Jason Madsen was named the College of Staten Island Head Men's & Women's Volleyball Coach in August of 2016. He is coming to the College by way of Rutgers University – Newark where he was an assistant for the men's program since 2012 while serving as head coach of the women's unit from 2012-15. He is the first full-time hire at CSI in this capacity in the program's history and he will double as a Facilities Supervisor at the campus' Sports & Recreation Center.
Madsen is eagerly anticipating a fresh start, having recently wrapped up a summer circuit working volleyball youth camps in his native New Jersey area. Madsen has experience working with a developing program when he took over the women's unit for Rutgers' Division III Newark campus. There, he took over an 8-19 unit in 2011 and went 15-13 the following season. In 2014, the Scarlet Raiders advanced to the ECAC Metro Semifinals, earning its first ECAC Tournament win in 13 seasons.
Alongside his duties with the women's unit Madsen was an assistant and top recruiter for the RU-Newark men's unit, one that ranked No. 6 nationally by the American Volleyball Coaches Association and advanced to the NCAA Division III National Championship Quarterfinals in 2015 & 2016. Madsen hopes to use some of the tools inherited in Newark on the College of Staten Island's developing program.
In addition to his collegiate coaching experience, Madsen has also spent the last three years coaching a girls' club team with the Warren Sixpack Volleyball Club of NJ. His experience as a recruiter and on the club circuit has helped his develop many contacts in the men's and women's game throughout the tri-state area, and the recruiting has helped him attract players who lend themselves to the type of volleyball he expects his teams to play.
