Jaime Gordon is in his 18th season as the head volleyball coach at Morehead State. He has led MSU to four Ohio Valley Conference regular-season titles in the last nine years and 10 20-win campaigns in the past 14 seasons.
Gordon has also taken on the role of Director of Athletics, starting that full time position in January 2020 after serving as interim director of athletics. Gordon serves as the director of volleyball for the beach program, helping launch the program in 2017.
In 2019, Gordon became the all-time winningest head coach in Morehead State history in any sport. In 2018 and 2019, the Eagles again reached the 20-win plateau. In 2019, Morehead State made a postseason appearance in the NIVC Tournament.
His program has won eight OVC Team Academic Awards and has won 12 consecutive Team Academic Awards from the American Volleyball Coaches Association. MSU has also achieved eight straight APR public recognitions from the NCAA. The Eagles were also named recipients of the OVC Team Sportsmanship Award for the 2010-11 season.
Gordon guided the Eagles to their fourth straight OVC regular-season title and second NCAA Tournament appearance in 2013. He also reached his milestone 300th career collegiate coaching victory during the season.
He guided the 2012 Eagles a 26-7 overall record and 16-0 OVC mark. It was just the eighth unblemished league record in OVC history. Gordon was named OVC Coach of the Year and AVCA Midwest Region Coach of the Year.
Gordon led the Eagles to a school-record 19 conference wins and the program's first-ever NCAA Tournament berth in 2011.
Gordon made an instant impact in his first year as head coach in 2003. He became the only Eagle mentor to lead Morehead State to an OVC crown in his first season at the helm and boasted the second-best winning percentage of any MSU volleyball first-year head coach.
Capping off the 21-11 campaign and 14-2 school-record league mark, Gordon received the OVC Coach of the Year honor, becoming just the third Morehead State mentor to secure that accolade.
In 2010, he was also named OVC Coach of the Year, leading MSU to an outright regular-season OVC title and a school-record 17-1 league record. He has now coached two of MSU's AVCA All-Americans and six players who have been named all-region.
Numerous players under Gordon have also been named Academic All-District and Academic All-Americans. The Eagles have also been leaders in earning nods on the OVC Commissioner's Honor Roll and being awarded OVC Academic Medals of Honor.
Gordon came to MSU in April 2003 after a successful four-year stint as the top assistant and recruiting coordinator at Kentucky. From 1999-2002, he handled much of the on-court practice and match coaching, coordinated the team's scouting and worked directly with the middle blockers.
He also spent the 1993 and 1994 seasons as a volunteer assistant at UK. The 1993 team was one of the most successful in school history, finishing 29-4 and advancing to the second round of the NCAA Tournament. In his six years with the program, Kentucky collected 90 wins, including 41 in the highly-competitive Southeastern Conference, and was regionally ranked in four of those seasons.
In between his stints with the Wildcats, he coached West Virginia Wesleyan to an 80-27 record. From 1996 to 1998, he helped lead the perennial-powerhouse Bobcats to two conference championships, two NCAA Tournament berths and appearances in the Top 25 rankings.
During his tenure at WVWC, he coached two academic all-district performers, 15 all-conference players and seven all-region performers, plus two conference Players of the Year. His team earned the American Volleyball Coaches Association Team Academic Award, and individually, he was honored as the West Virginia Intercollegiate Athletic Conference Coach of the Year in 1996. He also was the runner-up for regional Coach of the Year honors that same season.
His 1996 team was ranked 19th by the AVCA after posting a 35-6 overall record and 17-0 conference mark. Those 17 wins were part of a victory streak that reached 106 straight, a Division II record. The Bobcats ended up winning their sixth straight West Virginia Intercollegiate Athletic Conference title and advanced to the first round of the NCAA Tournament.
In 1997, Gordon guided the club to a 23-12 record, a seventh consecutive WVIAC title and another berth in the NCAA Tournament. His 1998 team went 22-9 and finished 10-5 in conference play.
While at WVWC, he also served as a physical education instructor and member of the President's Facilities Committee.
In his final two seasons, Gordon served as the conference's executive assistant for volleyball. Those same two years, he was a voter for the AVCA's national Division II poll and an NCAA regional representative, where he was involved in recommending teams, sites and officials to the NCAA Championship Selection Committee.
During the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, he served as a Field of Play Marshall. There, he was in charge of managing and assigning a portion of the competition area and ensuring the safety of the athletes and spectators during matches.
Gordon's first head coaching experience came in 1995 when he led Lexington's Henry Clay High School to the Kentucky state tournament. That team finished 28-6 and was the regional runner-up, as well as the Fayette County regular-season and tournament champion. It was the first state tournament appearance for a Fayette County team.
In 1994, he was an assistant coach at Henry Clay, helping that squad to a 25-6 record, third-place regional finish and Fayette County regular-season and tournament titles. That year, he also was the head coach of the Thoroughbred Volleyball Club 18 & Under team.
A three-time Kentucky graduate, he earned bachelor's degrees in architecture in 1994 and art history in 1996. He also received a master's in sport management in 1996 and has worked toward an MBA. He is a member of the AVCA.
As a player, he spent six years as a member of the nationally-ranked Kentucky men's club team. He served as a three-year team captain and was selected to the 1994 U.S. Olympic Festival Team as an alternate. In addition, Gordon established and served as commissioner of the Ohio Volleyball Conference from 1994-96. He also served as director of operations for Hard Spike, Inc., in Lexington, and has worked numerous camps across the nation.
A two-year high school letterwinner in his native Teaneck, N.J., Gordon was named all-state as a senior.
Gordon and his wife, Ashley, live in Lexington, Ky., with their daughters Sydney and Jamison. Sydney attends the prestigious Craft Academy for Excellence at Morehead State.
