Ron Rainey

Position: Head Coach Experience: Sixth Year Alma Mater: Wilkes University, 1992

Ron Rainey enters his sixth season as Head Coach of the Iowa Hawkeyes.

Rainey continued his success at the helm of the women's soccer team during 2010. Under the sixth year hear coach, the Hawkeyes recorded seven consecutive wins, the longest win streak in program history. The team also notched win over Big Ten opponent, Purdue in the final game of the season.

In 2009, Rainey guided the Hawkeyes to an 8-4 record to start the season, the best start in program history. In addition to a recrod-breaking start, coach Rainey and the Hawkeyes posted seven wins at the Iowa Soccer Complex to tie the highest number of wins at home in a single season. Following the 9-11 season, Rainey has recorded 32 wins in his four years at Iowa, the most of any head coach in the program's 13 year history.

The Hawkeye team has shown consistent improvement during his previous three seasons as head coach. Before taking over the Hawkeyes, the team had won a total of nine games in season 2003-2005. During Rainey's first three years the team has won a total of twenty three games. Each season Rainey has been head coach the team has improved its win total from the year before going from six, to eight, to nine wins in 2008.

The Hawkeyes have also advanced to the Big Ten tournament in 2007 and 2008. In the first nine seasons of the Hawkeye program the team had advanced to the Big Ten tournament just three times.

All of this improvement is the beginning as ultimate goals for the team are to play in the NCAA tournament on an annual basis.

Rainey joined the Hawkeyes from Ball State University before the start of the 2006 season, where he served as the school's head coach since the program's inaugural season in 1999. Under his tutelage, the Cardinals posted a 70-52-17 record in seven seasons.

Ball State showed swift improvement under Rainey's guidance, and amassed a 62-25-14 record in his last five years. In 2001, he coached the third-year program to a 12-6-2 mark and was named Mid-American Conference Coach of the Year. In 2005, Rainey guided Ball State to a 15-3-2 record and advanced to the Mid-American Conference Tournament for the fifth-consecutive year.

Before starting the program at Ball State, Rainey served as an assistant coach at the University of Iowa for the first two seasons of the Hawkeye program (1997-98). In Iowa's first year of varsity soccer, Rainey and the Hawkeyes were named the No. 1 first-year program by Soccer Buzz Magazine.

Prior to his stint with Iowa, Rainey was the head women's coach at Towson State University for one year, where his team was 10-7-2 and won the America East Tournament. He has also served as an assistant coach at the University of Cincinnati (1995-96), and head coach and sports information director at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside (1994-1995), where his first year team finished with a 10-6-2 record. Rainey was also the graduate assistant coach at Trenton State College (1992-94).

Outside the collegiate ranks, Rainey has served as a regional staff coach for the Region II Girls Olympic Development Program every summer since 1994. 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 went on to get his Master of Education degree from Trenton State College in 1994.

As a player, Rainey was a two-time captain and team MVP for Wilkes University. In 1990, he was a second team National Soccer Coaches Association of America (NSCAA) all-region pick.

Rainey's wife Margaret earned her Masters degree in education at Iowa and played collegiate soccer at the University of Wisconsin. They have three children: Wade (10), Sally (8) and Mary (6).