Roberto Rodriguez joined the Embry-Riddle volleyball program as an assistant coach in the spring of 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.
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.
From 2012 to 2016, Rodriguez was the Head Beach Volleyball Coach at the Universidad del Sagrada Corazon (University of the Sacred Heart) in San Juan, Puerto Rico, where he was voted as the school’s Coach of the Year twice.
In addition to his collegiate coaching experience, Rodriguez was the varsity head coach at Temecula Valley High School in 2017 and 2018. In 2018, he was named Inland Empire Coach of the Year after leading the Golden Bears to a CIF (California Interscholastic Federation) Division I state championship.
Besides coaching, Rodriguez is a decorated beach volleyball player, having represented Puerto Rico in 50 NORCECA (North, Central America and Caribbean Confederation) tournaments between 2008 and 2015, earning medals in 36 of those (7 gold, 13, silver, 16 bronze). He has also played on the AVP Tour for several years, earning four podium results, including a win at the 2018 San Francisco Open. Indoors, Rodriguez played for a number of professional clubs in Switzerland and Puerto Rico between 2009 and 2015.
Rodriguez earned a bachelor’s degree in Exercise Science and Health Promotion with a minor in Marketing from Universidad del Sagrada Corazon in 2012.
He resides in Daytona Beach with his wife Anna, son Nico, and daughter Arianna.
