Michelle Rick was named head coach of the RMU women's soccer program on February 8, 2024. She enters her second year with the program in 2025.
In her first season with the Colonials, Rick led the team back to the Horizon League semifinals. Under her leadership, the program earned their most All-League selections as Haleigh Finale, Paloma Swankler and Ava Trethewey were named All-League Second Team. In addition, Madison Hurst was tabbed to the All-Freshman Team.
Academically, six of her student-athletes earned a spot on the College Sports Communicators Academic All-District teams and two players were named to the Horizon League All-Academic Team with goalkeeper Brenna Murray also earning the conference's Sportsmanship Award.
Rick joined RMU after spending the previous two seasons at the University of Findlay, a Division II school in Findlay, Ohio, where she had a 22-11-7 overall record and back-to-back berths in the Great Midwest Athletic Conference Tournament semifinals. She coached five all-conference players a total of eight times, including the 2023 G-MAC Goalkeeper of the Year Kennedy Slovak and 2022 Elite 26 Award Winner Nikki Schuster. Additionally, two of Rick’s players earned a spot on the D2 Conference Commissioners Association Soccer All-Midwest Region teams in Hannah Rybicki (2023) and Ellie Tischler (2022).
Academically, 10 of Rick’s student-athletes earned a spot on the College Sports Communicators Academic All-District® teams a total of 12 times.
Prior to Findlay, Rick got her start in college soccer as an assistant coach at Marietta College where she was heavily involved in all aspects of the program - including match and training planning, recruiting and fund raising. She was instrumental in recruiting and developing six All-Ohio Athletic Conference selections in her three seasons with the Pioneers.
Before moving to the college ranks, Rick served as the head coach of the Ohio Galaxies Futbol Club in Dayton, Ohio and was the assistant varsity coach and the head junior varsity coach at Beavercreek High School. She was on the coaching staff when Beavercreek won the 2018 Division I women’s Ohio High School Athletic Association (OHSAA) State Championship.
A native of Beavercreek, Ohio, Rick played collegiately at Wright State where she graduated with a bachelor's degree in biological sciences in 2015. She earned her master’s in education with a concentration in adolescent and young adult education in life sciences from the University of Dayton in 2019.
