Amir Lugo-Rodriguez - Women's Volleyball Coach

Amir Lugo-Rodriguez

Title:
Assistant Coach
Email:
lugorodr@usc.edu

Amir Lugo-Rodriguez is in his first season (2026) as an assistant coach for the USC women’s volleyball team. He was hired on an interim basis midway through the season on Oct. 7, 2026.

Lugo-Rodriguez previously served as an assistant coach for the Long Beach State men’s volleyball team for the 2026 season and was a coach with the UCLA women’s program for two seasons—2023 as an assistant and 2024 as the associate head coach—where he helped develop All-Americans Cheridyn Leverette and Ana Dodson.

Before arriving at UCLA, Lugo-Rodriguez was an assistant coach at Northwestern for two seasons (2021-22) and arrived in Evanston following two seasons at California (2019-20). At Cal, Lugo-Rodriguez helped the Golden Bears secure their best record since 2011. Prior to joining the coaching ranks, Lugo-Rodriguez served as the director of operations at Long Beach State for the men's volleyball team in 2018 when the 49ers won the Big West regular-season title and captured the 2018 NCAA Championship.

As an athlete, Lugo-Rodriguez has participated in the U.S. National Team Program where he started as a middle blocker for Team USA in the 2017 World University Games. He also earned a preliminary roster spot for the 2015 Pan American Cup and played a season professionally in France's first division.

Lugo-Rodriguez earned a bachelor's degree in consumer affairs from Long Beach State in 2017 and holds a master's degree in sport management from Long Beach State. A standout middle blocker for LBSU, Lugo-Rodriguez earned AVCA All-America first-team honors as a senior and was the 2017 Off the Block National Blocker of the Year and a second-team Volleyball Magazine All-American. He was also a three-time MPSF All-Academic Team member, president of Long Beach State's Student-Athlete Advisory Committee and helped lead the 49ers to two straight NCAA Final Four appearances in 2016 and 2017.

At the club level, Lugo-Rodriguez is the assistant director of SC Rockstar Volleyball club and has served as a club coach since 2013 in the SCVA, NCVA and Great Lakes regions. He also spent multiple years coaching club and as the club director assistant at San Gabriel Elite.