Ashley Reinecke enters her second year as a Co-Head Coach of the Transylvania women’s soccer team for the 2022 season, and fourth with the program overall. In her first season as Co-Head Coach, Reinecke led the Pioneers to an 8-4-5 record.

After serving as the top assistant on legendary head coach Patrick Farmer’s staff for three years, Reinecke takes over after Farmer’s retirement, alongside Marcus Aldaba, as co-head coaches.

“Ashley Reinecke has proven during her time at Transylvania that she is ready to take the reins of the program. She is passionate about the sport of soccer and about developing student-athletes not only to win championships, but for life”, says Dr. Holly Sheilley, Athletic Director and University Vice President for Athletics.

In her time as an assistant, Reinecke helped lead the Pioneers to a top-3 finish on the Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference table in the pandemic-shortened 2020 season as Transylvania produced a 5-3-1 record against the opposition. As an assistant coach, Reinecke was instrumental in the development of five All-Conference players in 2020-21 including three All-HCAC First Team selections.

Reinecke brings a transcontinental coaching resume spanning multiple college and youth programs to Transylvania. During the 2019 season, her first with the Pioneers, Reinecke helped develop four HCAC All-Conference players, including First Team Selection, freshman Meron Roach. Reinecke helped design a defense which recorded four shutouts during the 2019 campaign.

In the 2021 season, her last as an assistant, the Pioneers went 10-7-2 as Reinecke’s squad had five All-HCAC student-athletes. Senior Abby Baker was named to the First Team, along with three Second Team selections, including first year Abby Dean who had an outstanding debut campaign learning under Reinecke.

A native of Toms River, New Jersey, Reinecke comes north to Lexington after serving as an assistant coach at NCAA Division III Clayton State University in Morrow, Georgia, where she was part of a staff which led the Lakers to three winning seasons and two postseason appearances during her three-year tenure.

Along with her position at Clayton State which elapsed from 2014 through 2017, Reinecke has held leadership and coaching roles in the Triumph Youth Soccer Association of Tucker, Georgia where she served as an Academy Coach and Club Administrator. Having worked in the organization since 2014, Reinecke earned the Georgia Soccer Select Coach of the Year Award in 2016.

Prior to her arrival in the Peach State, Reinecke cultivated her coaching career overseas. While playing professionally for five years for the Keynsham Town Ladies Football Club in Bristol, England, Reinecke also was a youth coach with the Keynsham Town Football Club.

Reinecke’s coaching and playing endeavors in England followed a playing career domestically from 2010 through 2012, during which she played for the New Jersey Wildcats of the United Soccer League’s W-League.

A 2008 graduate of Division I Seton Hall University in Orange, New Jersey, Reinecke started as a midfielder for the Pirates and holds a master’s degree in Brand Design and a bachelor’s degree in Public Relations.

Reinecke holds a USSF D Coaching License.