PERSONAL INFORMATION
Twitter: @CoachDani_USD
Year in Coaching: 6th
Year at USD: 1st
Hometown: Downey, CA
EDUCATION
University of Utah (2016)
Bachelor's in Business Marketing
PLAYING EXPERIENCE
University of Utah (2012-2016)
Stjarnan Basketball Club, Iceland (2016-2019)
KR Basketball Club, Iceland (2019-2020)
COACHING EXPERIENCE
San Diego
2021-Current: Assistant Coach
Stjaran Men's Basketball Team, Iceland
2020-21: Assistant Coach
Iceland Women's National Team
2020-21: Assistant Coach for Senior WNT
2019: Assistant Coach for U20 WNT
Youth Coach in Iceland
2016-21
Dani Rodriguez is in her first year with San Diego women’s basketball after being named an assistant coach in August 2021.
Rodriguez joins the Toreros after spending the past five years coaching internationally in Iceland. She became the first woman to coach in the top men’s league as an assistant coach for the Stjarnar men’s basketball team in 2020. In one year as an assistant, she helped lead the team to a second-place finish and a semi-final appearance in the playoffs.
With Stjarnar, she was in charge of post-game analyzing, scouting opponents and in game defensive scouting and practice planning.
Rodriguez served as an assistant with the Iceland National Team system, coaching the Senior Women’s National Team in 2020-21 and the U20 Women’s National Team in 2019. She entered the coaching ranks as a youth coach in 2016, coaching boys and girls between ages five and 20 for five years. Rodriguez helped lead three age groups to the 2021 Stjarnan Girls Icelandic Championship.
Rodriguez played collegiate basketball at Utah as a four-year starting point card. She helped lead the Utes to a 2013 WNIT Runner-Up finish and is fifth all-time in assists with 452. Rodriguez was one of five Division I women’s basketball players named to the Allstate WBCA Good Works Team in 2016.
After her collegiate career, Rodriguez turned pro competing in Iceland from 2016 to 2020.
She graduated from Utah with her degree in Business Marketing in 2016.
