Jim Lodes

Biography

Jim Lodes enters his 21st season as head coach of the RIT women's volleyball program in 2025. The winningest coach in program history (445-284) has enjoyed two tenures as head coach at RIT, first from 1991-95 and from 2010 to the present. Lodes guided his 2021 squad to a 25-5 record, including an unbeaten 7-0 Liberty League record for the first time in program history before receiving an at-large bid to the program's 12th NCAA Division III Tournament. Lodes was named the 2018 American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA) New York Region Coach of the Year after leading the Tigers to a 29-5 record, including the program's first Liberty League Championship. In his first stint at RIT, Lodes led the Tigers to the NCAA Division III National Semifinals and a third-place finish in 1993. Before returning to RIT, Lodes spent four years as the head coach at the University at Buffalo, and was an assistant at D1 North Carolina. He was also the head coach at Lees-McRae College and his alma mater SUNY Brockport. Lodes is 584-505 in his coaching career, spanning all three Divisions and five schools. He graduated from Brockport in 1993 with a bachelor's degree in physical education and sports management.