Rory Prager

Biography

RORY PRAGER is in his fourth season (2026) as the Trojans’ associate head coach; his seventh year at USC. Prager served as a USC assistant coach for three seasons (2020-22) and has experience coaching at the international, club, and high school levels. With Prager on staff in 2025, the Trojans were 21-7 overall and finished with an 8-4 mark in the MPSF. USC advanced to the league championship match where it fell to Pepperdine. In 2024, the Trojans went 13-15 in the regular season, finished sixth in the MPSF standings (3-9), and were 13th in the final AVCA Coaches Poll. In the postseason, USC advanced to the MPSF tournament semifinal where it fell to league runner-up UCLA. The Trojans earned six wins over ranked opponents. In the summer of 2023, Prager served as an assistant coach for the USAV U21 Junior National Team and helped lead the team to a silver medal at the Pan Am Cup in Cuba, and an appearance at the World Championships in Bahrain. In 2022, he was an assistant coach for Team USA and helped guide the team to bronze medals at both the Pan Am Cup Final 6 Tournament in Mexico and the Pan Am Volleyball Cup in Canada. Prager is a four-time assistant coach for the National Team Development Program (NTDP) summer, winter, and fall training series. Prager’s Manhattan Beach Surf Volleyball Club claimed bronze medals at the 2021 USA Junior National Championships. Previously, he served as a coach with the Balboa Bay Volleyball Club for three years (2017-19) where he led the 17-2