Rachael Schroeder begins her fifth year as Trinity College Head Women's Soccer Coach in 2023 after finishing the year with a 7-5-7 record that included an 11-match unbeaten streak.  Schroeder led the Bantams to the New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC) Semifinals and to the NCAA Division III Championship Tournament last fall.  Trinity downed Middlebury on the road, 2-1, for its first-post-season victory since 2016 in the NESCAC Quarterfinals and advanced over Geneseo State on penalty kicks (1-1) in the first-ever NCAA Tournament game played on Trinity Soccer Field.  The Bantams closed the year with a 4-0 setback against eventual NCAA Champion, Johns Hopkins in Trinity's third-ever NCAA Second Round appearance, and finished 2022 as the No. 22-ranked team in the nation.

Schroeder had also guided the Bantams to the NESCAC Tournament in 2021, while mentoring NESCAC Rookie of the Year Elena Lindonen and All-NESCAC, CSC Academic All-District and  United Soccer Coaches all-region players Mariana Cournoyer and Gabby Grattan in 2022 and All-NESCAC defender Lexi Hasbrouck two seasons ago. Schroeder posted a 6-7-2 record in her first season in 2019 and coached All-NESCAC midfielder Tricia Pollock that autumn.  Schroeder has a 20-20-10 career mark at Trinity has coached over 40 NESCAC All-Academic honorees in four seasons, including 16 selections in 2022.

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.  She was 27-21-4 at St. Olaf to to give her an overall career record of 47-41-14 in six seasons as a college head coach. 

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 coached 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, Inclusion and Belonging Committee.  She resides in West Hartford with her wife, Kingsley, and their son, Dewey.