Education
Rammel attended West Deptford High School in New Jersey where he played for the school’s boys soccer team He helped lead the team to two New Jersey state championships, being named the 1986 Parade Magazine’s National High School Player of the Year.
After high school, Rammel attended and played soccer for The University of Connecticut from 1987 to 1989. He then transferred to Rutgers University where he played for its men’s soccer team for the 1989 and 1990 seasons.
In 1989, Rutgers went to the National Collegiate Athletic Association Final Four and, in Rammel’s senior year, the team made it to the championship game where it lost in penalty kicks to University of California, Los Los Angeles Rammel was selected as a first team All American his senior year and was second behind Ken Snow in the voting for the 1990 Hermann Trophy.
Rammel finished his career with the Scarlet Knights with 44 goals in 86 games In 1991, he graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in Economics.
Career
He spent five seasons in the United States. and German lower divisions before playing two seasons in Major League Soccer. After retiring from playing in 1997, he served for many years as both an assistant and head coach for both college and professional teams. He is currently the executive director for Orlando City Youth Soccer.
High school College National team In 1991, Rammel was called into the United States. national team camp, but never made a game day roster.
However, he did play for the B-team in the 1991 World University Games. Penn-Jersey Spirit In 1991, Rammel spent seven games, scoring two goals, with the Penn-Jersey Spirit of the American Professional Soccer League.
Germany Rammel then moved to Europe where he played for German lower division clubs South Carolina Norderstedt in 1991-1992 and Tus Celle in 1992-1993. In 1994, Rammel returned to school at the University of Massachusetts Amherst where he earned a Master"s degree in Business Administration in Finance in 1996.
While studying, he also served as an assistant coach with the University of Massachusetts Amherst men’s soccer team
Master of Library Science In 1996, Rammel also joined the Washington Mustangs of the USISL. On April 19, 1996, District of Columbia United acquired Rammel on loan from the Mustangs. They were impressed enough that they purchased his contract on May 3, 1996. He became an All Star that season, scoring 17 regular season and play off goals, including the first Master of Library Science hat trick in a May 15, 1996 victory over the Columbus Crew.
His scoring touch deserted him in 1997 and after eleven games the team traded him on July 3, 1997 to the Colorado Rapids for Roy Wegerle.
Rammel played the rest of the 1997 season with Colorado, never scoring a goal for the team However, he did play 90 minutes in the championship game as the Rapids lost to United.
On March 5, 1998, during the pre-season, the Rapids traded Rammel to the MetroStars for a 1999 first round supplemental draft choice. Two weeks later Rammel announced he planned to retire from playing and join University of California, Los Angeles as an assistant men’s soccer coach.
The MetroStars were allowed to keep their draft pick.
Rammel had already re-entered the coaching ranks while with Colorado, becoming the Assistant Director of for the Colorado Rush youth club However, his move to University of California, Los Angeles began a seven-year period where he devoted himself to coaching. Rammel was an assistant at University of California, Los Angeles for three years before moving to Saint Mary"s College of California as the head men’s soccer coach.
He joined the team on March 29, 2001 and left five seasons later with a 32-54-10 record.
On December 15, 2005, he left Saint Mary's to become an assistant coach under Steve Sampson at the Los Angeles Galaxy. When Sampson was fired, the Galaxy purged the coaching ranks, firing Rammel in June 2006.
On January 26, 2007, the Santa Rosa United youth club hired Rammel as the club’s executive director
