Marc Rodgers - Men's Basketball Coach - Grand Canyon University Athletics

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Marc Rodgers

Title:
Assistant Coach
Years at GCU:
3rd season
Alma Mater:
Central Washington (2018)

Road to GCU
YEAR	SCHOOL	POSITION
2013-18	Central Washington	Student-Athlete
2018-19	Long Beach State	Grad. Asst.
2019-20	Fairfax HS (Calif.)	Head Coach
2020-21	Long Beach State	Asst. Coach
2021-22	Wyoming	Dir. of Recruiting
2022-23	Wyoming	Asst. Coach
2023-pres	GCU	Asst. Coach

Marc Rodgers is in his third season on the Grand Canyon men's basketball staff in 2025-26.

Rodgers' first season on the GCU coaching staff was also the best season in program history. The Lopes won the WAC regular-season title, the WAC Tournament title and appeared in the NCAA tournament. For the first time in program history, GCU won a game in March Madness by defeating fifth-seeded Saint Mary's. The Lopes ended the season as a top-50 team in the NET rankings.

In his second season with the program, GCU was dancing again. The Lopes won three straight games in the WAC Tournament to return to the Big Dance for the third straight time.

Prior to GCU, Rodgers spent the previous two seasons on the staff at Wyoming where the Cowboys made an appearance in the 2022 NCAA Tournament as an at-large bid after a 25-9 season. Originally serving as the program's director of recruiting, Rodgers was promoted to an assistant coach for the 2022-23 season. He was credited with pulling splashy Pac-12 transfers to Laramie in the offseason prior to the 2022-23 season.

The Los Angeles native was previously a Long Beach State assistant coach (2020-21) and graduate assistant (2018-19), as well as a Fairfax High School head coach, club basketball coach and player development coach in Southern California.

"Joining Coach Drew and this staff is truly a blessing," Rodgers said at the time of his hiring. "Being able to join a program that is built on a foundation of faith, character and hard work means everything to me. I'm honored and grateful to be able to join this Lope family."

Rodgers was a standout point guard for Cathedral High School and overcame a junior-year knee injury to be a starter over four seasons at Central Washington spanning 2013-18, where he earned a Sociology degree as a Scholar-Athlete honoree.

"We are excited to add Marc Rodgers to our staff," Drew said at the time of his hiring. "He is a very hard worker that has built many strong relationships on the West Coast, as well as nationally. He will be a great addition to our staff."

His coaching career progressed rapidly since leaving Ellensburg, Washington, in 2018. He immediately moved onto a Division I staff as a graduate assistant for head coach Dan Monson at Long Beach State, where he also landed his first assistant coach position in college two years later.

When Rodgers joined Wyoming in 2021, the Cowboys went 25-9 in his first Cowboys season for their most wins in 70 years. Despite eighth-place predictions in the Mountain West Conference, Wyoming cracked the national top 25 that season and received an at-large NCAA tournament berth.

The following offseason, Rodgers was credited with Wyoming's transfer portal success in landing recruits from USC (Ethan Anderson and Max Agbonkpolo) and UCLA (Jake Kyman) through his Los Angeles basketball connections and relationships.

"Some of Los Angeles' top recruits from a few years ago have landed in Laramie, Wyo.," Mid-Major Madness wrote. "Assistant coach Marc Rodgers went back home and dominated his city."