Scott Rogers begins his 29th year at Columbia Basin College, entering his 20th year as Athletic Director.
Under his direction, CBC won their first Athletic Director's Cup which measures overall program performance in the 2022-23 season.
He has also overseen numerous facility improvements, primarily to outdoor facilities:
- Athletic Support Building, featuring team locker rooms, restrooms, official’s rooms, and a training room for the soccer, baseball, and softball.
- Installation of a video tower for the soccer facility, followed by a full soccer press box in 2019.
- Development of a facility resurface for soccer.
- Complete reconditioning of the softball facility: new infield surface, new outfield fence, new backstop with wall padding, new press box, new bullpen areas for home and visiting teams.
- Batters eye for baseball, new turf infield, improved bullpen areas for both home and visiting teams.
- Introduction of a new CBC Athletic web site.
- Updated logos and branding to surround the soccer, baseball, and softball facilities.
- New multi-million dollar Student Recreation Center with 3 courts, fitness center, offices and classrooms.
Prior to accepting the position as Athletic Director, Rogers was a tenured faculty member at CBC, teaching Health and Physical Education courses for the college. He also spent his first 11 years at CBC as the Head Baseball Coach.
Inheriting a program that had fallen to an NWAC worst record (7-33, 2-26 East), Rogers made an immediate impact on the baseball field.
Hired in June 1997, Rogers signed 18 incoming players in 21 days, starting 10 freshmen in almost every contest. The 1998 team would not only put CBC back on the baseball map, they completed the single biggest turn-around of any program in the 63 years of NWAC baseball history: plus 22 overall wins to tie the school record for wins in a season (29); plus 19 league wins to set the school record for conference victories (21). The inaugural edition of the new-look Hawks became only the second baseball team in NWAC history to vault from worst to first in one season.
In 1999, Rogers’ Hawks reached the 30 win plateau for the first time in school history, setting East Region records for both overall wins (35) and conference wins (25).
Between 1989 and 2016, CBC was the only college from the East Region to claim an NWAC Baseball Championship. In 2001 and 2006, CBC claimed their only NWAC baseball titles since 1964.
While both teams were comparable on the field, the 2001 edition of CBC baseball reached heights no one thought were possible. CBC became the first school in the history of the Eastern Region to claim four consecutive region championships. Along the way, this team set some records that may never be broken:
- CBC extended the NWAC record by claiming their third consecutive team batting title.
- CBC set an NWAC record with a 1.65 team ERA.
- CBC set an NWAC record by posting 19 shutouts during the season.
- CBC set an NWAC record by starting the season with 21 consecutive wins.
- CBC became just the second NWAC school to claim a batting title and ERA title in the same season.
- CBC set the school record for wins, as well as the NWAC record for wins by the NWAC Champion (39).
- Scott Rogers was named the American Baseball Coaches Association/NWAC Coach of the Year.
In 2002, CBC was honored as the first-ever NWAC baseball program to be nationally ranked when Baseball America ranked CBC 9th in the nation. The 2005 version of CBC baseball had the honor of being only the second NWAC baseball program to be nationally ranked when Baseball America tabbed the Hawks as the 8
th best team in the country.
Rogers retired from coaching after the 2008 season to focus on his duties as Athletic Director.
In the 11 years Rogers directed the baseball program, his teams totaled a 398-139 record for a .741 winning percentage. The Hawks claimed eight East Region Championships, two NWAC Championships, and crossed the 30 win plateau (in a 40 game schedule) nine times. The Hawks crossed the 40 win plateau twice, once in a 40 game schedule (42 wins) and once in a 50 game schedule (45 wins).
Rogers retired as the all-time winningest baseball coach in the history of the program, both in terms of overall wins and winning percentage.
His proudest memory serving as CBC’s baseball coach came as a by-product of their success on the diamond. Between 1998 and 2008, 96 CBC baseball players realized their dream of playing at the next level. Of those 96, 80 players signed and played at Division I or Division II colleges and universities across the country.
In 2014, Rogers came out of retirement as the Interim Head Coach until a replacement could be found. Inheriting a sub-.500 team from 2013, Rogers led the Hawks to a 28-17 record, qualifying for a 12
th NWAC Championship appearance in 12 seasons as a head coach at CBC.
Prior to arriving at CBC, Rogers spent eight seasons as an assistant coach at Gonzaga University.
Scott and his wife Beth have been married for 28 years. They have two daughters, Meghan (24) a 2021 graduate of Gonzaga University and Mia (20) entering her junior year at Gonzaga.
