Omaha Athletics

Honors and Awards
First Team All-Summit League (2016, 2017)
All-Newcomer Team (2016)
Second Team NSCAA All-West Region (2016)
Topdrawersoccer.com Top 100 Freshman (2016)
Third Team College Soccer News All-Freshman (2016)
Summit League Defensive Player of the Week (Sept. 18, 2017)
Summit League Academic Honor Roll (2018, 2019)

2018 (Junior)
Saw action in 15 matches, including 14 starts for Omaha...posted two assists on the season, dishing out one vs. Utah Valley (Sept. 7) and at Western Illinois (Oct. 13)...finished fourth on the team with 1,218 minutes on the pitch...logged a season-best 105 minutes in 2-1 win at Oral Roberts (Oct. 27).

2017 (Sophomore)
Appeared in 19 matches, starting in 17 of them….he tallied the third most minutes on the team with a season total of 1,537 minutes played…Rinderknecht took six shots on the year, two of them coming in their match at FIU on Nov. 16, with one of them being on target...he also logged a season-best 110 minutes and dished out an assist in the game on Nov. 11 against Denver. 

2016 (Freshman)
Earned First Team All-Summit League honors…named to the All-Newcomer team…picked up Topdrawersoccer.com and College Soccer accolades…tallied six points from two goals and two assists…led Omaha in minutes played (1697)…made his first collegiate start vs. San Francisco and played 72 minutes…scored his first collegiate goal vs. Drake on Sept. 2…tallied a goal against IUPUI on Oct. 1…assisted on goals against Eastern Illinois (Oct. 8) and at Bradley (Oct. 18).

Cedar Rapids Prairie High School
Hailing from Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Rinderknecht graduated a semester early from Cedar Rapids Prairie, skipping his senior season to enroll at UNO in the 2016 spring semester…scored eight goals with six assists as a junior for the Prairie Hawks…earned 1st team All-Metro, All-Conference, and All-State honors in 2015 while serving as a team captain and leading Cedar Rapids Prairie to the Iowa State Tournament…during his sophomore season earned 1st Team All-Metro and All-Conference honors…was named the team's most valuable player and was named honorable all-metro and honorable mention all-conference as a freshman…won four straight Iowa State Cup championships playing for CRSA…also was a member of the Region II ODP team and captained the team during its international tour of Costa Rica.

Personal
Born January 25…son of Heath and Sandra Rinderknecht….has one brother, Logan, and one sister Lauren…his brother, Logan, is a member of the men's soccer program at the University of Wisconsin Platteville…plans to major in construction management.