Athletic Staff

Ramineh Abedini

Lifeguard

Cornell University

NCAA DI - FCS • Mountain Pacific Sports Federation | MPSF

How My Coach Inspires Growth And Success"

Date: February 22, 2025

By Other

5.0

Overall

Caring

Motivational

Knowledgeable

Honest

3.0

3.5

Tags

"Working with Coach Ramina was truly transformational. From the start, she was a beacon of positivity, constantly encouraging us to push past our limits while maintaining a calm, focused demeanor. Her coaching style was all about balance—she knew when to push us hard and when to pull back and let us figure things out on our own. It wasn’t just about technique; it was about building mental toughness, and Ramina was a master at that. One of the most memorable stories with her came during a particularly intense training session. We were all exhausted, and the team was feeling demoralized. Ramina gathered us around and shared a story from her own experience, where she had been in a similar situation and fought through the pain. She told us, “This is where growth happens, not when you’re comfortable, but when you think you can’t go any further.” That moment stuck with me, and I remember pushing through that session with a new perspective. The culture she cultivated was one of mutual support. She always emphasized that we were a team first, and that meant lifting each other up when things got tough. Whether it was on the field or off, Ramina made sure that the team was always a family."

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Athletic Staff

Ramineh Abedini

Lifeguard

Cornell University

NCAA DI - FCS • Mountain Pacific Sports Federation | MPSF

Rating For Ramineh Abedini

Date: August 7, 2024

By Other

1.2

Overall

Caring

Motivational

Knowledgeable

Honest

3.0

3.5

Tags

Knowledgeable Motivational Believes In You Easy To Get Along With Positive Person

"I had a bad experience in her supervised pool."

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Women's Softball

Julie Farlow

Women's Softball Head Coach

Cornell University

NCAA DI • Mountain Pacific Sports Federation | MPSF

Worst Coach I’ve Ever Had

Date: May 30, 2024

By Other

1.0

Overall

Caring

Motivational

Knowledgeable

Honest

3.1

3.3

3.1

2.9

Tags

Cool Accessible Direct Intense Old School Mentality

"She is the worst coach I’ve ever seen. If you ever try to talk about softball with her it is clear that she knows nothing about how the game, how to coach mechanics or how to manage a line up. She is unable to change her ways and that is evident in her win loss record. She picks her favorites and no one else will ever see the field or get any kind of chance what so ever. If you want to have an enjoyable experience avoid her at all costs. Cornell softball will never have anything even close to a winning season as long as she is there. "

0

Women's Softball

Julie Farlow

Women's Softball Head Coach

Cornell University

NCAA DI • Mountain Pacific Sports Federation | MPSF

Just Say No (I’d Suggest Any Other School)

Date: May 30, 2024

By Other

1.4

Overall

Caring

Motivational

Knowledgeable

Honest

3.1

3.3

3.1

2.9

Tags

Cool Accessible Direct Intense Old School Mentality

"I’m guessing she puts players on the field based on how much money the player’s family donated, because she clearly makes poor choices. Poor job recruiting (check out their losing record), only likes home run hitters, cares nothing about speed. Makes a bad choice from day one and stands by it for the rest of the season. How this lady is still employed is a mystery. When numerous assistant coaches leave, take note. See newspaper articles too. If you have an injury, hide it or you will never play again. "

0

Women's Softball

Julie Farlow

Women's Softball Head Coach

Cornell University

NCAA DI • Mountain Pacific Sports Federation | MPSF

A Virus To The Ivy League

Date: March 26, 2024

By Other

1.0

Overall

Caring

Motivational

Knowledgeable

Honest

3.1

3.3

3.1

2.9

Tags

Cool Accessible Direct Intense Old School Mentality

"Fear-mongering, inconsistent, outdated, and out of touch with the game. Incredibly disconnected from players and a terrible communicator. Emotionally manipulative and uncaring about injuries. Stubborn and unwilling to make changes. Discourages eating during travel: more concerned with budget. "

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Men's Football

David Archer

Former Men's Football Head Coach

Cornell University

NCAA DI - FCS • Mountain Pacific Sports Federation | MPSF

Program Destoryer, Without A Winning Season In A Decade!

