The 2021 season marked Joslynn Gallop's 16th as the head coach of the Embry-Riddle women's volleyball team. The third head coach in the 25-year history of volleyball at ERAU, Gallop has charted a 321-161 record in 16Â seasons.
Gallop inherited a team that finished 3-30 in 2004, the worst record in program history. She immediately set about turning the program around and led the Eagles to a 24-12 overall record and a third-place finish in the conference race and league Coach of the Year honors in her first season at the helm.
In 2008, the Blue and Gold won the program's first conference regular season title and that was the start of the Eagles' domination in league play. Beginning in 2009, the Eagles posted five undefeated conference seasons, posting a 63-match winning streak in the process.
Under Gallop's guidance, the Eagles won six Sun Conference regular season and five conference tournament titles, and made five national tournament appearances, including four straight trips to the NAIA National Championship final site in Sioux City, Iowa. Gallop has coached three conference Players of the Year, three Newcomers of the Year, three Liberos of the Year and four Setters of the Year in addition to seven All-Americans and 38 All-Conference selections. She has also been recognized for her coaching success having been named the conference Coach of the Year on five occasions.
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Roberto Rodriguez
Roberto Rodirguez was named ERAU Volleyball's assistant coach in March 2020.
Rodriguez spent the 2019 season as the assistant coach at the University of California San Diego in La Jolla, California. He joined a program that had gone 11-12 the previous year and helped turn things around quickly, as the Tritons went 18-9 last year and earned their first NCAA II Tournament bid since 2015.
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In 2018, Rodriguez served as a volunteer assistant coach at California State University, Los Angeles. In his lone season there, the Golden Eagles improved from 15-12 to 22-6. Working primarily with the middle blockers, Rodriguez helped lift the team’s attack percentage from .182 to .224 and increase the team’s total blocks by nearly 15 percent from the previous season.
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