Coach Meyers has been coaching basketball for over 40 years, coaching at every level from 3rd grade through college.
After playing two years of Junior College basketball at Palomar Community College in San Diego, he started his coaching career at his high school alma mater, Mt. Carmel HS in San Diego as an assistant coach. He then finished his playing career at Eastern Oregon State College in La Grande, OR. After finishing his playing career, he coached both the JV Men’s Basketball team and the JV Volleyball team at Eastern Oregon for two years. He then spent the next 32 years teaching and coaching at the high school level. He spent one year at Pilot Rock HS, 13 years at McLoughlin HS in Milton-Freewater, Oregon, and his final 18 years at Sandy HS.
He has coached both men’s and women’s basketball (10 years Head Coach, 29 years overall), women’s volleyball (10 years Head Coach, 20 years overall), and tennis (27 years Head Coach). He also coached Mock Trials (9 years) and Speech and Debate (6 years).
Throughout his career Coach Meyers has taken over struggling programs and built each one of them into competitive championship caliber programs. He has won 6 conference titles, been to over 25 State Tournaments, and had over 50 individual State Qualifiers. As the Head Basketball Coach at McLoughlin HS, he tied the school record for most wins in a season, his volleyball players hold every individual and team record kept at the school, and he was the winningest tennis coach in school history. At Sandy he took the boys basketball program to its first back-to-back double digit win seasons in over 10 years, his volleyball team made it to the State Tournament for the first time in over 30 years, and once again he finished as the winningest boy’s tennis coach in school history. He also took the Mock Trials team to its highest ever State finish (8 th place) and won the school’s first ever Speech and Debate district title in over 60 years of the program and then proceeded to lead them to three straight titles.
After one year at Mt. Hood CC, Coach Meyers came to PCC where he spent 2024-25 as the Assistant Women’s Basketball Coach. Coach Meyers believes that any player that really wants to work and get better has a chance to play and create the opportunity to move on to play at the next level.
Coach Meyers graduated from Eastern Oregon State College with his BS in Physical Education and Health and earned his MS in Educational Leadership from Concordia University in Portland. Coach Meyers has been married to his wife Amy for 35 years. He has four boys Duglas, Kaden, Carsyn and Parker.