Date: August 3, 2023

By Other

1.0

Overall

Caring

Motivational

Knowledgeable

Honest

4.1

4.3

4.0

3.9

Tags

Accessible Cool Intense Direct Disorganized

"Worst Coach in the country. ZERO winning seasons in 10 years. Cornell obviously hates football and wants to destroy it on the largest level. Why else would you give a guy who keeps breaking your car the keys? Yep, this is a pee-wee football dad coaching in Division 1. He should be sandwich-maker manager at Subway, but he would eat more sandwiches than he makes. Arrogant moron with crap for brains. That's Dave Archer "

3

Men's Crew/Rowing

Todd Kennett

Men's Crew/Rowing Head Coach

Cornell University

NCAA DI • Mountain Pacific Sports Federation | MPSF

Coach Kennett Is A Great Coach And Person. Be On His Team.

Date: June 16, 2023

By Other

4.8

Overall

Caring

Motivational

Knowledgeable

Honest

4.8

5.0

4.5

Tags

Accessible Cool Direct Intense Dedicated To Players

"Coach Kennett is a great recruiter and person overall. When he recruited me he was very open about the team and the goals of the squad. I recommend joining his team if you can. "

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Women's Field Hockey

Andy Smith

Women's Field Hockey Head Coach

Cornell University

NCAA DI - FCS • Mountain Pacific Sports Federation | MPSF

Disappointing Overall Experience

Date: May 16, 2023

By Other

1.6

Overall

Caring

Motivational

Knowledgeable

Honest

4.0

4.2

3.9

4.3

3.7

Tags

Intense Accessible Direct Cool Poor Communication

"Favoritism toward specific player(s) is all encompassing and costs team wins. Is immature, not a good communicator, not trustworthy. Wants to make team better but doesn't know how to do it because he won't listen to anyone but himself. "

2

Women's Facilities

Athletic Staff

Cornell University

NCAA DI • Mountain Pacific Sports Federation | MPSF

Embarrassing, Outdated, Inequitable, And Limited.

Date: February 26, 2023

By Other

1.2

Overall

Cleanliness

Availability

Up To Date

Cool

1.0

2.0

1.0

Tags

Intense Cool Direct Accessible Motivational

"Bartels is embarrassing and has not had improvements to appearance in at least 30 years. Facilities are horribly inequitable. Teams facilities are based upon how much money a team can raise on "Cornell Giving Day" as well as securing other large private donations throughout the year. Equipment availability to diagnose, treat and rehab student athletes is non-existent and/or limited. There is no on site x-ray, no "game ready" machines, no anti-gravity treadmill (except for the one in Barton Hall that belongs to track and field and is collecting dust, but not shared). Most teams don't have athlete lounges, study rooms, and or film rooms. My team shared it's locker room showers with the Ithaca community Zoomba class. Our locker room also continues to have "gang showers". Cornell's solution to updating facilities is to move sports off campus (except for ice hockey, lacrosse and wrestling, of course). NO ATHLETE WANTS TO BE OFF CAMPUS!! When you move us off campus you lose any sense of community. Our friends and other sports teams can't just drop by games to cheer each other on. Please update the sad, inadequate ancient cinderblock facilities (at least paint the blocks for God's sake) and keep us on campus! This is just one of the numerous errors in planning and judgement that Cornell Athletics and the University has made. They never asked the student athletes for their opinion or input and don't care what we think or do! They have failed to do their research into their future donors - typical. "

1

Men's Football

Jared Backus

Men's Football Associate Head Coach / Defensive Coordinator

Cornell University

NCAA DI - FCS • Mountain Pacific Sports Federation | MPSF

Great Motivator, Passionate Coach, Knowledgeable And Intense

Date: January 25, 2023

By Other

5.0

Overall

Caring

Motivational

Knowledgeable

Honest

5.0

Tags

Motivational Dedicated To Players Develops Team Beyond The Field Great Leader Intense

