Virginia Commonwealth University

A two-time Atlantic 10 Conference Coach of the Year, Rogers is 180-88 in nine seasons at VCU, including 97-26 in league play. In 2021, she logged her 187th victory to become the program's all-time leader. VCU players have earned 37 All-Atlantic 10 citations under her watch. Following the 2014 season, two players, Cecilia Aragao and Janelle Sykes, signed professional contracts in Europe. Rogers has coached her team to a winning record in 22 of the past 23 seasons.

Rogers' VCU tenure has ushered in unprecedented success. The Rams captured three consecutive A-10 regular season championships from 2017-19, as well as the league's Tournament Championship title in 2017. In 2019, VCU fashioned a 24-7 record, including 14-0 in conference play, and received an NCAA at-large bid for the first time in school history. Since the start of the 2017 season, VCU is 54-7 against A-10 foes. 

In 2017, the Rams captured their first Atlantic 10 Conference regular season and tournament titles on the way to the program's first NCAA Tournament appearance since 2005. Along the way, VCU won 27 consecutive matches, the longest win streak in the country that season. The Rams finished their outstanding 2017 campaign with a 30-3 mark, including a perfect 14-0 in the A-10. For her efforts, Rogers was named A-10 Coach of the Year for the first time. Rogers led the Rams back to the A-10 regular season crown in 2018 with a 13-1 mark. 

  

 
"The program has so much potential, and that's the main reason why I came to VCU," says Rogers. "My coaching philosophy is that we go fast, and we have athletic players that can do great things on the court and in the classroom. There's a solid foundation in place, but now we look to operate at an even higher level."

 
Rogers came to VCU following 16 wildly successful seasons at the University of Indianapolis, where she built the Greyhounds into a perennial national power at the Division II level. In 2012, her final season in Indianapolis, she led UIndy to the 2012 Final Four and the program's third 30-plus win season in the past six years.

During her 16 years at UIndy, Rogers compiled a 406-180 (.693) mark, which ranked in the top-30 nationally among Division II coaches for both total wins (26th) and winning percentage (26th). She led the Greyhounds to four straight top-15 finishes and was named the 2012 CaptainU National Coach of the Year, as well as the 2009 AVCA National Coach of the Year. Rogers coached seven AVCA All-Americans during her tenure at UIndy.

A 1993 graduate of Eastern Connecticut State, Rogers had been the women's volleyball coach at Newbury Junior College in Brookline, Mass. She also was the boys' volleyball coach at Waltham (Mass.) H.S., starting a new program in February of 1997. In 1995-96, Rogers was an athletic compliance intern at Boston College, working with BC's 32 varsity sports. Prior to her stint at BC, Rogers was an assistant volleyball coach at Springfield College (Mass.) from 1994-96. In 1993, Rogers was the assistant volleyball coach at her alma mater.

Rogers was a standout volleyball player at Eastern Connecticut from 1991-92.  She earned team MVP honors as a senior in 1992, serving as team captain. She played her first two collegiate seasons at Miami-Dade CC (Fla.), with MDCC's 1989 team winning the junior college national championship.

Rogers earned her bachelor's degree in business administration from Eastern Connecticut in 1993 and her master's in physical education with a concentration in athletic administration in 1997 at Springfield College. She was inducted into the Newton North (Mass.) High School Athletic Hall of Fame in November 2012.