BOWLING GREEN, OH (PRESS RELEASE) - Bowling Green State University Director of Athletics Greg Christopher has announced that Jennifer Roos is the new head coach of the Falcon women's basketball program. Roos assumes the head-coaching job after 11 years as an assistant coach on the BG staff, the last eight as the associate head coach.
"I am thrilled Jennifer will lead our team going forward," said Christopher. "Everything is in place for continued success with BGSU women's basketball. Our search process was important on many levels. Ultimately, it gave Jennifer the platform to demonstrate her commitment and how we will grow with her leadership.
"BGSU women's basketball has a tradition of excellence and I am confident that excellence will continue with Jennifer as our head coach."
Roos came to Bowling Green in July of 2001, and helped Curt Miller return the Falcons to the top of the Mid-American Conference. BGSU has won least one MAC championship of some kind in each of the last eight seasons. The Falcons have captured eight-straight MAC divisional crowns, earning the league's outright regular-season title in seven of those eight years, and the Falcons also have captured five MAC Tournament crowns and made eight consecutive national postseason appearances during that time.
"I want to thank Greg and Lesley (Irvine, BGSU Associate Athletic Director and Senior Woman Administrator), who led the search," said Roos. "I have been in communication with them since the Women's Final Four.
"I am thrilled to lead this team and this program. This is a community that loves women's basketball, and I relish the opportunity to build upon the championship tradition. I can think of no greater school to continue my coaching career and begin my head-coaching tenure."
Roos, a member of multiple Halls of Fame, has been in charge of the Falcon defense, and also has served as the team's recruiting coordinator. After three years as an assistant coach with the Falcons, she was elevated to associate head coach in the summer of 2004.
When Miller suffered a mild stroke in January of 2012, Roos assumed interim head-coaching duties and led the Falcons to a 2-0 record, with wins over Central Michigan and Northern Illinois prior to Miller's return to the bench in early February.
"We are excited to have Jennifer Roos as our new head coach," said Irvine. "She has been instrumental in the development of a championship level program. We know she is the right choice to continue the tradition of winning, community involvement and success on and off the court."
Roos was one of just five national winners of BasketballScoop.com's "Rising Star" Award. The award recognizes assistant coaches that are the best in the business as determined by their peers. On the way to that award, Roos was named one of 20 semifinalists in late March of ‘09. Coaches made it to the semifinalist stage through a nomination process by their peers. Then, the list was cut to 10 finalists, who were the leading vote-getters in the site's online voting. From there, a panel of coaches selected the five winners.
In her first 11 seasons with the program, Roos has helped the Falcons to an overall record of 258-92 and a MAC mark of 135-41. Those numbers represent a success rate of nearly 74 percent overall and a winning percentage of almost 77% in conference action.
Over the last nine years, however, the numbers are even more staggering. The Falcons are 237-57 (80.6%) overall, 124-20 (86.1%) in MAC regular-season play and 145-24 (85.7%) in all games vs. league foes during that time. BGSU has won more than 20 games in each of the last nine seasons, a MAC record.
The 2011-12 season saw the staff perform one of the top coaching jobs in their tenure. After losing six seniors and nearly 5,500 points from the previous season's club, the Falcons proceeded to win the MAC's regular-season crown yet again, with a 14-2 league mark. The Brown and Orange qualified for the WNIT, marking the eighth consecutive year with a national postseason berth, and BG won 24 games overall.
In 2010-11, the Falcons had an overall record of 28-5, winning a MAC East Division title with a 13-3 mark, then capturing three more games to win the league tournament title for the fifth time in seven seasons.
The 2009-10 season saw the Falcons post an overall record of 27-7 and a MAC ledger of 14-2. BGSU won the conference regular-season and tournament titles, returning to the NCAA Championships for the fourth time in the last six years. BG had the MAC Player of the Year -- Lauren Prochaska -- for the fourth consecutive season, and Prochaska went on to earn MAC Tournament MVP honors as well.
The ‘08-09 season saw BGSU get off to an 0-2 start, with a pair of double-digit losses on the road. But, the Falcons, with nine first- or second-year players on the 13-woman active roster, proceeded to win a school-record 25 consecutive games, going from late November to March without a loss. That run included wins in each of the first 14 contests of the conference schedule, en route to a 15-1 MAC record. The young Falcons posted a total of 29 wins, the second-highest total in MAC women's basketball history, and advanced to the third round of the WNIT.
