Head women's basketball coach Gene Hill announced the addition of assistant coach Roddreka Rogers to his coaching staff in June 2021.
Rogers, who served as an interim assistant coach at Butler for the 2020-21 season, returns to Atlanta, where she played her collegiate career at Georgia Tech from 2013-16. During her freshman season, Hill was an assistant coach on the Tech staff.
Prior to Butler, she spent the previous two seasons coaching at South Carolina State. Before moving to the sideline, Rogers was a three-year starter at Georgia Tech and also played professionally in Poland.
As a student-athlete, Rogers competed in the ACC for Georgia Tech. A 6-0 forward, Rogers capped off her collegiate career by averaging 10.4 points and 7.7 rebounds per game as a senior. She led the Jackets with 254 rebounds and ranked second on the team with seven double-doubles.
Before attending Georgia Tech, Rogers played two years of high school basketball at Xavier College Prep in Phoenix, Ariz., and one year at Myers Park in Charlotte, N.C. In her senior season at Myers Park, Rogers captained the team and led them to a 31-1 record. She was named 2012 Southwestern 4A Player of the Year by the Charlotte Observer and was selected to the 2012 First Team All-State by the North Carolina Basketball Coaches' Association.
The daughter of Tisa and Rodney Rogers, Roddreka was born in Denver, Colo. Her father was a 12-year NBA vet that played college ball at Wake Forest.
