Rudy Roediger is in his second season as Blinn College men’s soccer assistant coach. He brings approximately 20 years of coaching and scouting experience, including 11 years in the NCAA, NAIA, and NJCAA.

Prior to Blinn, he served as an assistant coach for Oakland University in Rochester, Mich., for one season. In the spring of 2021, Roediger helped the Golden Grizzlies to the most Horizon League wins in program history while producing the program’s first Horizon League Player of the Year and first Missouri Athletic Club Hermann Trophy semifinalist, Noah Jensen. The Golden Grizzlies finished with the No. 1-ranked attacking team in the Horizon League and collected 27 All-Horizon League and national award-winning honors on the field.

Prior to Oakland, Roediger assisted with the start of the men’s soccer program and served as an admissions counselor at Oklahoma Panhandle State University. In its inaugural season (2019-20), OPSU finished fifth in its conference and punched its ticket to the Sooner Athletic Conference Tournament quarterfinals.

Roediger became the only full-time head men’s and women’s soccer coach at Lackawanna College in Scranton, Pa., in 2018. Roediger led the Falcons to set nine program records, including in goals scored, assists, points and lowest goals against average. Roediger recruited a women’s soccer team that posted its best record in six years and a men’s soccer team that featured its first winning season in 2019. Roediger mentored Dominica National Team player Fitz Jolley to earn All-Region XIX honors while also securing the program’s first-ever Eastern Pennsylvania Athletic Conference Division I Men’s Soccer Player of the Year accolade.

Prior to his tenure at Lackawanna, Roediger spent three seasons at the helm of Andrew College in Cuthbert, Ga. Under Roediger, the Fighting Tigers posted a 10-8-0 record in 2015, an eight-win improvement from the previous season, which made Andrew the second most-improved win/loss NJCAA Division I men’s soccer program in the nation that season. During that transformational season, Roediger led the Fighting Tigers to a No. 16 national ranking for the first time since 2005. Roediger moved 25 NJCAA players on to continue their collegiate academic and athletic careers at schools across the country in nearly every association and division.

In 2013-14, Roediger served as the head recruiter and assistant men’s soccer coach at Montreat College (N.C.). He helped the Cavaliers to their first conference runner-up finish in seven years and a four-win improvement over the previous season. For his work with international students off the pitch, Montreat College Admissions Department awarded Roediger its Servant Leadership Award.

In 2012, Roediger helped guide the Bluefield College (Va.) women to the third most-improved win/loss team in the NAIA. The Rams surpassed expectations with the program’s first regular season winning record, its first conference tournament, and an NCCAA Mid-East Regional tournament appearance. In the process, the Rams set single-season team records in wins, conference wins, goals, assists, shutouts, and fewest goals allowed and set records by individual players in single season goals, goals by a true freshman, single season and career assists, fewest goals against, lowest goals against average and most shutouts.

Roediger earned his first collegiate coaching and recruiting opportunity from two-time Presidents Athletic Conference Coach of the Year, Kosmos Mouratidis at Bethany College. Roediger became the 1994 NCAA Division III National Champion’s recruiting assistant, where he helped secure two players, Russell Gaither and Cameron Ward, who would go on to earn All-PAC honors in their freshman season.

In addition to his collegiate coaching career, Roediger spent time coaching in the Antra Lyga, where he became the first American to coach professional soccer in Lithuania in 2017. Roediger served as Vši FK Babrungas’ technical director and head coach in Plunge, Lithuania. While in Plunge, he developed and authored the club’s coaching curriculum and playing philosophy while overseeing the club’s coaching staff. Directly, he led FK Babrungas’ U19 Futsal team to its first ever Baldai Futsal League playoff qualification. Roediger has served as a national team scout for the British Virgin Islands since 2015. In his time working with the BVIFA, Roediger has sent 19 players who have represented the British Virgin Islands in the Concacaf Nations League, Caribbean Cup, U17 World Cup qualifiers and U15 Concacaf Tournaments.

Roediger had a two-year stint as a coach at South Webster High School (Ohio) and spent two years as a coach and athletic director at Piketon High School in Piketon (Ohio). Roediger also has experience coaching club and Olympic Development Program across the country. He has coached over 100 high school, youth, and ODP players who earned NCAA and NAIA scholarships.

A graduate of Indiana Wesleyan University, Roediger was a part of the 1999 team that won the All-Mid-Central Conference Tournament championship before losing in the NAIA regional final. IWU finished fourth at the National Christian College Athletic Association National Tournament.

Roediger holds coaching and scouting licenses from United Soccer Coaches, United States Soccer Federation, and the Football Association of England.