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Kathy Railey |
Head Coach krailey@stevenson.edu 443-352-4255 |
Record at Stevenson: 34-31, 4
years
Career Record: 98-70, 7 years
With 19 years of women's lacrosse and field hockey coaching experience, Railey begins her 11th year as a head women's lacrosse coach on the college level in 2010, including her fifth at Stevenson where she also serves as an associate athletics director, senior woman's administrator and head field hockey coach.
In 10 seasons at the college level, Railey has totaled a career record of 88-63 and is currently the 24th active winningest coach in Division III with a .583 winning percentage. She is 34-31 in four years with the Mustangs which includes a school record 12 wins in 2008 when the team finished 12-5.
A year ago, Stevenson finished with back-to-back 10-win seasons for the first time since 1998 as the team went 10-7 with wins in seven of its last 10 games. Following a 2-1 start, the Mustangs receiving votes in the IWLCA/Under Armour Division III Weekly Poll for the first time in school history on March 4.
Stevenson finished the 2008 season with seven wins in their last eight games and received the program's first-ever regional ranking when the Mustangs were ranked fifth in the final NCAA South Region poll of the season.
Railey led the Mustangs to six wins in each of her first two seasons after taking over in 2006 following the team's second consecutive one-win season.
In 12 seasons as a head field hockey coach at the collegiate level, including two at Stevenson, Railey has totaled 73 wins. A year ago, she led the Mustangs to a school record 10 wins and an appearance in the semifinals of the CAC Field Hockey Championship after they posted five wins in 2007.
A native of Baltimore and a 1987 graduate of Loch Raven High School, Railey returned to her hometown following six very successful seasons at Eastern Connecticut State University from 2000-05. During that time, she led the Warriors to 64 wins, a Little East Conference championship in 2005 and an ECAC Division III New England Region Championship in 2002.
Railey was named Little East Conference Coach of the Year in 2005 while leading Eastern to the second round of the NCAA Division III Women's Lacrosse Championship before losing to eventual national champion Salisbury. The winningest coach in the history of the women's lacrosse team, she also guided the Warriors to the title game of the ECAC New England Region Championship in 2003 and 2004 as well as the Little East Conference tournament in 2002 and 2003.
Railey led ECSU to a spot in the New England Women's Lacrosse Alliance playoffs in her first season in 2000 before leading the Warriors to a share of the South division regular season title and its first playoff win since 1998.
Railey is also the winningest coach in the history of the field hockey team at Eastern, totaling 39 wins from 2000-05, including a school record 11 wins in 2001. In two seasons at Stevenson, she has totaled 15 wins, including a school record 10 in 2008 where the team advanced to the semifinals of the CAC Field Hockey Championship.
Prior to Eastern Connecticut, Railey was the head field hockey coach at Goucher College for two seasons in 1998 and 1999 after spending three years at Mount Carmel High School as the director of physical education.
During that time, Railey was the head field hockey coach and assistant girls' lacrosse coach at Loch Raven as well where she was a part of two state semifinalists in lacrosse and one in field hockey.
From 1991-93, Railey was an assistant women's lacrosse and field hockey coach for three seasons at McDaniel before serving as the head field hockey coach in 1993 and 1994.
A 1991 graduate of Gettysburg with a bachelor of arts degree in economics, Railey was a four-year letterwinner and team captain in both field hockey and lacrosse for the Bullets from 1987-91. She later received a master's degree in liberal arts with a concentration in physical education from McDaniel in 1993.
Inducted into the US Lacrosse/Greater Baltimore Chapter Hall of Fame in 2007, Railey is a member of the United States Lacrosse Association, Intercollegiate Women's Lacrosse Coaches Association, National Field Hockey Coaches Association and United State Field Hockey Association.
A member of the NCAA Women's Lacrosse Rules Committee since 2005, Railey currently serves as the chairperson for women's lacrosse in the CAC after having served on the NCAA Division III Regional Advisory Committee for both women's lacrosse and field hockey and as a member of the IWLCA All-American Committee for women's lacrosse.









