Gustavo Rocha

Biography

GUSTAVO ROCHA is in his eighth season (2024-25) with the USC beach volleyball program, his second as the Trojans’ associate head coach. He previously served as the team’s assistant coach for six years (2018-23). Rocha helped the Women of Troy capture four consecutive NCAA championships from 2021 to 2024; the program’s fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh national titles. He also helped lead the Trojans to three Pac-12 Championships (2019, ’22, ‘24) and an NCAA runner-up finish in 2019. With Rocha on staff, the Trojans became the first team in the history of the sport to win four straight championships and were the first USC women’s team ever to capture four consecutive national titles. Following USC’s third straight national championship in 2023, Rocha was chosen as the American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA) National Assistant Coach of the Year. Rocha also serves as co-head coach for Team USA’s pair of USC alumnae and All-Americans Sara Hughes and Kelly Cheng (formerly Claes). He helped coach the duo to gold medals at the 2023 World Championship in Tlaxcala, Mexico, and served as the pair’s co-head coach at the 2024 Paris Games where they finished in a fifth-place tie after advancing to the quarterfinal round. In the summer of 2021, Rocha served as the first-ever head coach of the Latvian women’s beach volleyball national team and coached four-time USC All-American Tina Graudina and partner Anastasija Kravcenoka (Samoilova) to a fourth-place finish at the Tokyo Olympic G