The success of the ‘08-09 campaign came after a 2007-08 season that was, well, successful. With a roster containing 10 underclassmen – including seven freshmen – the Falcons put together a 26-8 season, advancing to the second round of the WNIT. The Falcons went 13-3 in MAC regular-season play to win the conference title yet again.
Of course, the Falcons' 2006-07 season remains the finest year in MAC women's basketball history. After posting a 28-3 mark -- a conference record for wins at the time -- in the 2005-06 season, the Falcons shattered that record with a 31-win season in ‘06-07. The latter BG team beat Oklahoma State and Vanderbilt in the NCAA Championships to become the first-ever MAC women's team to advance to the ‘Sweet Sixteen' of the national tourney.
The ‘06-07 season saw BGSU listed in the national rankings in both the Associated Press and USA Today/ESPN Coaches polls for nearly the entire season, reaching a school- and league-best ranking of 15th in the final AP listing.
The 2005-06 team set a league record for wins (since broken) by going 28-3 overall. The Falcons posted a perfect 16-0 MAC mark, and added three more wins in the conference tournament. In the ‘06-07 campaign, the club went 15-1 in league regular-season action, and again had a 3-0 mark in the MAC Tournament.
In 2004-05, the staff guided the Falcons, picked to finish third in the West Division, to the league's best overall record, a MAC regular-season championship and the top seed for the Kraft MAC Tournament. In the league tourney in Cleveland, the Brown and Orange downed Miami, Eastern Michigan and Kent State to capture the school's first conference tourney crown and NCAA Championships bid in over a decade. In the NCAAs, Miller and the Falcons led nationally-ranked Kansas State at the half before succumbing, 70-60.
All of that success came after a magical 2003-04 campaign, when Miller, Roos and the staff orchestrated one of the top turnarounds in the nation. BGSU, picked to finish sixth in the MAC West, tied for second (just a game out of first), finishing 21-10 overall. That marked a nine-win improvement over the prior season, tying for 11th in the country in that category.
In conference play, the coaching staff guided the Brown and Orange to an 11-5 ledger, a complete reversal of the prior year's league record (5-11). In 2003-04, the Falcons finished with a winning record -- both overall and in MAC action -- for the first time in six years. BGSU, six games better than the previous season in conference play, was the only MAC team to improve by more than three games over the 2002-03 season.
In 2002-03, the Brown and Orange went 12-16 overall. After posting the most successful non-conference season in over a decade, that edition of the Falcons – in BGSU's first season in the MAC's West Division – amassed a 5-11 league ledger that included a win over the division's co-champion.
The Falcons posted a 9-19 overall record in Miller's staff's first season at the helm. Despite the loss of Preseason All-MAC Team member Francine Miller for all but four games, BGSU went 6-10 in league action and featured a much-improved defense from prior years. In fact, over the past seven seasons, the Falcons have posted six of the top-nine totals in that category in school history.
Roos came to the Falcon program after spending eight years at Davidson College. She became a coach with the Wildcats upon her graduation from the school.
Roos served as the recruiting coordinator for her final two seasons, the scheduling coordinator for the last five years and the scouting coordinator during all eight years at Davidson.
Roos, a native of Louisville, Ky., was a member of both the 1991-92 Davidson club team and the 1992-93 varsity squad. The latter season marked the varsity program's first after a six-year absence.
During that 1992-93 season, Roos was the sole upperclassman among the team's starting five. She led DC in minutes, steals and assists, and was one of only two players to start all 22 games.
Roos was a standout in field hockey during her undergraduate years. She was a four-year letterwinner and a three-time MVP for Davidson. Roos led the ‘Cats to a 50-15-6 record in her four seasons, and helped the squad to three consecutive Deep South Association championships.
Roos served as a captain for both the field hockey and basketball teams as a senior. She also lettered in lacrosse at Davidson.
Roos graduated from Davidson in 1993, with a B.A. in history, upon which she began her coaching career at the school.
