Emily Ryan | |
Current Title: | Head coach |
Current Team: | Wartburg |
Current Conference: | ARC |
Birth Place: | Dubuque, Iowa |
Alma Mater: | University of Wisconsin–Platteville |
Player Years1: | 2010–2014 |
Player Team1: | Wisconsin–Platteville |
Coach Years1: | 2016 |
Coach Team1: | Wisconsin–Platteville (asst.) |
Coach Years2: | 2017–2020 |
Coach Team2: | Wisconsin–Platteville |
Coach Years3: | 2021–2021 |
Coach Team3: | Dubuque (asst.) |
Coach Years4: | 2022–Present |
Coach Team4: | Wartburg |
Tournament Record: | NCAA: |
Emily Ryan is a former American soccer player and the current head coach at Wartburg College in Waverly, Iowa.[1]
Ryan played 4 seasons for the UW-Platteville women's soccer team, playing in 58 games.[2] In her senior campaign she helped to lead the Pioneers to the WIAC tournament.
On March 25, 2019, Ryan was named the head coach of her alma mater, Wisconsin–Platteville in Platteville, Wisconsin after serving as the interim head coach since the 2017 season.[3] Under Ryan's direction she led the Pioneers to there best season in program history in 2018 with a program high 4th place finish in the WIAC, while shattering four program records. She stepped down in July of 2021 to accept an assistant coaching position at the University of Dubuque and return to her hometown.[4]
On June 22, 2022, Ryan was named the tenth head coach in the history of the Wartburg women's soccer program.[5] In her first season she led the Knights to 16 wins and were ranked as high 6th in USSCA poll. They would go on to finish 2nd place in the ARC and qualify for the programs 10th NCAA tournament appearance as an at-large bid. The season would come to an end in the second round of the NCAA tournament to Wash U and former Wartburg head coach Jim Conlon .[6]