Raina Harmon

Raina Harmon is in her eighth season as an assistant coach with the University of Iowa women’s basketball team. Harmon works primarily with perimeter players.

THE HARMON FILE
• In Harmon’s seven seasons with the Hawkeyes, she has helped Iowa to a 185-52 overall record and back-to-back National Championship appearances
• Iowa is the first Big Ten team to compete for back-to-back National Championship’s in Big Ten conference history
• The Hawkeyes won a share of the Big Ten regular-season title in 2022 with a 14-4 record, finished second in the Big Ten with an 14-4 conference mark in 2019 and third in 2020 with a 14-4 record
• Helped Iowa to Big Ten Tournament Championships in 2019, 2022, 2023, and 2024
• One of 15 leaders part of the Big Ten Conference’s LGBTQ+ Working Group
• With Harmon on the sidelines, the Hawkeyes have been to the NCAA Tournament five times; 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024
• Kathleen Doyle earned consensus All-America status with nods from Women’s Basketball Coaches Association (WBCA), United States Basketball Writers Association (WSBWA), and Associated Press (AP)
• Guided Doyle (2019 and 2020) to first team All-Big Ten honors as well as 2020 Big Ten Player of the Year

AT CENTRAL MICHIGAN
• Harmon spent five seasons (2012-2017) as an assistant coach at Central Michigan.
• Her primary responsibilities included perimeter player development, academics, and scouting..
• In Harmon’s five years at CMU, the Chippewas registered a combined 99-61 overall record.
• The Detroit native helped guide CMU to a 2017 Mid-American Conference (MAC) Regular Season Championship, 2013 MAC Championship, three MAC West titles (2014, 2016, 2017), an NCAA Tournament berth (2013), and three WNIT appearances.

PRIOR TO CENTRAL MICHIGAN
• Harmon served as the Director of Women’s Basketball Operations at Michigan from 2010-12, where she assisted the coaching staff with all administrative aspects of the program
• Before Michigan, Harmon spent a season as an assistant varsity girls basketball coach at Martin Luther King Jr. Senior High School in Detroit.

AS A STUDENT-ATHLETE
• Harmon played for Central Michigan from 2001-04.
• In 2003, she received the Dee Pommerenk Sportsmanship Award.
• Harmon also served as the president of the student-athlete advisory committee in 2003-04.

PERSONAL
• Harmon earned a bachelor’s degree in sports studies from CMU in 2004
• She earned her master’s degree in sports administration from Wayne State in 2009
• Harmon and her spouse Charita Martin have one son, Ja’Quez.