Women's Basketball
- Title:
- Assistant Coach
- Phone:
- 719-333-8644
First-year Air Force Women’s Basketball head coach Stacy McIntyre’s coaching roster continues to take shape, as the program announced the return of Rynae Rasley to the Falcon staff on June 27.
No stranger to the nuances of intercollegiate athletics at the Air Force Academy, Rasley served formerly as an assistant of three years under Chris Gobrecht (2016-19), followed by five as the head coach at the Air Force Academy Preparatory School.
“I’m excited to be back on the hill and part of this new journey with our Falcons,” said Rasley. I want to thank Stacy McIntyre for the opportunity to join her staff and the honor to continue coaching some of our country’s finest young women.”
"I’m excited to welcome Rynae back to the Academy and our women’s basketball program,” coach McIntyre said of the newest member of her inaugural staff. “She understands the Academy and our brand of basketball, has experience at multiple levels of our game, and knows many of these cadets that currently play for us. We are fortunate to have her back among us.”
With two former USAFA Prep players from Rasley’s 2022-23 lineup currently rostered (Marissa Hargrave, Jayda McNabb), her influence on a young-yet-hardened 2024-25 Air Force squad was felt felt early and often. In total, Rasley’s four-year stint leading the prep school program produced seven Falcons worthy of a roster spot which accounted for 65 individual starts and left their mark on the Air Force record book – including McNabb’s all-time freshman season in which she finished with the most rebounds in Air force freshman history and top-five in both steals and blocks among similar company.
Rasley’s initial stint under coach Gobrecht represents the beginning of an upward trajectory for Air Force which has led the program into its current, most competitive chapter in nearly two decades of Air Force Division I basketball. In 2017-18, Air Force took its first steps forward, resetting the benchmark with five wins against Mountain West opponents, including a marquis 57-47 victory in Clune Arena over then-first place Wyoming in the Falcons’ home finale (Feb. 27, 2018). Since then, Air Force has not looked back, winning 42 contests against league opponents and finishing ninth or better in six of the previous seven seasons. The Falcons claimed five team records that year, highlighted by a defensive effort which yielded only 62.3 ppg in the regular season and 59.7 ppg against Mountain West opponents, resetting team season bests in both respective categories. Air Force held opponents below 60 points 11 times on the season, testament to the progression of the defense under the coaching staff. Air Force's 2017-18 season also yielded six new individual school records including the program's first-ever Mountain West Freshman of the Year in Kaelin Immel, who set four program records highlighted by the most-ever points scored by a Falcon in the program’s Division I era.
Before her initial stint at the Academy, Rasley served three seasons as an assistant at Nyack College in New York (Division II). While there, she oversaw elements of recruiting, team travel, budgeting, skill development and community outreach for the program, while also developing and executing the Warriors’ strength and conditioning program.
The Falcons’ newest staff addition kicked off her career serving as an assistant coach at The City College of New York in West Harlem. There, she was responsible for player skill development, strength training, scheduling, and recruiting.
Rasley began her college basketball career at Chandler-Gilbert Community College (Chandler, Ariz.). Rasley led CGCC to back-to-back Regional One Division II championships as the Coyotes ranked 7th and 13th, respectively, in the nation throughout her junior college career.
Rasley transferred to City College in 2008 and concluded her playing career after averaging a double-double. She was also a competitor on the outdoor track & field teams and was named a CUNYAC all-star in 2011. Rasley wrapped her City College playing career earning a Bachelor of Arts there in 2011, followed by the completion of an M.S. in Organizational Leadership at Nyack College in 2015.
