Grinnell College Athletics

Rachel Moskowitz ’06 was the classic embodiment of “student-athlete” by excelling both on the pitch as well as the classroom. Moskowitz is the only Grinnell College women’s soccer player to earn a spot on the prestigious CoSIDA Academic All-America Team, collecting first-team honors as a senior in 2005. The forward was also a two-time CoSIDA Academic All-District selection. In a career that paralleled dominance by the Grinnell women’s soccer program, Moskowitz became one of the few soccer athletes in school history to earn All-Midwest Conference honors all four years. A second-teamer as a first-year in 2002, she rose to the elite team in each of her final three seasons. Grinnell won a pair of MWC regular-season titles in that span, two league tournament crowns, and advanced to the NCAA Division III Tournament twice. 

She is listed in the Grinnell record book 41 times and still owns career records for assists with 46, which is also a MWC record, and shots on goal with 126. She is second in shots attempted (319), third in points (140), sixth in match-winning goals (six), seventh in goals (42), and eighth in games played (72). Moskowitz also set the program record for assists in a season with 17 in 2004, while her totals of 12 and 11 in 2005 and 2003 rank fourth and seventh, respectively. She also owns the mark for shots on goal in a season with 48 in 2005. 

After going 9-7 in her first season, the Pioneers rose to 11-6-1 and 12-5-1 in the next two campaigns. They won the MWC regular-season title her sophomore season and the league’s tourney title the following year, which culminated in the program’s second-ever trip to the NCAA Tourney. Moskowitz saved her best for last, guiding the Pioneers to a 14-4-2 record in 2005. They claimed the MWC regular-season and tourney crowns and earned another appearance in the NCAA Tourney. There, Grinnell advanced to the second round for the first and only time in program history. During her time at Grinnell, she won both the G. Lester Duke ’25 Award as a first-year and Grace McIlrath-Parker ’11 Award as a senior. 

Moskowitz played all four years together with her twin sister Kara Moskowitz ’06. Her brother Daniel Moskowitz ’09 is also a Grinnell graduate. Rachel majored in political science and went on to earn her Ph.D. from Northwestern University. She is currently an assistant professor of public policy & law at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, and lives with her wife Ashley and her son Gabriel.