Director of Athletics - Tracey Ranieri
Email: RANIERTM@oneonta.edu

Ranieri enters her first full academic year as the Director of Athletics after being named to the position on January 1, 2007.
Ranieri brings extraordinary talent as an administrator and coach having served the college for 17 years in both capacities.  Ranieri began her career at Oneonta as the Assistant Athletic Director, Senior Woman Administrator and Women’s Soccer Coach in 1991.

During her tenure as the Assistant and SWA she brought the NCAA CHAMPS Lifeskills Program to Oneonta and served as the coordinator for 12 years, promoting academic and athletic excellence, community service, personal development and career development for student athletes through year-round workshop.

As the Athletic Department’s Compliance Coordinator she ensured integrity concerning student athlete eligibility issues and created an organizational and historical database that tracks academic and athletic eligibility for NCAA compliance.  Other SUNY schools now use this compliance program.
She has also served as the academic liaison to campus faculty and has worked collaboratively to support the academic needs of student athletes through programming and most recently created a Faculty Mentorship Program that augments the faculty student athlete relationship.

As a graduate of the prestigious NCAA Fellow Program in 2006, she traveled the country to expand her hands on knowledge of facilities development as well.  Her hands in many things, she is known as a tireless self-starter who works cooperatively with all facets of the campus community to support student athletes and promote growth in the athletics program.

As soccer coach, Ranieri built a program that currently maintains the longest conference unbeaten streak (95) in NCAA soccer history, all divisions both men and women.  Her tenure as coach of Oneonta included 14 post-season appearances including 8 straight NCAA appearances from 1999-2006, eight SUNYAC Conference Championships and five Coach of the Year Awards.  In addition, Ranieri was selected as the NSCAA National Coach of the Year in 2003 when Oneonta won the Division III National Championship, the first team national championship in the history of the college.  Ranieri and her husband, David, who served as her associate coach for 15 years, also celebrated numerous academic and athletic all-Americans.

         In 2004 Ranieri received the esteemed SUNY Chancellor’s Award for excellence in professional service.  This award is presented to SUNY employees that have consistently demonstrated superlative performance within and beyond their position.

Ranieri received a BS in 1986 from of Ithaca College, an MS in 1993 from East Stroudsburg and a BS in 1995 from SUNY Binghamton.

In 1999 she was inducted into the NYS Section VI Athletic Hall of Fame and in 2001 she was inducted into the Ithaca College Athletic Hall of Fame.