Roger Rodeheaver - Baseball Coach

Roger Rodeheaver

Title:
Coordinator of Baseball Operations
Email:
rrodeheaver@athletics.msstate.edu
Phone:
662-325-3597

Now in his seventh season as the Director of Baseball Operations at Mississippi State, Roger Rodeheaver has been around college baseball since his time as a student-athlete at Indiana University. His responsibilities include budgeting, schedule coordination, team travel, and oversight of various parts of the day-to-day operation of the program.

His first season at State saw him coordinate the opening of the team spaces inside the new $68 million Dudy Noble Field, working with the construction management group to ensure team spaces were fully operational. He also coordinated all aspects of team travel during the 2019 College World Series season.

In 2021, Rodeheaver was part of a State staff that captured the program’s first national championship after the Dawgs defeated Vanderbilt, 9-0, in the final game of the College World Series. He ran point on coordinating MSU’s second straight trip to Omaha, where the Bulldogs were crowned the 2021 National Champions. Rodeheaver was also instrumental in planning the Diamond Dawgs’ return to the Mississippi Gulf Coast and the home of the Biloxi Shuckers for a two-game series with Texas Tech in 2022.

From 2012-18, Rodeheaver filled various roles for the baseball program at his alma mater. During his seven years on the baseball staff at IU, he spent five seasons as the Director of Baseball Operations and two seasons as the program’s volunteer assistant coach. During his five seasons as the Director of Operations at Indiana, Rodeheaver was responsible for budgeting, scheduling, travel coordination, and video breakdown.

Prior to his operations role, Rodeheaver served as Indiana’s volunteer assistant coach in 2012 and 2013. He worked extensively with the outfielders and served as the first base coach during his time in the position. Rodeheaver also assumed travel coordination duties for the 2013 campaign, the year the Hoosiers advanced to the College World Series.

As a student-athlete at IU, Rodeheaver posted a career batting average of .316 while cranking out 21 home runs, 115 RBI, and 33 doubles. He was drafted in the 36th round by the Philadelphia Phillies in the 1998 Major League Baseball Draft and played three seasons of professional baseball.

Rodeheaver is married to the former Amy Hill, and the couple has one son, Nolan. The Morgantown, West Virginia, native owns bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Indiana University.