Norm Riker was selected as Wittenberg University women's soccer coach in March 2002, becoming the program's seventh head coach since it became a varsity sport in 1986.

Riker has turned the Tigers into a force in the North Coast Athletic Conference, one of the preeminent women's soccer conferences in all of NCAA Division III. Wittenberg has an outstanding 25-9-5 record in the 2004 and 2005 seasons, including a pair of third-place finishes in the NCAC regular season title chase. The Tigers have been ranked in the top 10 in the Great Lakes Region for most of the last two seasons and even broke into the national top 25 briefly in 2005.

In his first season at the helm, Riker led an injury-depleted team to records of 6-12 overall and 3-5 in the NCAC, which included four nationally ranked teams in 2002. The program made two games' improvement in 2003 and hung tough again with some of the finest teams in the nation. The improvement continued in 2004 when Wittenberg posted an 11-4-5 record, beating nationally ranked Denison on its way to reaching its first-ever NCAC Championship game.

Riker, who was honored with 2004 NCAC Coach of the Year honors, followed that up with a 2005 season that was one of the finest in school history. Wittenberg started the season with eight straight wins and eventually posted a 14-5 overall record. Four of the five losses were to teams that reached the NCAA Division III Tournament, and the Tigers earned victories over three teams that made the national field.

Prior to his arrival at Wittenberg, Riker was the interim head coach of the women’s soccer team at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, N.Y. for the 2000 season, and he also served as the men’s lacrosse assistant coach. During the 2000 season, Riker led Vassar to its second Northeast Regional ECAC Championship. He served as an assistant in both programs from 1994 to 1999 and again in 2001, and he also served as the building manager of Walker Fieldhouse on the Vassar campus.
Riker holds numerous coaching licenses, most notably the National Soccer Coaches Association of America (NSCAA) Premiere Diploma. Other soccer coaching experience includes a United States Soccer Federation B License, and recent soccer playing experience includes participation in the New York Cosmopolitan Soccer League for Germania Football Club from 1996-2002.

Riker joined the Wittenberg men's lacrosse program as an assistant coach in 2003 after a year working as an assistant in the women's lacrosse program. He helped the Tiger women's lacrosse team to an 8-6 record in his only year with that program, including a 5-2 mark in the NCAC, which was good for a program-best third place.

A native of Block Island, R.I., Riker was a four-year lacrosse letterwinner at Springfield College (Mass.) after an outstanding high school career in both soccer and lacrosse. He was a captain of Springfield's lacrosse team as a senior, and he was selected to participate in a pair of senior all-star games. He holds a bachelor of arts in history from Springfield, attained in 1992, and he has since attained a master of professional studies in humanistic education from the State University of New York, New Paltz.

Riker lives in Springfield with his wife, Gabrielle, and their children, Isabelle and Sofia.