Heidi Axtell enters her 16th season as the head coach of the Cortland women’s soccer program in 2019. She has posted a career record of 150-103-38 and is second all-time in wins at Cortland.  

Axtell led the Red Dragons to NCAA Division III tournament "Elite 8" and an 14-6-3 overall record in 2011. That season was Cortland's best campaign since the program won 1992 NCAA Division III title. Cortland tied for fifth nationally and won the SUNYAC regular-season-title for the first time since the conference went to one division in 1995. In 2012, her squad won the SUNYAC tournament crown, advanced to the NCAA Division III "Sweet 16" and finished 12-5-6.

In all, Axtell's teams have reached double-figure wins nine times, most recently in 2018 with an 11-5-2 mark and a second-place SUNYAC tournament finish and in 2017 with a 10-5-3 mark and a tie for third in the SUNYAC tournament. The Red Dragons were 12-5-3 in 2009, 11-6-3 in 2010, 12-6-2 in 2007, 12-9 in 2005 and 10-8-1 in 2006, in addition to the seasons mentioned above. Cortland has finished as SUNYAC tournament runner-up seven times under Axtell's guidance. She was named SUNYAC Coach of the Year in 2007.

Axtell's players have earned 67 All-SUNYAC honors, including one Player of the Year and two Rookie of the Year designations, along with 18 all-region, seven All-ECAC and three All-NYSWCAA awards.

Axtell is a 2002 graduate of Nazareth College, where (as Heidi Brown) she earned her bachelor’s degree in psychology and was a starting center defender for the nationally ranked women’s soccer program. As a senior, she was named a second team All-American and the Empire 8 Player of the Year. A 2010 Nazareth Sports Hall of Fame inductee, she was a two-time all-region and three­-time all-state and all-conference selection. She earned her master’s degree in sports science from the United States Sports Academy in the summer of 2005. She served as an assistant coach for the Red Dragons for one season prior to becoming head coach.

Formerly Heidi Woodcock during her Cortland coaching tenure prior to 2016, Axtell and her husband Steve, the Cortland men’s soccer coach, live in Tully with their daughter, Allie, and Heidi's two daughters, Mari and Kenzie.

Colby Gay became the Lead Assistant Men’s Soccer Coach at SUNY Cortland in the Fall of 2022. As the Lead Assistant, Gay is the recruiting coordinator for the program and performs a variety of other duties within the program including travel coordination, scouting, on-field coaching, academic performance management, and more.

In 2022, he helped lead the Men’s Soccer program to a 13-6-3 record and a SUNYAC Regular Season Championship. The program would go on to reach the NCAA Sweet Sixteen. In 2023, he helped build upon their success in 2022, leading the program to an improved 16-3-3 record, a SUNYAC Regular Season championship, and a SUNYAC Conference Tournament championship. The Men’s Soccer program would go on to another NCAA Sweet Sixteen appearance, after hosting the NCAA First and Second round. Gay, alongside the rest of Cortland Men’s Soccer Staff, was named SUNYAC Conference Staff of the Year, as well as the United Soccer Coaches Region 3 Coaching Staff of the Year.

Gay came to Cortland from the University of Dubuque, where he served as the Assistant Coach from the Summer of 2020 through the Spring of 2022. He was part of the Spartans’ 2020 United Soccer Coaches Division III National Coaching Staff of the Year and the North Region Staff of the Year as the team won the American Rivers Conference title. In the fall of 2021, Dubuque finished 13-4-1 overall and won the American Rivers Conference Regular Season while becoming the first team in American Rivers Conference history to finish 8-0-0 in league play. Gay earned his Masters in Sports Management from the University of Dubuque in 2022.

Gay is a 2020 graduate of Castleton University, where he played soccer for four seasons from 2016-19. He was a captain and four-year starter at midfield, where he registered eight goals and nine assists in 70 games. Castleton won the 2017 North Atlantic Conference title and earned an NCAA tournament berth, losing 1-0 to eventual national champion Messiah in the opening round. Gay was an All-State player at Milton High School, where he served as a team captain and led the league in total goals scored.