Women's Softball: Head Coach
| Everett Roper | Everett Roper was named head softball coach at Saginaw Valley State in August 2007. In 2008, he coached the team to a 34-17 record, earning the program's first GLIAC championship since 1990, and their first berth into the NCAA Division II tournament since 2000. Roper had been the head softball coach at Thomas More College since March 1997, which was the first year of the program at the varsity level competing in Division III. Roper built the softball program into a regional power as the Saints won the Presidents’ Athletic Conference in 2007. In addition, Roper’s teams have advanced to the NCAA tournament in two of the last three seasons. The team posted program records with 28 wins and a .718 winning percentage this past season. In 2006, Roper was named Presidents’ Athletic Conference Coach of the Year after leading the Saints to the PAC regular season championship. Thomas More fell in the PAC championship game in the program’s first season in the conference. Roper had led his program to a 134-76 record over the last six seasons. Off the field, Roper’s athletes graduated at a 95 percent rate which included 12 Academic All-Americans. He graduated from Thomas More College with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Communication in 1996. Roper also played football for the Saints and holds the single-game sack record at his alma mater. He was elected into the Thomas More Hall of Fame in 2002. |
