St. Lawrence University Women's Volleyball

Roiger Head Volleyball Coach Shelly Roiger was named the head coach of the St. Lawrence University volleyball team in the spring of 2010 after serving as a volunteer assistant coach in 2009.  She guided the team to the 2010 Liberty League championship, the first in program history.  Roiger, who serves as the Liberty League representative on the NCAA Regional Committee, finished the 2015 campaign with a record of 118-94 at St. Lawrence and holds the Universitys all-time record for volleyball coaching victories. Roiger's team earned AVCA Team Academic honors in 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2014 with a minimum GPA of 3.30, and had eight of their 14 players named to the Dean's List during the 2013-14 academic year and had six Dean's List players from the 2014 roster. In 2015, the Saints overcame an abundance of injuries to finish third in the final Liberty League standings earning a spot in the Liberty League Tournament for the third consecutive year and fifth time since Roiger took over as head coach. Five players earned All-Liberty League honors. The 2014 season was a solid campaign as the Saints won 24 matches, fifth-most in the program's 34-year history.  They earned the highest seed in the conference tournament in University history (No. 2) and had a pair of AVCA All-America Honorable Mention selections in Lexi Brown '16 and Cristina Deschaine 16, who joined Abby Rose '10 as the only three All-Americas in program history, all during Coach Roiger's tenure. The Saints have garnered 20 All-Liberty League honorees including seven First-Team selections. Roiger has also mentored 30 Liberty League All-Academic Team selections. Off the court, Roiger has spearheaded the Power of Pink fund raising effort that, in its sixth year, has raised over $30,000 for cancer research. From 2005-2008, Roiger served as the Head Volleyball Coach at Northland College in northern Wisconsin where she took a volleyball program that had won a total of 10 matches in the three seasons prior to her arrival and turned them into conference tournament champions in just her third season there. Roiger's previous coaching experience was centered in the Midwest where she started her collegiate coaching career at St. Olaf College (2001, 2002) and Carleton College (2003), both located in Northfield, Minnesota.   During these three seasons she served as an assistant coach on coaching staffs that went 64-27 (.703) overall and 26-7 (.787) in the Midwest Intercollegiate Athletic Conference. Roiger is a 1994 graduate of the College of St. Benedict in central Minnesota where she was a three-sport athlete, participating in basketball, cross country and track and field.  At St. Lawrence, she also serves as a Division I Compliance Assistant and is a University Deputy Title IX Officer and Investigator. Shelly resides in Canton, NY with her husband Dan, the women's basketball coach at St. Lawrence, and their three sons Joe, Sam, and Zadok.  Updated 11/28/15