In January of 2006, Roos was inducted into the Davidson Athletics Hall of Fame. She was inducted into her high school's (Kentucky Country Day) Hall of Fame in February of 2010.
"I am thrilled Jennifer will lead our team going forward," said Christopher. "Everything is in place for continued success with BGSU women's basketball. Our search process was important on many levels. Ultimately, it gave Jennifer the platform to demonstrate her commitment and how we will grow with her leadership.
"BGSU women's basketball has a tradition of excellence and I am confident that excellence will continue with Jennifer as our head coach."
Roos came to Bowling Green in July of 2001, and helped Curt Miller return the Falcons to the top of the Mid-American Conference. BGSU has won least one MAC championship of some kind in each of the last eight seasons. The Falcons have captured eight-straight MAC divisional crowns, earning the league's outright regular-season title in seven of those eight years, and the Falcons also have captured five MAC Tournament crowns and made eight consecutive national postseason appearances during that time.
"I want to thank Greg and Lesley (Irvine, BGSU Associate Athletic Director and Senior Woman Administrator), who led the search," said Roos. "I have been in communication with them since the Women's Final Four.
"I am thrilled to lead this team and this program. This is a community that loves women's basketball, and I relish the opportunity to build upon the championship tradition. I can think of no greater school to continue my coaching career and begin my head-coaching tenure."
Roos, a member of multiple Halls of Fame, has been in charge of the Falcon defense, and also has served as the team's recruiting coordinator. After three years as an assistant coach with the Falcons, she was elevated to associate head coach in the summer of 2004.
When Miller suffered a mild stroke in January of 2012, Roos assumed interim head-coaching duties and led the Falcons to a 2-0 record, with wins over Central Michigan and Northern Illinois prior to Miller's return to the bench in early February.
"We are excited to have Jennifer Roos as our new head coach," said Irvine. "She has been instrumental in the development of a championship level program. We know she is the right choice to continue the tradition of winning, community involvement and success on and off the court."
Roos was one of just five national winners of BasketballScoop.com's "Rising Star" Award. The award recognizes assistant coaches that are the best in the business as determined by their peers. On the way to that award, Roos was named one of 20 semifinalists in late March of ‘09. Coaches made it to the semifinalist stage through a nomination process by their peers. Then, the list was cut to 10 finalists, who were the leading vote-getters in the site's online voting. From there, a panel of coaches selected the five winners.
In her first 11 seasons with the program, Roos has helped the Falcons to an overall record of 258-92 and a MAC mark of 135-41. Those numbers represent a success rate of nearly 74 percent overall and a winning percentage of almost 77% in conference action.
Over the last nine years, however, the numbers are even more staggering. The Falcons are 237-57 (80.6%) overall, 124-20 (86.1%) in MAC regular-season play and 145-24 (85.7%) in all games vs. league foes during that time. BGSU has won more than 20 games in each of the last nine seasons, a MAC record.
The 2011-12 season saw the staff perform one of the top coaching jobs in their tenure. After losing six seniors and nearly 5,500 points from the previous season's club, the Falcons proceeded to win the MAC's regular-season crown yet again, with a 14-2 league mark. The Brown and Orange qualified for the WNIT, marking the eighth consecutive year with a national postseason berth, and BG won 24 games overall.
In 2010-11, the Falcons had an overall record of 28-5, winning a MAC East Division title with a 13-3 mark, then capturing three more games to win the league tournament title for the fifth time in seven seasons.
The 2009-10 season saw the Falcons post an overall record of 27-7 and a MAC ledger of 14-2. BGSU won the conference regular-season and tournament titles, returning to the NCAA Championships for the fourth time in the last six years. BG had the MAC Player of the Year -- Lauren Prochaska -- for the fourth consecutive season, and Prochaska went on to earn MAC Tournament MVP honors as well.
The ‘08-09 season saw BGSU get off to an 0-2 start, with a pair of double-digit losses on the road. But, the Falcons, with nine first- or second-year players on the 13-woman active roster, proceeded to win a school-record 25 consecutive games, going from late November to March without a loss. That run included wins in each of the first 14 contests of the conference schedule, en route to a 15-1 MAC record. The young Falcons posted a total of 29 wins, the second-highest total in MAC women's basketball history, and advanced to the third round of the WNIT.
