Dawn Rogers brings a wealth of experience in intercollegiate athletics to her position as Deputy Athletics Director at Baylor University. At Baylor, Rogers provides oversight to the areas of Student-Athlete Excellence and Student-Athlete Health and Wellness. Rogers also leads the areas of strategic planning and initiatives Title IX, inclusivity, gender equity and diversity. She is the sport program administrator for Baylor’s Men’s Basketball, Women’s Tennis and Women’s Golf teams.
Prior to Baylor, Rogers served as the Executive Director and CEO of the 2017 Phoenix Final Four Local Organizing Committee where she was responsible for the overall direction of the 2017 Phoenix Men’s Final Four. The 2017 Phoenix Final Four, hosted in Arizona for the first time, became the second highest attended championship weekend in the tournaments history, generating an economic impact of over $324.5 million. The Phoenix Local Organizing Committee launched a statewide Read to the Final Four Competition open to all third graders across the State of Arizona that saw more than 35,000 contestants read over 6.2 million minutes which was the largest number of participants for any NCAA literacy campaign.Â
Before she was hired by the Phoenix Local Organizing Committee, Rogers spent nine years at Arizona State University as Senior Associate Athletics Director and Senior Women’s Administrator. She came to the Valley from Xavier University in Cincinnati, Ohio, where she served as Athletics Director.Â
Rogers has served on numerous NCAA cabinets and committees with a strong focus on student-athlete welfare. She earned her Master’s Degree in sports management in 1987 from the University of Massachusetts after receiving her bachelor’s degree from Ithaca College, where she graduated cum laude in 1986. She was a collegiate volleyball and track and field student-athlete.She resides in Waco, Texas with her husband, Rob, and two children, Owen and Hazel.
