Southern University legendary head baseball coach Roger Cador’s achievements extend beyond his years of building the Jaguars baseball program and turning it into an HBCU powerhouse. Cador will leave his mark on the baseball program with the renaming of the baseball fieldhouse in his honor.
The renaming of the fieldhouse (opened in 2017) to the Cador Baseball Operations Center was approved by the Southern University’s Board of Supervisors.
The official unveiling of the name change will take place at a ceremony on March 26, 2022, the school has announced.
Cador retired at the end of the 2017 baseball season. During his 33 years of coaching, Cador finished with a career record of 913-597-1, a dozen 30-win seasons, 14 Southwestern Athletic Conference (SWAC) championships, 11 NCAA regional appearances, three NCAA regional wins, and two HBCU National Championships in 2003 and 2005. He also coached 10 All-Americans and 62 players drafted by MLB teams.
During his tenure, Cador built the program to what it is today utilizing his connections with Major League Baseball and the local Baton Rouge community to help build both Lee Hines Field Stadium and the baseball fieldhouse.
Cador spent more than 40 years at Southern as a student athlete and as a coach. In the many times we have spoken. Coach Cador openly talks about the compassion of coaching at Southern University and his support for Southern women softball program.
Since his retirement this past January, Cador was inducted into the American Baseball Coaches Association (ABCA) Hall of Fame, as part of the 2021 class, for the contributions he significantly made to the collegiate game of baseball locally, nationally, and internationally.
The legendary coach remains active today supporting HBCU baseball as its ambassador for Southern University, the SWAC, and as a Senior Consultant for Black College Championships alliance overseeing the Black College World Series which is scheduled for May 10-15, in Montgomery, Alabama.