Alvis Rogers
Director of Basketball Operations
First Season
(Wake Forest, 1991)

    Alvis Rogers enters his first season as YSU’s Director of Men’s Basketball operations after spending three years as an assistant coach on the women’s staff.
    In his Director of Operations role, Rogers handles tape exchange, team travel itineraries and other daily office duties.
    During his three seasons with the women, Rogers worked primarily with the post players. In two of his three campaigns, a Penguins’ interior player ranked in the top three in the Horizon League in rebounding.
    Rogers has spent 10 years as a collegiate women’s assistant coach and was also a high school boys head coach.
    A native of Washington, N.C., he served as the boys’ basketball head coach at Seton LaSalle High School in Pittsburgh, Pa., before coming to Youngstown.
    In 2002-03, he was an assistant coach at Pittsburgh, working primarily with the post players.
    Before joining the Panthers, Rogers spent six seasons (1996-2002) at Duquesne, where he was responsible for recruiting, game preparation, scouting, film editing and coaching both the guards and post players. He assisted in developing two-time Atlantic-10 Player of the Year, Korie Hlede and coached Co-Atlantic-10 Player of the Year Candace Futrell. Both were drafted into the WNBA.
    Rogers’ intercollegiate coaching career began in 1993-94 as an assistant coach at Shaw University.
    Prior to entering the coaching profession, Rogers had a successful playing career on both the collegiate and pro levels.
    In his career with the Demon Deacons, Rogers scored 1,441 points (12.6 per contest) and grabbed 656 rebounds (5.8 per game). He spent five years in the program redshirting in 1981-82. He scored at least 300 points in his four full seasons, including a high of 401 as a sophomore. He lead Wake in scoring that year averaging 15.4 per contest. He participated in two NCAA Tournaments and one NIT, winning 20-or-more games three times.
    In 114 career games played , he made 570-of-1,168 field goals (48.8 percent) and 301-of-413 free throws (72.9 percent). He also had 168 assists, 135 steals and 23 blockes shots during his career.
    Following his collegiate career, he was a sixth-round selection by the Kansas City Kings in the 1983 NBA Draft. He eventually took his talents outside the U.S. playing professionally in Australia, Sweden, Greece, Belgium and Ireland between 1984-1988.
    Alvis and his wife, Dr. Cheryl Sandora, reside in Pittsburgh with their son, Ricky.