Boomer Roberts enters his seventh year as head coach of the men's basketball program in the 2024-25 season. Roberts guided PNW to the program's best season with 13 wins, most as an NCAA Division II program.
In 2019-20, Roberts guided PNW to its highest win total in the program's NCAA Division II era and closed the regular season with back-to-back GLIAC wins by a combined margin of 49 points. PNW defeated Lake Superior State on Senior Night, 86-71, and then knocked off Parkside by 34 points in the finale - the largest margin of victory in the program's DII era. Under Roberts' tutelage, Jyrus Freels became the first Pride men's basketball player to earn All-GLIAC honors in 2019-20, followed by Vincent Miszkiewicz who was named to the All-GLIAC First Team in 2020-21.
Roberts became the Pride’s second men’s basketball head coach in May 2018. In his first year with the Pride, Roberts led the Men’s Basketball team to a five-win improvement from the season before.
Prior to PNW, Roberts served as head coach at Trinity International University in Deerfield, Ill., Roberts compiled an 84-48 overall record (.640 win percentage) over four seasons. Roberts engineered the largest three-year turnaround at any level of college basketball from 2014 to 2017, bringing the Trojans from five wins in 2014 to 30 in the 2016-2017 season.
In his last two seasons at TIU, the men’s team posted 51 victories (51-17) more than any other four-year institution in Illinois over the same stretch. In 2016-17, the Trojans shared the Chicagoland Collegiate Athletic Conference (CCAC) regular season title with a conference record of 18-2 and boasted the CCAC Player of the Year in Zach Kirschbaum. Roberts was also named the CCAC Men’s Basketball Co-Coach of the Year that season.
TIU finished the 2016-17 season by advancing to the quarterfinals of the NAIA Division II Men’s Basketball National Championships and ranked No. 7 in the final NAIA Division II Men’s Basketball Coaches’ Top 25 Postseason Poll. The squad also set a new program record for wins in a season and made the deepest postseason run in school history. In addition, the National Christian College Athletic Association (NCCAA) named Roberts the Region Co-Coach of the Year.
Prior to joining the TIU program, Roberts served as the lead assistant coach at Vanguard University in Costa Mesa, California from 2010-14. The Lions won the NAIA Division I Men’s Basketball National Championship in 2014 as well as claiming the regular season and tournament titles of the Golden State Athletic Conference (GSAC). During his time at VU, Roberts recruited and coached four NAIA All-Americans, one GSAC Player of the Year, five all-conference players and 12 NAIA Scholar-Athletes.
Roberts was a former men’s basketball player at Vanguard and served as team captain for two seasons. In 2008, he was awarded VU’s “Male Athlete of Character” award. Roberts has a master’s degree in coaching and athletic administration from Concordia University Irvine (Calif.) and a bachelor’s degree in communications studies from Vanguard.
Roberts and his wife, Brittney, have three sons, Griffin, Trey, and Jett. The family currently resides in Schererville, Ind.
