YEARS AS THE W HEAD COACH IN 2025-26: 2nd
The Mississippi University for Women's Athletics Department announced Ana Ramos as its new head women’s soccer coach on February 1, 2024. Ramos took over the Owls’ program after most recently serving as the assistant coach at NCAA Division II Eastern New Mexico University.
Ramos also serves as MUW's SAAC co-coordinator.
In her first year at the Owls' helm in 2024, Ramos guided th team to a second-straight St. Louis Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (SLIAC) post-season tournament bid. MUW was 4-12-2 overall and went 3-5 in SLIAC matches. 3 players - Alex Moon (1st team), Kiersten Taylor (1st team), Kimi Norway (3rd team) - earned All-SLIAC accolades. An additional 6 SLIAC All-Academic honors went to Owls' players, as well.
As an invitee to the NCAA’s prestigious Career in Sports Forum in the summer of 2014, becoming The W’s head coach is a culmination, of sorts, of Ramos’ long-established career avocation to coach women’s soccer. The Career in Sports Forum was created to provide student-athletes with a broader scope of the career tracks available within the sports business, with a primary focus on intercollegiate athletics. More than 450,000 student-athletes participate in 23 sports during each academic year, however, only 200 are invited to the forum, annually.
In all, Ramos had a total of nine seasons as an assistant coach under her belt on the collegiate level, the bulk of which has been at NCAA Division III schools. Before serving on staff for NCAA II ENMU in 2023, Ramos was an assistant at both McMurry (Texas) University from 2019-2022 and at the University of the Ozarks (Ark.) from 2015-2018 (both NCAA D3 institutions).
She also served as an adjunct professor while at McMurry.
In addition to obtaining a United States Soccer Federation “F” License in 2015, Ramos has an extensive list of involvement in her sport. She has worked camps for NCAA Division I programs (Oklahoma State, and Texas A&M), served as a regional selection coach for the Olympic Development Program, as well as having been a club coach in Arkansas.
As for her own college career, Ramos competed for four seasons at NCAA III LeTourneau (Texas) University (2011-14), where she earned her bachelor’s degree in business management in May 2015. She was a three-time American Southwest Conference Distinguished Scholar-Athlete Award winner during her time at LETU.
Ramos is a native of Arlington, Texas, and attended Martin High School (2011).
