MADISON, N.J. – Ray Goon has been named the new women's soccer head coach at Drew University, Director of Athletics Christa Racine has announced.
 
Goon, who has won over 200 games as a collegiate head coach, spent the past 29 years as the head women's soccer head at Division I Drexel University, where he built the program from the ground up after the program was reinstated as a varsity sport in 1996. He was selected to the South Jersey Soccer Hall of Fame in 2024.
 
"I am extremely excited to welcome Ray to Drew University," said Racine. "He has dedicated his career to college women's soccer and has coached and played the sport at a very high level. His proven ability to develop student-athletes makes him a great fit to lead our program."
 
"I would like to thank Christa Racine for this opportunity. It is an honor to be selected to lead the women's soccer program at Drew University. After having a long conversation with Christa, I decided to push the pause button on retirement. I am really excited and looking forward to continuing the successful tradition both on and off the field of play."
 
A three-time Coastal Athletic Association (CAA) Coach of the Year, Goon helped guide the Dragons to success at the team and individual level throughout his tenure. In 2022, Drexel finished 11-3-5 and posted the second-longest winning streak to begin a season in CAA history. That team featured the CAA Attacking Player of the Year and Midfielder of the Year, and Goon was named the CAA Co-Coach of the Year, an honor he also captured in both 2012 and 2016.
 
During the 2012 campaign, Drexel posted a 13-3-3 record, including a 6-0-1 mark at home, and finished second in the conference. In 2016, Goon led the Dragons to an appearance in the CAA championship game.
 
Throughout his time at Drexel, Goon coached five CAA Players of the Year and 39 all-conference performers.
 
Prior to his time at Drexel, Goon served as the head women's soccer coach at Thomas Jefferson University (then Philadelphia University) for two seasons. In 1995, he led the Rams to the New York Collegiate Athletic Conference (NYCAC) title and program's first postseason bid with an appearance in the ECAC Championships. His efforts earned him 1995 NYCAC Coach of the Year, NSCAA Division II Regional Coach of the Year, and Philadelphia Oldtimers Association Coach of the Year distinctions.
 
Goon also served as an assistant women's soccer coach at his alma mater, Rutgers University. In addition, he held the post of head men's soccer coach for two seasons at Brookdale (N.J.) Community College and assistant men's soccer coach at the State University of New York at New Paltz. Goon has also served on the coaching staff for the women's New Jersey and Eastern Pennsylvania Olympic Development programs.
 
A graduate of Rutgers University with a degree in economics, Goon was a member of the Scarlet Knights' team that went undefeated during the regular season, advanced to the NCAA Tournament and finished the year with a 17-1-2 mark in 1983. He was the recipient of the Alfred Sasser Award at Rutgers and was an all-state honoree as a senior back. He pursued professional soccer as a member of the Houston Dynamos of the United Soccer League before entering the coaching ranks.
 
A New Jersey native, Goon and his wife, Karen, reside in Mount Laurel.
 
Goon will inherit a women's soccer program at Drew that reached the Landmark Conference Championship tournament for the fourth year in a row last season while finishing 6-9-3 and 3-5-1 in conference play.