Coach Mike Eineker enters his 18th season as the head coach of the Ramapo women’s basketball team and 20th overall. During his tenure the team has earned five NJAC Tournament appearances and five ECAC Tournament appearances. Entering the 2025-2026 season, Coach Eineker has earned 174 wins at the helm of the Roadrunners and 260 wins in his 22 total seasons in the collegiate coaching ranks.
Following the 2022-2023 season, Jackie Ventricelli was named NJAC Defensive Player of the Year, NJAC First Team All-Conference, All-ECAC First Team after leading the Roadrunners in scoring, steals, made three-pointers and made free throws. The 2023-2024 squad won the ECAC Tournament led by seniors; Jada Thompson, Shannon Burns, Reilly Sheeley, and Ventricelli. Thompson was named the Tournament MVP and All-Tournament Team while Ventricelli was also named to the All-Tournament Team. Ventricelli was once again named NJAC Defensive Player of the Year while Thompson was named NJAC First Team All-Conference.
Before coming to Ramapo, he spent four years at the helm of the women’s program at FDU-Florham, where he led the Devils to a 61-48 overall record. In 2007-2008, Eineker led the Devils to a program-high 18 wins while they set the best win percentage in school history in 2005-2006 with a 17-9 overall record (.654). He led the program to three ECAC Tournament appearances, and two appearances in the Freedom Conference Tournament.
Before his tenure at FDU, Eineker coached boys’ basketball at Boonton High School, from the 2001-2002 season through the 2003-2004 season. In three years, he compiled a 36-31 record. In his first season, he took the team to the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association tournament, somewhere they had not gone for six years. They went again the following year.
Eineker has gained a variety of basketball coaching experience, working at many different levels and institutions. He began his coaching career as an assistant women’s basketball coach at Princeton University for the 1995-1996 season, helping the Tigers to the Women’s National Invitational Tournament. Following his stint at Princeton, he served as an assistant coach with the women’s team at Lafayette College for two seasons, 1996-1998. He helped the Leopards to the Patriot League Championship Game in 1997. His first head coaching job followed, as he took the reins of the Bloomfield College women’s program from 1998-2000. At Bloomfield, he led the Deacons to CACC playoffs both years, winning the first-round game both times. Following that, he took an assistant coaching position with the women’s team at Boston University for the 2000-01 season before moving on to Boonton High School.
Eineker graduated from Montclair State University in 1995. He played one year of basketball at Caldwell College. A Bloomfield High School graduate, he now resides in Clifton, NJ with his wife Amanda and their two sons, Patrick and Declan.
2025-2026 Season
