Coaches

Rachael Schroeder

Rachael Schroeder will begin her fourth year as Trinity College Head Women's Soccer Coach in 2022 after a 2021 campaign that saw the Bantam squad post a record of 7-8-1 which marks the most wins in a single season during her time at Trinity. In 2021 the Bantams qualified for the NESCAC Tournament for the 13th-consecutive time in program history while Schroeder mentored First Team All-NESCAC defender Lexi Hasbrouck. In 2019, Trinity's victories included 2-1 triumphs against No. 21-ranked Farmingdale State in the season opener, versus No. 11-ranked and 2018 NCAA Champion Williams College, and against No. 23-ranked Wesleyan, while the Bantams posted a scoreless draw on the road against top-ranked and 2018 NCAA Runner-Up Middlebury. Schroeder guided Trinity through the pandemic year of 2020-21 that included practices in the fall and training a few scrimmages in the spring. She coached 2019 All-NESCAC midfielder Tricia Pollock and her Bantam squad has boasted 17 NESCAC All-Academic honorees in Schroeder's two seasons.


Schroeder came to Trinity from St. Olaf where she had taken the reins of a program that had gone 9-21-6 prior to the 2016 season and produced winning seasons in each of her three years including a 10-6-2 mark in 2018. She led the Oles to the MIAC Championship Tournament twice and the program earned a spot in the conference quarterfinals in 2018. In her three seasons, Schroeder coached seven All-MIAC selections and three United Soccer Coaches All-North Region honorees. Her teams also collected the United Soccer Coaches Team Academic Award twice, and three Oles were named to the United Soccer Coaches Scholar All-North/Central Region Teams in Schroeder's three seasons.


Prior to St. Olaf, Schroeder served as an assistant coach at Washington and Lee University for three seasons and Clarkson University for two years, after starting her coaching career as an assistant at Wellesley College. She helped Washington and Lee post a 45-8-3 record from 2013 to 2015, and was a member of the Liberty League Coaching Staff of the Year at Clarkson in 2011. Schroeder currently coaches the Team USA Open women's team, which won a gold medal in 2020 at the Pan American Maccabi Games in Mexico City. She was also St. Olaf's senior woman administrator beginning in the spring of 2016, and created the Ole Leadership Academy for student-athletes in that role.


Schroeder is a graduate of Skidmore College, where she earned a bachelor's degree in business and sociology and was a captain and highly-decorated player for the nationally-ranked Thoroughbreds. An all-conference and all-regional honoree three times each, Schroeder went on to play professionally with the Adirondack Lynx and the Boston Breakers of the Women's Professional Soccer League (WPSL) and in Canada for the London Gryphons. Schroeder also owns a master's degree from Clarkson in business administration and is a member of the Trinity Athletics Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Committee.. She resides in West Hartford with her wife, Kingsley, and their son, Dewey.