Chadron State College Athletics

A native of Laramie, Wyo., Aggers played basketball at Chadron State two years after transferring from Mid-Plains Community College at North Platte. After graduating in 1971, Aggers spent 25 years as a college head basketball coach, compiling a 369-360 career record.
He was the head coach at Mid-Plains, College of Great Falls in Montana, Wayne State in Nebraska, Eastern Washington and Loyola Marymount in California. He was the NAIA District 12 Coach of the Year at Great Falls in 1981-82, the NAIA District 11 Coach of the Year at Wayne State in1988-89 and the Big Sky Conference Coach of the Year at Eastern Washington in 1997-98 and 1999-2000. His teams won nine conference championships and made 13 postseason playoff appearances.
Aggers also was an assistant coach at the University of Nebraska-Omaha, University of Wyoming, Pepperdine and Kansas State. He earned all-conference honors and was co-captain of the Chadron State basketball team his senior year in 1969-70, when he averaged 11.7 points. While at CSC, Aggers was president of Sigma Tau Gamma Fraternity and a member of the Student Senate. His wife, the former Frankie O’Donnell of Chicago, was the first woman to be elected president of the CSC Student Senate. Aggers is now the athletic director at West Los Angeles College.