Keiser University (Fort Lauderdale)
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Date: January 25, 2025
Would Recommend
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I am not a player but my daughter played for coach Roger’s. I have played college volleyball and have coached volleyball at all levels to include college for 30 years. I’ve seen it all. I owned and operated my own club for several years and employed coaches. I will say with all honesty that all of my club coaches were better coaches than coach Rogers and his assistant. Both lied to my daughter and me, and others about their coaching style and what they did for the team. Neither of them coached. Practiced were track practices. When they tried they told them the WRONG things to do. I sat in the stands with amazement and frustration as the girls were not playing defense correctly or even running any version of an offense. My middle school teams ran a faster offense than his college team. NOT a joke. Never ran anything but highs and 1s that were not successful because he didn’t coach his setters , Even freeballs were all high, never ran anything play the whole season. The girls ran a handful of slides (the whole year) that were successful, kills, and then got yelled at. He made his setters set to the ceiling. If you don’t believe me go watch film. When the girls were having issues all they did was threaten them and tell them “they sucked”. “They spent a lot of money on them and they better perform”. Constantly threatening instead of coaching. He told the girls “I don’t coach, if you want coaching you’ve come to the wrong school”. He definitely had a favorite, the only player he would talk to during time outs. He allowed that player to be verbally abusive to the other girls, laughing and encouraging the behavior, many of the girls went on anxiety medicine and started to deal with depression. Come to find out past players dealt with severe depression stemming from them. Definitely did not promote a team environment. Definitely was not a healthy environment. Definitely not leaders you want leading our young women, or men. I would never hire this coach to coach in my club much less college.