Ron Rainey brings over 35 years, both as a head and assistant coach, of college level soccer experience to USFT. 

He has been a head coach at all levels of NCAA Soccer: Division 1 with Ball State, Towson University, the University of Iowa, and Dartmouth College; Division 2 with Wisconsin-Parkside; Division 3 with Albion College.  He has 255 wins as a head coach, notching has 250th win in the 2025 season with Albion.

During his coaching career he has coached numerous all-conference, all-region, and all-american players as well as two future Olympians.  Every team he has coached has received the United Soccer Coaches Team Academic Award for performance in the classroom.

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 “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 and New England.

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.

Him and his wife, Margaret, who played college soccer at the University of Wisconsin, have a son, Wade, and two daughters, Sally and Mary.

Sally spent the 2025 season as a 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.  She currently plays in Serbia for Red Star Belgrade in the Serbian First Division.

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.