Montana Tech Athletics

Since being hired on February 9, 2012, Brian Solomon has orchestrated a very successful volleyball program at Montana Tech. Entering his 12th season as an Oredigger, Solomon has a career overall record of 273-178 and 164-98 at Montana Tech.

In his tenure, Solomon has produced, 74 Academic All-Conference selections, ten All-Americans, 16 All-Region selections, two Frontier Conference Players of the Year, one Freshman of the Year, three Libero of the Year recipients, 38 all-conference selections, and ten all-freshmen team honorees. Solomon has been named the Frontier Conference Coach of the Year three times while at Montana Tech. He has also received two AVCA All-Region (2012, 2017) awards. The Orediggers have reached the NAIA National Tournament four times under Coach Solomon.

Montana Tech (24-9) won the third Frontier Conference title with Coach Solomon at the helm and appeared in the NAIA National Tournament for the fifth time. The Orediggers finished the season ranked No. 17 in the NAIA Coaches' Top 25 Poll. Solomon earned his fourth Frontier Coach of the Year award and Maureen Jessop was named the Frontier Player of the Year honor, the second student-athlete receiving the honor under Solomon.

In addition to Jessop, the Orediggers had two more first team all-conference selections ion Taylor Henley and Olivia Muir. McKenna Kaelber was selected to the second team and Kinnidi Wilmore was named to the all-freshman team.  

Previously, Solomon was the head coach for the Columbia College Fighting Koalas in South Carolina. In his five seasons at Columbia, he rebuilt the program and turned out three straight winning campaigns from 2009-11. Solomon brought the first ever 20-plus winning season to the Koalas in 2009 with a 24-9 overall record and a third place finish in the Southern States Athletic Conference. In that same year, Solomon received the SSAC Coach of the Year award in addition to nine other SSAC awards. In 2011, Columbia joined the Appalachian Athletic Conference and he achieved another 20-plus win season taking the Koalas to the AAC semi-finals.

Under his coaching, Columbia’s players also achieved accolades. Solomon coached the SSAC Freshman of the Year, the ACC Libero and Setter of the Year as well as many all-conference selections. He has found success with the NAIA’s Champions of Character Awards. In 2009 and 2010, Solomon’s volleyball teams received the Champions of Character Team Sportsmanship Award.
 
Solomon came to Columbia College in July 2007 from Milligan College and Emmanuel Christian Seminary in Johnson City, Tennessee.  He earned his Master of Divinity from Emmanuel Christian Seminary and served as the assistant volleyball coach at NAIA member institution Milligan College for three seasons.

As an undergraduate at Hope International University where he competed as a setter, he led his team to a top ten ranking nationally in NAIA men's volleyball for three seasons and back-to-back NCCAA national championships in 2002 and 2003. He also earned numerous individual awards including NCCAA All-American honors in 2003 and Hope International's Outstanding Male Athlete of the Year in 2004.

 Brian and his wife, Lindsey, live in Butte with their children Cole, Khloe and Logan.