Blake Reynolds enters his fourth season as head women's soccer coach at Fort Hays State in 2021. He is the second coach in the program's history, compiling a 31-19-8 record in his first three seasons in Hays. Adding in eight seasons as a head coach at the NAIA level, Reynolds holds a career record of 133-61-27 over 11 years. He has produced 20 All-MIAA selections and three All-Region honorees in three seasons at FHSU. His winning percentage of .603 at FHSU is the best in program history.
Reynolds led the Tigers to a 10-6-2 record in 2019, while posting a 6-3-2 mark in the MIAA. Six Tigers earned All-MIAA honors, which included three second-team and three honorable mention selections. The team posted a strong showing in the classroom as 19 student-athletes landed on the MIAA Academic Honor Roll, which included Academic All-America performer Darby Hirsch. One of the biggest victories of the season was over a No. 14 ranked Central Oklahoma squad, which snapped their 13-match home unbeaten streak in the process.
Reynolds steered the Tigers to an 11-7-2 record in 2018, tied for the fourth-most wins in a single season in program history. The Tigers finished tied for third in the MIAA standings, compiling an 8-3 mark against conference opponents. The Black and Gold won six-straight matches over the final three weeks of the season, leading the team to the MIAA semifinals for the fifth year in a row. Nine Tigers were honored with All-MIAA status, including a spot on the first team for Vianei Sanchez. Sanchez and Cailey Perkins represented FHSU on the All-Region list. The Tigers also put in the work in the classroom, with 19 players on the roster earning a spot on the MIAA Academic Honor Roll.
His first season at the lead of the Tigers concluded with a 10-6-4 overall record, while going 7-3-1 in the MIAA. FHSU ended its first season under Reynolds by advancing to the conference semifinals were they fell to eventual NCAA DII national champion in Central Missouri. Reynolds guided five Tigers to All-MIAA mentions, with Eden Stoddard taking 1st team honors in addition to multiple All-Region accolades.
Reynolds had great success at Kansas Wesleyan, where he compiled an overall record of 57-16-12 from 2013 to 2016. He guided the Coyotes to Kansas Collegiate Athletic Conference regular season championships three times, including outright titles in his first two seasons and most recently a share of the championship in 2016. The Coyotes were a force in KCAC play, putting together a conference record of 35-2-2 over the four seasons. He led Kansas Wesleyan to a KCAC Tournament Championship in 2015, making a total of four KCAC Championships under Reynolds' guidance. Reynolds was named the NSCAA Regional Coach of the Year in 2015.
Kansas Wesleyan appeared in the NAIA Women's Soccer National Tournament twice under Reynolds in back-to-back seasons of 2015 and 2016. The 2015 squad advanced past the opening round to make the final site of the tournament in Alabama. In his time at KWU, he coached 7 All-America, 10 all-region, and 33 all-conference selections, along with three KCAC Most Valuable Players and three KCAC Newcomers of the Year. He had seven student-athletes earn Daktronics-NAIA Scholar Athlete honors and one earned CoSIDA Academic All-America honors.
Prior to Kansas Wesleyan, Reynolds was head coach at Midland University in Fremont, Nebraska for four years from 2009 to 2012. At Midland he compiled an overall record of 45-26-7 and a Great Plains Athletic Conference mark of 31-10-2, finishing in the top three of the conference standings all four years. In 2009, he led the school to its first-ever NAIA National Tournament appearance, a year that saw his team win 16 matches. He coached over 30 all-conference selections and one All-America selection at Midland. After his four years as coach at Midland, Reynolds served as Director of Soccer Operations at Oglethorpe University in Atlanta, Georgia before taking the head coaching position at Kansas Wesleyan.
Reynolds had three years of assistant coach experience at his alma mater, Baker University (Kan.), prior to his first head coaching job at Midland. He was the men's assistant for two years and the women's for one. In 2008, he helped guide the men's squad to a conference tournament championship and reach the NAIA National Tournament. He started his collegiate coaching career at South Dakota State University in 2006 as an assistant coach, helping SDSU to its first ever championship that season, defeating IUPUI in the title game of the United Soccer Conference Tournament.
A native of Bellevue, Washington, Reynolds graduated from Baker University in 2003 with a degree in psychology. He then obtained a master's degree in sport pedagogy from South Dakota State University in 2009.
In his collegiate playing career at Baker, Reynolds was a standout center-midfielder. He was a three-time All-Heart of America Conference First Team selection and three-time All-Region V selection, while helping Baker win two HAAC conference championships and a region championship, while making two region final appearances. During his senior season, Reynolds helped the Wildcats to their first-ever national tournament appearance and was rewarded as an NAIA & NSCAA Honorable Mention All-America selection. He is also a member of the Baker University Soccer Hall of Fame, named to the school's All-Time Starting 11 Team to commemorate 20 years of rich soccer tradition. Reynolds has accomplished the unique feat of reaching the NAIA National Tournament as a player, an assistant coach and a head coach.
