St. Andrews Presbyterian College Director of Athletics Glenn Batten has announced that Rohan Naraine has been named the head coach of the Lady Knights women’s soccer program. Naraine comes to SAPC after spending four years as head coach at NCAA Division I Coastal Carolina University.

“I would like to thank Glen Batten for the opportunity to become the head women's soccer coach at St. Andrews,” said Naraine. “I would also like to thank the president for working with Glenn to get me on board so I can come in right away to start recruiting for the women's soccer program.”

Naraine joins the St. Andrews athletics department after successfully accumulating a 48-29-7 (.613) record at Coastal Carolina University including a school-record 15 wins in 2007. In his four seasons at CCU, Naraine produced a 23-8-2 (.727) league record; captured two Big South Conference Championships (2007, 2008); and made two Big South Conference Tournament finals appearances.

The 2007 Big South Conference Coach of the Year has developed a successful balance of athletics and academics with his student-athletes at Coastal Carolina. Naraine’s squads have earned academic awards (3.0-plus GPA) in every season he has been at the helm of the Chanticleers women’s soccer program.

“St. Andrews is very pleased to have attracted Coach Rohan to St. Andrews with his wealth of experience,” said Batten. “His background at all levels including his success at the DI level and familiarity with Conference Carolinas makes him an ideal match with our women’s soccer program.”

Naraine coached a total of six years in Conway, S.C., having serving as an assistant women’s soccer coach at Coastal Carolina in the 2002 and 2005 seasons. Between his first two stints at CCU, Naraine spent two years as the inaugural head coach of the fledgling Southern University women’s soccer program in Baton Rouge, La.

The Guyana native has nearly 25 years of coaching experience at all levels including high school, collegiate, and international levels. Naraine’s first collegiate head coaching job was at another Conference Carolinas (formally CVAC) member institution, Coker College. Naraine directed the Lady Cobras for four seasons (1998-2001) before taking a shot at the Division I ranks.

After spending most of his youth in England, Naraine came to the United States and attended North Carolina Wesleyan College. The talented futbol player was a team-captain and All-Region honoree, while leading the Battling Bishops to the NCAA Division III National Tournament in 1984. After his playing career came to an end due to injury, Naraine started his remarkable coaching career as an assistant coach with both the men’s and women’s soccer programs at NC Wesleyan.

Coach Naraine will be taking over a Lady Knights soccer program that has averaged seven wins over the past four years (best stretch in school history). Naraine added, “I am excited to start working with the players at St. Andrews to build a program that will challenge for the Conference Carolinas Championship. St. Andrews is a very good academic school with a good athletic program. I met a lot of nice people on my interview and I enjoyed meeting the women's soccer team and working with the players in a practice session which they worked very hard. I am also glad to be a part of the tradition and the values that St. Andrews strives for in the future of the school and its student body. Once again I am honored to become a part of the Knights coaching family, and I thank St. Andrews for the opportunity to become the head women’s soccer coach.”

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