Everett Roper was named head softball coach at Saginaw Valley State in August 2007.  In 2009, Roper guided his team to a 39-11 overall record with an 18-4 mark in the GLIAC.  The Cardinals claimed their second-straight GLIAC Championship, eventually falling in the NCAA Division II Super-Regionals to the University of Indianapolis in the third game of their series, a series in which SVSU hosted.

In 2008, he coached the team to a  34-17 record, earning the program's first GLIAC championship since 1990, and  their first berth into the NCAA Division II tournament since 2000.

Roper had been the head softball coach at Thomas More College since March 1997, which was the first year of the program at the varsity level competing in Division III.

Roper built the softball program into a regional power, as the Saints won the Presidents’ Athletic Conference Championship in 2007. In addition, Roper’s teams advanced to the NCAA tournament in three of the last four seasons at Thomas More. The team posted program records with 39 wins and a .780 winning percentage in his final season.

In 2006, Roper was named Presidents’ Athletic Conference "Coach of the Year" after leading the Saints to the PAC regular season championship. Thomas More fell in the PAC championship game in the program’s first season in the conference. Off the field, Roper’s athletes graduated at a 95 percent rate, which included 12 Academic All-Americans.

He graduated from Thomas More College in 1996, with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Communication. Roper also played football for the Saints and holds the single-game sack record at his alma mater. He was elected into the Thomas More Hall of Fame in 2002.

Roper resides in Thomas Township with his wife Anne and their two children, Maya (7) and Micah (4).