Ryan Hulings

Biography

Ryan Hulings is the Assistant Men's Soccer Coach at Army West Point, serving as the primary goalkeeping coach for the Black Knights in his second season in 2026. He comes from the University of Kentucky, where he spent two seasons overseeing goalkeeper development, recruitment, and game preparation. At Kentucky in 2024, he guided the team to an NCAA Tournament Second Round appearance after defeating both No. 1 Marshall and No. 2 West Virginia, making Kentucky the first NCAA Division I team to knock off both a current No. 1 and No. 2 in the same season. He developed goalkeeper Casper Mols, who was drafted by Atlanta United FC in the 2024 MLS SuperDraft. Previously at UAB (2022), Hulings improved the goalkeeping metrics significantly, and spent four seasons at UMass where he coached the Minutemen to an NCAA Tournament appearance in 2020-21 and helped achieve a 291 consecutive minutes without conceding a goal in 2019. He was awarded the United Soccer Coaches Award of Distinction in 2021. Earlier in his career, Hulings served at Virginia Tech (2016-17) where he guided the Hokies to NCAA Tournament appearances including an Elite Eight berth, and coached Ben Lundgaard, a 2018 first round MLS SuperDraft pick. A goalkeeper himself at Baldwin Wallace, where he graduated in 2014 with a degree in Sports Management, Hulings led the team to the 2011 NCAA Division III Tournament. He also played professionally for the USL's Pittsburgh Riverhounds (2013-15) and the NASL's Tampa Bay Rowdies (