004 |
MAC Tournament - Quarterfinals |
| 2005 |
MAC Tournament - Quarterfinals |
| 2007 |
Big 10 Tournament - Quarterfinals |
| 2008 |
Big 10 Tournament - Quarterfinals |
| 2011 |
Big 10 Tournament - Quarterfinals |
| 2012 |
Big 10 Tournament - Quarterfinals |
| 2013 |
Big 10 Tournament - Championship
NCAA Tournament - First Round |
| 2023 |
MIAA Tournament - Semifinals |
| 2024 |
MIAA Tournament - First Round |
| 2025 |
MIAA Tournament - First Round |
| Career Head Coaching Record |
| 1994 |
Wisconsin-Parkside, 10-6-2 |
| 1996 |
Towson, 10-7-2 |
| 1999 |
Ball State, 1-17-1 |
| 2000 |
Ball State, 7-10-2 |
| 2001 |
Ball State, 12-6-2 |
| 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 |
| 2020 |
Dartmouth, season canceled (COVID-19) |
| 2021 |
Dartmouth, 7-7-1 |
| 2022 |
Dartmouth, 8-7-2 |
| 2023 |
Albion, 6-2-10 |
| 2024 |
Albion, 4-10-3 |
| 2025 |
Albion, 10-5-2 |
| Totals |
Wisconsin-Parkside, 1 season (10-6-2)
Towson, 1 season (10-7-2)
Ball State, 7 seasons (70-52-17)
Iowa, 8 seasons (80-67-17)
Dartmouth, 8 seasons (65-51-16)
Albion, 3 seasons (20-17-15)
28 Seasons (255-200-69) |
Ron Rainey brought over 30 years of high-level coaching experience to Albion when he was hired in 2023.
On September 13, 2025, Rainey earned his 250th career victory in a 4-1 rout of Heidelberg.
In his first three seasons at the helm of the Britons program, Rainey has guided each of his teams MIAA Tournament appearances. He has also coached a total of nine All-MIAA selections, including three first teamers in 2023.
During the 2025 season, Rainey led the Britons to their first 10-win campaign since 2021 and their third such season in a decade. He coached freshmen Chloe Salo and Diane Hurtado to second-team All-MIAA honors, as they were the only pair of freshmen from the same team to make the list.
Salo registered nine goals, which was tied for second in the MIAA following the conclusion of the regular season, and one assist. She also tied for fourth in the conference in points with 19.
Salo had one of the finest debuts of any Briton in program history. In Albion's 8-1, season-opening victory over Bluffton on August 29, 2025, she scored a hat trick in the first 17:26 of the match that garnered her MIAA Offensive Player of the Week honors.
It was Albion's first individual three-goal performance since Emily Brittain's trifecta on March 26, 2021 against Olivet.
Hurtado posted three goals and six assists on the season. The assists total was tied for third in the MIAA once the regular season finished.
In 2023, Albion set the NCAA Division III record for most ties in a single season with 10. They also tied the all-time record for most 0-0 ties in a single season with five, backed by first-team All-MIAA goalkeeper Romee Natschke who racked up the conference's best save percentage (.880) that was ranked top-25 nationally.
Rainey joined the Britons after spending nine seasons as the head coach at Dartmouth College in the Ivy League.
As the longest tenured coach in Big Green history, Rainey left Dartmouth as the program's all-time winningest coach with 65 victories. In 2018 and 2019, the team posted back-to-back 10+ win seasons for the first time since 2005-06.
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.
During his tenure with Dartmouth, the team received the NSCAA Team Academic Award for eight consecutive seasons. Rainey also mentored numerous athletes to All-Ivy League and All-Region honors.
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.
An accomplished player, Rainey was a three-year starting backer at Wilkes University from 1989-91 after playing at Virginia Tech in 1988. As a member of the Colonels, he was a three-time All-Middle Atlantic Conference selection that included first-team honors in 1990 and 1991.
He was also named first-team Mid-Atlantic Region Scholar-Athlete during those two seasons.
Rainey helped Wilkes to their best three-year stretch in program history with a combined record of 41-18-3. In 1991, the Colonels notched program-bests 16 wins and 13 shutouts as Rainey notched four game-winning goals that year.
Rainey's 28 career goals and 72 career points still rank fourth in program history. He also became just the third Colonel to score three or more goals in a single game more than once.
Rainey's father, Ron Gene Rainey, was the former head men's basketball coach at Wilkes and Delaware before becoming an assistant at Wisconsin-Platteville under Basketball Hall of Famer Bo Ryan, who played for Rainey as a high schooler at Chester High School outside of Philadelphia.
A two-sport athlete at Penn State University, Ron Gene played basketball (1955-58) and baseball (1957-58) for the Nittany Lions. He was the leading scorer on the basketball team as a junior and senior while being a team captain as a senior. Additionally, he was the starting outfielder on the 1957 baseball squad that was runner-up in the College World Series.
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.
Him and his wife, Margaret, have a son, Wade, and two daughters, Sally and Mary.
Sally is the starting goalkeeper at Indiana after grad transferring in from New Hampshire (2021-24) where she was a two-time America East Goalkeeper of the Year and all-region selection.
Mary is a three-year starting forward for Division III Bowdoin in Maine, and Wade attended the University of South Carolina and is a current J.D. candidate at Northwestern's Pritzker School of Law.
RON RAINEY MILESTONE WINS
No. 1: September 14, 1994 (4-1 at UW-Whitewater)
No. 50: October 11, 2002 (4-0 vs. IUPUI)
No. 100: September 23, 2007 (3-2 at South Dakota State)
No. 150: September 7, 2012 (2-1 vs. Army)
No. 200: November 4, 2017 (1-0 vs. Cornell)
No. 250: September 13, 2025 (4-1 vs. Heidelberg)
