Lisa Jordan became the first coach in Ryerson Rams women's hockey history on April 1, 2011.  

In her first season, Jordan helped the women record their first-ever OUA conference victory on October 15, when Ryerson recorded a 1-0 shutout win on the road against the Waterloo Warriors.

With a roster consisting of 20 CIS rookies, Jordan helped the youngest team in the country though the hills and valleys of an inaugural university season.  The women finished with a 1-23-2 record.

Before coming to Ryerson, Jordan was the head coach at Saint Mary's University where she amassed one of the best winning records in Canadian women's hockey.

In 14 seasons as head coach of the Saint Mary's women's hockey team, Jordan led the Huskies to eight appearances in the Atlantic University Sport (AUS) finals, capturing the league title in 1998, 2003, 2004 and 2010. She also coached Saint Mary's at four Canadian Interuniversity Sport (CIS) national championship tournaments. A two-time AUS coach of the year and CIS coach of the year in 2003, Jordan guided the Huskies to an impressive record of 118 wins, 52 losses and 11 ties over the last nine seasons.

Jordan was also as an assistant coach with the Canadian national senior women's team that won a silver medal at the 2011 IIHF World Championship in Zurich, Switzerland.

As an assistant coach with Team Canada, Jordan won gold at the 2010 IIHF World Women's Under-18 Championship. She also won gold at the 2007 Four Nations Cup and silver at the 2008 IIHF world championship with the senior women's team. As head coach of Canada's National Women's Under-22 Team in 2005-06, she won a gold medal at the Air Canada Cup.

The Ryerson women's hockey program began competition in September of 2007 in Toronto's Golden Blades Women's Hockey League. The team will make the jump to Ontario University Athletics (OUA) for the 2011-12 season. Ryerson finished first in their division in 2010-11 with an undefeated regular season record of 21-0-3 before capturing the league title.