North Central College Cardinals

Rachel Gray joined the North Central College coaching staff in fall 2024 as the head coach of the Cardinals' men's and women's golf programs.

In her inaugural season with the Cardinals, Gray guided the men's and women's programs to multiple record-breaking performances along with a third-place College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin (CCIW) Tournament finish for the women's program and a fifth-place showing on the men's side. She coached Alex Meinhart (women's golf) and Mitchell Mazzei (men's golf) to All-CCIW honors, with Mazzei also making history as the program's first-ever NCAA Division III Golf Coaches Association of America (GCAA) PING All-Region V selection.

A two-time individual national championship qualifier as a collegiate student-athlete, Gray brings coaching experience from each of the NCAA's three divisions to a pair of North Central teams which established new scoring records during the 2023-2024 season. 

Gray most recently served as an assistant coach for the Northern Illinois University men's golf program (2022-2023), during which time the Huskies had multiple First Team All-Mid-American Conference (MAC) honorees for the first time and set a new 18-hole scoring record. Gray was the head men's and women's coach at the College of Saint Scholastica from 2019-2022, leading the women's program to back-to-back Upper Midwest Athletic Conference (UMAC) championships and an appearance in the NCAA Division III National Championship in 2021.  

A native of Coon Rapids, Minnesota, Gray got started in coaching as a graduate assistant at Lenoir-Rhyne University (North Carolina), helping lead the women's team to a South Atlantic Conference Championship. As a competitor for the women's golf team at Concordia University-St. Paul from 2012 to 2016, Gray earned All-Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference (NSIC) honors three times and qualified as an individual for the 2015 and 2016 NCAA Division II National Championships. Gray graduated as Concordia's all-time leader in career scoring average (80.22), single-season scoring average (77.65), and low scores for rounds of 18 (69), 36 (144), 54 (223) and 72 holes (299).