The success of the ‘08-09 campaign came after a 2007-08 season that was, well, successful. With a roster containing 10 underclassmen – including seven freshmen – the Falcons put together a 26-8 season, advancing to the second round of the WNIT. The Falcons went 13-3 in MAC regular-season play to win the conference title yet again.
Of course, the Falcons' 2006-07 season remains the finest year in MAC women's basketball history. After posting a 28-3 mark -- a conference record for wins at the time -- in the 2005-06 season, the Falcons shattered that record with a 31-win season in ‘06-07. The latter BG team beat Oklahoma State and Vanderbilt in the NCAA Championships to become the first-ever MAC women's team to advance to the ‘Sweet Sixteen' of the national tourney.
The ‘06-07 season saw BGSU listed in the national rankings in both the Associated Press and USA Today/ESPN Coaches polls for nearly the entire season, reaching a school- and league-best ranking of 15th in the final AP listing.
The 2005-06 team set a league record for wins (since broken) by going 28-3 overall. The Falcons posted a perfect 16-0 MAC mark, and added three more wins in the conference tournament. In the ‘06-07 campaign, the club went 15-1 in league regular-season action, and again had a 3-0 mark in the MAC Tournament.
In 2004-05, the staff guided the Falcons, picked to finish third in the West Division, to the league's best overall record, a MAC regular-season championship and the top seed for the Kraft MAC Tournament. In the league tourney in Cleveland, the Brown and Orange downed Miami, Eastern Michigan and Kent State to capture the school's first conference tourney crown and NCAA Championships bid in over a decade. In the NCAAs, Miller and the Falcons led nationally-ranked Kansas State at the half before succumbing, 70-60.
All of that success came after a magical 2003-04 campaign, when Miller, Roos and the staff orchestrated one of the top turnarounds in the nation. BGSU, picked to finish sixth in the MAC West, tied for second (just a game out of first), finishing 21-10 overall. That marked a nine-win improvement over the prior season, tying for 11th in the country in that category.
In conference play, the coaching staff guided the Brown and Orange to an 11-5 ledger, a complete reversal of the prior year's league record (5-11). In 2003-04, the Falcons finished with a winning record -- both overall and in MAC action -- for the first time in six years. BGSU, six games better than the previous season in conference play, was the only MAC team to improve by more than three games over the 2002-03 season.
In 2002-03, the Brown and Orange went 12-16 overall. After posting the most successful non-conference season in over a decade, that edition of the Falcons – in BGSU's first season in the MAC's West Division – amassed a 5-11 league ledger that included a win over the division's co-champion.
The Falcons posted a 9-19 overall record in Miller's staff's first season at the helm. Despite the loss of Preseason All-MAC Team member Francine Miller for all but four games, BGSU went 6-10 in league action and featured a much-improved defense from prior years. In fact, over the past seven seasons, the Falcons have posted six of the top-nine totals in that category in school history.
Roos came to the Falcon program after spending eight years at Davidson College. She became a coach with the Wildcats upon her graduation from the school.
Roos served as the recruiting coordinator for her final two seasons, the scheduling coordinator for the last five years and the scouting coordinator during all eight years at Davidson.
Roos, a native of Louisville, Ky., was a member of both the 1991-92 Davidson club team and the 1992-93 varsity squad. The latter season marked the varsity program's first after a six-year absence.
During that 1992-93 season, Roos was the sole upperclassman among the team's starting five. She led DC in minutes, steals and assists, and was one of only two players to start all 22 games.
Roos was a standout in field hockey during her undergraduate years. She was a four-year letterwinner and a three-time MVP for Davidson. Roos led the ‘Cats to a 50-15-6 record in her four seasons, and helped the squad to three consecutive Deep South Association championships.
Roos served as a captain for both the field hockey and basketball teams as a senior. She also lettered in lacrosse at Davidson.
Roos graduated from Davidson in 1993, with a B.A. in history, upon which she began her coaching career at the school.
In January of 2006, Roos was inducted into the Davidson Athletics Hall of Fame. She was inducted into her high school's (Kentucky Country Day) Hall of Fame in February of 2010.