"Known Coach Backus for 29 years. Genuine, direct, caring, intense, passionate, dedicated, develops players, knows his craft, knows how to get the most out of each player, looks out for the player on and off the field. "

0

Men's Football

David Archer

Former Men's Football Head Coach

Cornell University

NCAA DI - FCS • Mountain Pacific Sports Federation | MPSF

Dismal Failure , University Should Go In A Different Direction

Date: July 12, 2022

By Other

1.0

Overall

Caring

Motivational

Knowledgeable

Honest

4.1

4.3

4.0

3.9

Tags

Accessible Cool Intense Direct Disorganized

"David Archer had been an assistant at a div-IIIcollege, and a graduate assistant at Cornell. How do you go from that position to Head Coach? Only at an Ivy! How do you keep that job for as long as he has? What an embarrassment for this once great program."

2

Women's Field Hockey

Andy Smith

Women's Field Hockey Head Coach

University of the Pacific

NCAA DI • Middle Atlantic Conference Commonwealth | MACC

Good

Date: April 30, 2022

By Other

3.0

Overall

Caring

Motivational

Knowledgeable

Honest

4.0

4.2

3.9

4.3

3.7

Tags

Intense Accessible Direct Cool Poor Communication

"He is a good recruiter and loves the game. Doesn’t do a great job of creating an all inclusive team culture where everyone feels valued. Does a good job of supporting players individually when needed. "

2

Cornell University

NCAA DI • Mountain Pacific Sports Federation | MPSF

Loved This Place.

Date: April 22, 2022

By Verified Athlete

5.0

Overall

Team Dynamic

Host Interaction

Coaching Staff Interaction

Coach Player Interaction

Got To Know Team

5.0

Tags

Intense Cool Direct Accessible Motivational

"Loved everything about it."

0

Women's Soccer

Rob Ferguson

Women's Soccer Head Coach

Cornell University

NCAA DI • Mountain Pacific Sports Federation | MPSF

Team First Mentality And Hunger For Improvement

Date: March 4, 2022

By Other

4.8

Overall

Caring

Motivational

Knowledgeable

Honest

5.0

4.0

Tags

Motivational Develops Team Beyond The Field Knows The Game Passionate About Coaching Positive Person

"Coach Rob is a really good person. He cares a lot about his players and is always well intentioned. Although new as a head coach at Cornell, he has already influenced the team culture so positively and is doing so much to improve the program. He has a clear vision and focuses on fitness and possession based play. "

0

Men's Crew/Rowing

Chris Kerber

Men's Crew/Rowing Head Coach / Rowing / Lightweight

Cornell University

NCAA DI • Mountain Pacific Sports Federation | MPSF

This Guy Is A Genius

Date: January 26, 2022

By Other

5.0

Overall

Caring

Motivational

Knowledgeable

Honest

4.8

4.6

5.0

4.6

4.4

Tags

Accessible Cool Direct Intense Believes In You

"Kerber will transform you in and outside of the boathouse. He has an uncanny feel for the sentiment of his squad and how to push them in a respectful way. Animal behind the megaphone. "

0

Men's Football

Mark Ross

Men's Football Head Coach

Misericordia University

NCAA DIII • Ohio Valley Conference | OVC

Date: April 12, 2021

By Verified Athlete

3.8

Overall

Caring

Motivational

Knowledgeable

Honest

3.5

3.6

2.8

3.8

3.9

Tags

Direct Intense Accessible Cool

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0

Men's Football

Mark Ross

Men's Football Head Coach

Misericordia University

NCAA DIII • Ohio Valley Conference | OVC

Date: April 12, 2021

By Verified Athlete

3.8

Overall

Caring

Motivational

Knowledgeable

Honest

3.5

3.6

2.8

3.8

3.9

Tags

Direct Intense Accessible Cool

""

0

Men's Football

Dan Swanstrom

Men's Football Head Coach / Quarterbacks

Ithaca College

NCAA DIII • N/A

Date: March 21, 2021

By Verified Athlete

5.0

Overall

Caring

Motivational

Knowledgeable

Honest

5.0

Tags

Accessible Cool Direct Intense

"My favorite coach. Knows when to be intense and when to be calm and coach. Relit the flame I had for football. "

