Jodi Risen enters her fourteenth season as an assistant volleyball coach in 2022 at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire.

The Blugolds finished their 2018-2019 season first in the WIAC with a 7-0 record, and a 33-4 record overall. They won the WIAC championship, earning the conference’s automatic bid to the NCAA tournament. The Blugolds continued their success throughout the NCAA regional and Elite Eight, advancing to the Final Four for the first time in school history. Risen also helped the Blugolds to conference titles in 2010 and 2011, along with NCAA appearances in 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2015 and 2018.

Risen joined the UW-Eau Claire volleyball family in 2003 as a Blugold student-athlete. She led the team to a share of the WIAC Conference title in 2006 and to the Sweet Sixteen round of the NCAA tournament in 2005 and 2006. She was named to the WIAC All-Conference team in 2006.

From 2003 to 2009, Risen coached at the 18-and-under level for Eau Claire Air Volleyball Club. She graduated from UW-Eau Claire in 2007 as a Sports Pedagogy major and taught four-year-old kindergarten at Brighter Beginnings Early Learning Center from 2007-2012 before opening her own in-home daycare.

She is married to Matt Risen and the couple has one son (Camdyn) and two daughters (Chloe & Carsyn).

Updated: 9/27/2022