Cat Rainone

Biography

Cat Rainone has been promoted to Associate Head Coach after serving the past two seasons as an assistant coach with the program to being the 2026 season. The Owls concluded the 2025 season ranked 46th in the nation in ground balls per game (16.94), 50th in caused turnovers per game (8.44), and 35th in save percentage (.450). Goalkeeper Taylor Grollman finished second in the American Athletic Conference with 144 saves. Sabrina Martin ranked fifth in the conference in ground balls per game (2.13), while Kat Bielinski placed fourth with (2.19) ground balls per game. The Owls finished the 2024 season 21st in the country in goals allowed (9.88), sixth in ground balls (20.94 per game), and third in caused turnovers (11.69 per game). Rainone helped Katie Shallow earn the program's first AAC Defensive Player of the Year award, as well as All-AAC First Team honors for Maddie Barber and goalie Taylor Grollman. Shallow and Barber were first and second in the conference and among the nation's leaders in caused turnovers and ground balls, while Grollman finished the season Top 20 nationally in save percentage and goals against average. Rainone came to North Philadelphia after two years at Oregon, where she helped the Ducks to their best scoring defense and most caused turnovers in five seasons in 2022. The Newtown, Pa. native previously spent three seasons at La Salle and was a standout goalkeeper during her playing career at Penn State. She led the Nittany Lions to the NCAA Final Four as