Coach Janzen joined the Howard Payne coaching staff in June of 2021 after serving as the head coach at Allen Community College. 

Originally from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Rachel Janzen spent three seasons (2018-2021) as the head women's basketball coach at Allen Community College in Iola, Kansas. Before becoming the head coach, Janzen served as the assistant women's basketball coach at Allen for four seasons (2014-2018).
 
Before Allen, Janzen was the assistant women's coach at Southern Nazarene University in Bethany, Oklahoma, where the team went 24-10 in 2012-2013, finishing as the 2013 NCCAA National Champions.
 
An alumna of SNU, Janzen earned her Bachelor of Science degree in Physical Education in 2007 while playing collegiate basketball for the Storm. She graduated Magna Cum Laude and was part of SNU's 2004 National Championship women's basketball team.
 
Janzen also had a four-year stint as the assistant women's coach at South Dakota School of Mines and Technology from 2008-2011 and served in the 2011-12 season at Eastern New Mexico University as a graduate assistant coach.
 
Janzen completed a master's degree in sports management from Eastern New Mexico University in 2013.