0

Women's Ice Hockey

Doug Derraugh

Women's Ice Hockey Head Coach

Cornell University

NCAA DI • Great Midwest Athletic Conference | G-MAC

Date: October 19, 2020

By Verified Athlete

5.0

Overall

Caring

Motivational

Knowledgeable

Honest

4.5

4.3

4.5

Tags

Accessible Cool Direct Intense

""

0

Women's Cross Country/Track & Field

Artie Smith

Women's Track & Field Head Coach

Cornell University

NCAA DI • Mountain Pacific Sports Federation | MPSF

Date: October 5, 2020

By Verified Athlete

4.4

Overall

Caring

Motivational

Knowledgeable

Honest

4.2

4.3

4.2

4.3

4.0

Tags

Intense Accessible Cool Direct

"Artie was an excellent coach. He is extremely passionate about the sport and wanted all of the student-athletes that he worked with to succeed in sport and in life. He understood the demands of being a student-athlete and recognized that they were just that: students first, athletes second. Great coach! "

0

Women's Equestrian

Joanna Novakovic

Women's Equestrian Head Coach

Cornell University

NCAA DI • Missouri Valley Football Conference | MVFC

Date: October 4, 2020

By Verified Athlete

4.6

Overall

Caring

Motivational

Knowledgeable

Honest

4.0

3.5

3.0

4.0

4.5

Tags

Cool Direct Intense Accessible

"Coach Jo is the best coach I’ve ever had. She’s quirky, but cares so much and is so dedicated to her team. She can tell who is dedicated and puts more effort into those teammates which some don’t like, but this has carried Cornell to be a winning team consistently. She has a great eye and knows how to grow her riders into their full potential. "

0

Women's Cross Country/Track & Field

Artie Smith

Women's Track & Field Head Coach

Cornell University

NCAA DI • Mountain Pacific Sports Federation | MPSF

Date: October 2, 2020

By Verified Athlete

5.0

Overall

Caring

Motivational

Knowledgeable

Honest

4.2

4.3

4.2

4.3

4.0

Tags

Intense Accessible Cool Direct

"Hands down the best coach I’ve ever had, across any sport. He prioritized my health and school work even more than my athletic performance. Created a great culture. The only people who didn’t like him were partiers who did not make the team a priority. As long as you try hard, he will be your greatest supporter. "

0

Women's Cross Country/Track & Field

Artie Smith

Women's Track & Field Head Coach

Cornell University

NCAA DI • Mountain Pacific Sports Federation | MPSF

Date: October 1, 2020

By Verified Athlete

5.0

Overall

Caring

Motivational

Knowledgeable

Honest

4.2

4.3

4.2

4.3

4.0

Tags

Intense Accessible Cool Direct

"Artie is always there for his athletes both as runners and as people. He cared about each individual on the team and their happiness was more important than their success in the sport. He also was very knowledgeable about distance running and coached me to competing at the highest level. "

0

Men's Football

David Archer

Former Men's Football Head Coach

Cornell University

NCAA DI - FCS • Mountain Pacific Sports Federation | MPSF

Date: October 1, 2020

By Verified Athlete

5.0

Overall

Caring

Motivational

Knowledgeable

Honest

4.1

4.3

4.0

3.9

Tags

Accessible Cool Intense Direct Disorganized

"Great guy, makes a huge effort to understand the players. Definitely the epitome of a "players coach""

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Women's Cross Country/Track & Field

Artie Smith

Women's Track & Field Head Coach

Cornell University

NCAA DI • Mountain Pacific Sports Federation | MPSF

Date: September 30, 2020

By Verified Athlete

4.6

Overall

Caring

Motivational

Knowledgeable

Honest

4.2

4.3

4.2

4.3

4.0

Tags

Intense Accessible Cool Direct

"It was an absolute pleasure to be coached by Artie Smith during my time at Cornell University. From day one he supported my growth not just as an athlete, but as a person. He believed in me and challenged me and helped me develop the skills and confidence necessary to succeed both on and off the track."

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