Farmer was named the head coach of the Rensselaer women's soccer team in May of 2008.
In three seasons at the helm, Farmer has produced a record of 24-38-5. Ten of his players have garnered year-end All-Liberty League recognition, while 47 student-athletes have been named to the conference's All-Academic squad.
Farmer helped guide his Engineers team to a solid 8-7-2 record during the 2011 campaign. The team went 4-3-1 in the Liberty League standings, falling just short of the fourth and final spot in the conference playoffs. Leading the charge for RPI was sophomore defender Brittany Van Grouw, who was an All-ECAC, All-Region and All-Liberty League honoree at season's end.
Farmer, a native of Old Forge, N.Y., was an assistant coach with the University of Wisconsin’s women’s soccer team prior to arriving at Rensselaer. He was the head coach of the University of Pittsburgh-Bradford men’s team in the fall of 2006 before departing to join the Badgers’ staff.
Farmer led Pitt-Bradford to a 7-8-2 mark and was named the Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference Coach of the Year for his efforts in 2006. As head coach, he led the Panthers to the AMCC playoffs for the first time in 30 years.
Prior to arriving at Pitt-Bradford, Farmer was an assistant coach for the Ithaca College men’s team while also heading up the TC United Soccer Club of Ithaca. He helped lead the Ithaca Bombers to a 12-3-2 record in 2004 and a 12-3-1 record in 2005, nabbing two Empire 8 championships.
Farmer spent the 2003 and 2002 seasons as the assistant women’s coach at Penn State, helping the Nittany Lions to two 19-win seasons (38-6-4 overall) and appearances in the 2003 NCAA Final Eight and 2002 Final Four.
From 2000-03, Farmer was a team camp coach at the Lake Placid Soccer Center and in 2000, he spent one year as the head coach of the Keystone Soccer Club of Altoona. Additionally, he was an Olympic Development Program Region I staff member for the Under-19 and Under-17 teams in 2003 and 2004.
Farmer, who played his college soccer at Clarkson University, serves as owner/director/coach of the Central Adirondack Soccer School in Old Forge, which began in 2002. He earned his bachelor’s degree in sport management from Flagler College (Fla.) in 2003, and is just six credits shy of his master’s degree in sports psychology from Ithaca.
