Rachel (Fulkerson) Lantz joined the IUPUI women's soccer staff in July 2021 and was promoted to Associate Head Coach in May 2024. Lantz, a Brownsburg, Ind.-native, previously served as an assistant at Tennessee Tech in Cookeville, Tenn., and will assist in all facets of the program.
In her lone season at TTU, she helped coach the Golden Eagles goalkeepers and did so in spectacular fashion. TTU yielded just seven goals in 10 games while notching three shutouts and Isabell Austin was named Ohio Valley Conference Goalkeeper of the Year. The Golden Eagles didn't allow more than two goals in any game during the season and Austin accounted for a .892 save percentage. Three Golden Eagles were named All-OVC and two were named to the league's All-Newcomer Team.
Prior to her season in Cookeville, Lantz spent two years on staff at Indiana State. While with the Sycamores, she played a pivotal role in training the club's goalkeeping unit for each of her two seasons. She was also instrumental in planning and leading training sessions, film analysis, organizing all aspects of team travel, recruiting and running all youth and prospective student-athlete camps. In her two seasons, ISU received six All-Missouri Valley Conference honors.
Lantz's Indiana ties run deep as she also spent two years on staff at Rose-Hulman. During her stint with the Fightin' Engineers, the club possessed one of the top defenses in the Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference (HCAC), highlighted by a combined 13 shutouts in her two years with the program.
Lantz played collegiately at Indiana Wesleyan where she was a four-year letterwinner and team captain as a senior. She was part of a squad that was ranked as high as No. 4 in the nation and competed in the NAIA National Tournament. She received her undergraduate degree in 2014 and completed her Masters in Kinesiology and exercise science at Indiana State in 2018.
Rachel and her husband, Eric, were married in June 2022 and reside in Pendleton.
