Northwest Notes: April 9, 2026

Eastern announces 

upcoming Hall of Fame Class 

CHENEY — Three Eastern Washington All-America football players and three other individuals will join the 2004 football team as this year's inductees into the Eastern Athletics Hall of Fame. 

The six individuals and team will be honored on Oct. 10 at EWU as part of the 22nd class of inductees.
The football players include quarterback Erik Meyer (2001-2005) and running back turned wide receiver Eric Kimble (2001-2005). 

The pair hooked-up a total of 201 times for 3,169 yards and 35 touchdowns in four seasons, breaking more than a dozen school records each and making their way up Big Sky Conference and NCAA Football Championship Subdivision (formerly I-AA) career listings.
Meyer and Kimble were a part of the 2004 Eagle squad, coached by Paul Wulff, which shared the Big Sky regular season title with Montana and went on to defeat No. 1 ranked and top-seeded Southern Illinois in the first round of the NCAA Football Championship Subdivision Playoffs (then I-AA). 

The Eagles lost their first two games of the season, but won nine of their next 10 to finish the year 9-4 overall and 6-1 in the league.
Meyer and Kimble were both two-time All-Americans, as was running back Jesse Chatman (1998-2001), who rounds out the trio of football players to be inducted. 

Chatman led FCS in rushing with 2,096 yards as a junior in 2001, then elected to skip his senior season to pursue his professional football dreams and eventually played seven seasons in the National Football League.
The other inductees include men's basketball coach Steve Aggers (1995-2000), track and field standout Nancy Kuiper (1990-91) and women's basketball point guard Nancy Sugarman (Taucher), who was at Eastern from 1988-92.
Aggers helped re-build Eastern's basketball program, guiding the Eagles to their first-ever Big Sky regular season title in 2000. 

Kuiper, a four-time Big Sky champion in the shot put and two-time champ in the discus, was Eastern's first-ever female representative at the NCAA Championships, both indoors and outdoors in 1991. 

Taucher earned first team All-Big Sky Conference honors in both 1991 and 1992, finishing her career with 1,105 points and 341 assists while playing all 109 Eastern games from 1989-92, including starts in her last 95 contests.
The induction ceremony will take place on Oct. 10 in conjunction with Eastern's Homecoming football game versus Northern Colorado. 

Time and details for the ceremony will be announced.

Information: www.goeags.com/hof.

Rogers retires as

CSI women's basketball coach

TWIN FALLS — Randy Rogers, who has been the women's basketball coach at College of Southern Idaho in Twin Falls since 2002, announced his retirement earlier this week, the school announced.

Rogers has been at the helm of Golden Eagle Women's Basketball for 24 years. In that time, he accumulated 590 wins and just 187 losses overall and a 298-97 Scenic West Athletic Conference record.
He was named Region 18 Coach of the Year 11 times and District Coach of the Year 12 times.
Under his direction, the Golden Eagles won 12 Region 18 championships and made 12 NJCAA Tournament appearances. His highest finish at the national tournament came in 2004-05, when the Golden Eagles finished as the national runner-up.
Rogers has coached 27 All-Americans and has helped more than 100 players continue on to four-year colleges and universities.
In his final trip to the NJCAA Tournament, he led the Golden Eagles to an Elite Eight appearance, falling to the eventual national champion Eastern Arizona.