Rachel Hamryka

Biography

Rachel Hamryka joined the College of Charleston staff in 2023 as an assistant cross country and track and field coach. Hamryka spent the 2022-23 season as a volunteer cross country and distance coach at the University of Georgia. She worked with one all-region men’s cross country athlete and a trio of Distance Dawgs who scored in the steeplechase at the SEC Outdoor Championships, including two that rank in the top 10 in school history. The women’s cross country team earned the highest GPA of any athletics program in Georgia history during her year on the staff. Hamryka enjoyed an outstanding career at Washington and Lee, earning all-conference and all-region honors in 2015 and 2016 and the team MVP award for cross country in 2014. She helped the Generals finish in the top five at the NCAA South/Southeast Region Meet three straight seasons. A two-time team captain, Hamryka was a Scholar-American Award recipient in 2014 and received the Coaches Award in 2017. Hamryka earned her Bachelor of Science degree in biology in 2018 and Master of Science degree in marine biogeochemistry from Georgia in 2022. While in graduate school, she coauthored on three research publications and taught four semesters of an undergraduate organismal biology lab. She is an information warfare officer in the Navy Reserve and is married to William Hamryka.