Head Women's Basketball Coach
Roger Hodge

Roger Hodge begins his eighth season at the helm of the Armstrong Atlantic State women’s basketball program. The Lady Pirates continue to experience unprecedented success under Coach Hodge, stringing together five straight wining seasons for the first time in school history, advancing to two NCAA Championships berths, earning two WBCA Top 25 national rankings, knocking off a nationally-ranked team in each of his their seasons while compiling an impressive 118-86 overall record, the best winning percentage in AASU history.

The Pirates set a new school record for three-pointers made in 2006-07, while knocking off a ranked opponent for the seventh straight year with AASU's 74-59 win over Shaw on November 25. Junior Kaneetha Gordon earned WBCA honorable mention All-America honors, AASU's fourth All-American honoree in the last five seasons.

In 2002-03, Hodge put the Lady Pirates on the map regionally and nationally, leading AASU to a 27-4 record, a first-ever PBC Championship, NCAA berth and a WBCA Top 25 national ranking. He also directed NCAA Division II’s best single-season turnaround that season, taking an 11-18 squad that had advanced to the PBC Tournament semifinals and improving on the record by 15 games. He followed up that season with a 23-8 campaign in 2003-04 that included the program’s first NCAA Championships win, then in 2004-05, led AASU to a 17-13 mark.

Coach Hodge led the Lady Pirates to a 10-16 record in his first season - a three-win improvement over the previous season - and also registered the program’s first win over a ranked team in over four years with a 75-72 win over No. 22 Francis Marion on January 3, 2001. In 2001-02, he directed the Lady Pirates to a Peach Belt Conference tournament semifinal appearance, becoming the first No. 6 seed in league tournament history to advance that far.

The sixth AASU women’s basketball coach in school history, Hodge succeeded Lynn Jarrett in 2000-2001 and was hired from Division I Liberty University, where he served as an assistant on the highly successful Flames program.

Hodge entered the collegiate coaching ranks in 1997 with Liberty University, Hodge assisted Lady Flames head coach Rick Reeves on two Big South championship squads in 1997-98 and 1998-99 and assisted head coach Carey Green in 1999-2000 when Liberty went 23-8 and captured the Big South Conference tournament for the fourth straight year.

Prior to Liberty, Hodge was an assistant coach at Mercer Christian Academy in Princeton, W. Va., and helped lead the school to the 1996 Class A state championship. Hodge also assisted at Hinton/Summers County High School from 1987-1994 and 1997, while the school captured three West Virginia Class AA State Championships in 1988, 1992 and 1994. A graduate of Concord College in Athens, W.Va., Hodge received a bachelor of arts degree in 1992. He also received a bachelor’s of science degree in education with a concentration in business principles in 1997. Hodge and his wife, Kristen, have two daughters, Madison and Emmaline, and the family resides in Savannah.