Russ Rose

Russ Rose

Sport(s) Women's Volleyball
Current position
Title Head coach
Team Penn State
Conference Big Ten
Record 1,096-173
Biographical details
Born November 29, 1953
Chicago, IL
Playing career
George Williams College
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
1976-1977
1978
1979-Present		 George Williams College (Assistant)
Nebraska (Defensive Coach)
Penn State
Accomplishments and honors

Championships

1983 Atlantic 10 Conference Championship
1984 Atlantic 10 Conference Championship
1985 Atlantic 10 Conference Championship
1986 Atlantic 10 Conference Championship
1987 Atlantic 10 Conference Championship
1988 Atlantic 10 Conference Championship
1989 Atlantic 10 Conference Championship
1990 Atlantic 10 Conference Championship
1992 Big Ten Conference Championship
1993 Big Ten Conference Championship, NCAA Championship (Runner-Up)
1996 Big Ten Conference Championship
1997 Big Ten Conference Championship, NCAA Championship (Runner-Up)
1998 Big Ten Conference Championship, NCAA Championship (Runner-Up)
1999 Big Ten Conference Championship, NCAA Championship
2003 Big Ten Conference Championship
2004 Big Ten Conference Championship
2005 Big Ten Conference Championship
2006 Big Ten Conference Championship
2007 Big Ten Conference Championship, NCAA Championship
2008 Big Ten Conference Championship, NCAA Championship
2009 Big Ten Conference Championship, NCAA Championship
2010 Big Ten Conference Championship, NCAA Championship
2012 Big Ten Conference Championship
2013 Big Ten Conference Championship, NCAA Championship
2014 NCAA Championship

Russell "Russ" David Rose (born November 29, 1953) is an American author, professor and volleyball coach at Penn State University (1979–present). Through the end of 2014, his coaching record is 1161–180 (an .866 winning percentage, which ranks first in NCAA history.[1] He has the most wins and highest winning percentage of any Penn State intercollegiate athletic coach in Penn State history.[2]

In 1986, Rose married Lori Barberich, a former three-time All-American at Penn State. They are the parents of four sons, Jonathan, Michael, Christopher, and Nicholas.

College

Rose graduated from George Williams College in 1975. He was a member of the school’s team that won the 1974 National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) national championship. He was the captain of the 1975 team that finished third in NAIA competition.

After graduation, Rose remained at George Williams for two years as a part-time coach, helping the women’s team win two state titles and place sixth in national competition. He also assisted the men’s team that won the national championship in 1977.

In 1978, he completed his master’s degree at Nebraska, where he was the defensive coach for the Cornhusker women. While writing his thesis on volleyball statistics, he led the second team to a two-year varsity mark of 52-5.

Penn State University

Further information: Big Ten Conference volleyball

At Penn State, Rose's teams have never posted fewer than 22 wins in a season, and have never had a losing season in program history. Rose earned his 900th career victory at Penn State on September 21, 2007, with a win over Michigan State (only the third Division I coach to reach the milestone).[3] Rose was inducted into the AVCA Hall of Fame in December 2007 and has been named the AVCA National Coach of the Year five times: 1990, 1997, 2007, 2008, and 2013, more than any other Division I coach.

Rose has coached 28 different All-Americans (earning 64 selections in all, with 11 3-time selections & 3 4-time selections), All-Big Ten players (earning 74 selections in all), and Academic All-Big Ten players (earning 100 selections in all). In his 32 seasons, he has coach 64 All-Americans, having at least one on his team every season except for 2001. The 2008 National Championship team which went 38-0 featured 6 All-Americans.

In 1999, Lauren Cacciamani was named the AVCA National Player of the Year, Big Ten Player of the Year, Big Ten Female Athlete of the Year and the Honda Award winner.[4] Bonnie Bremner and Katie Schumacher joined Cacciamani as All-Big Ten selections in 1999. Bremner won back-to-back Big Ten Player of the Year honors in 1997 and 1998. Amanda Rome and Carrie Schonveld were recognized with honorable mention All-Big Ten status, while Mishka Levy was named to the conference’s All-Freshman squad. Penn State also placed six players on the Academic All-Big Ten Team in 1999, as Bremner, Cacciamani, Kalna Miller, Schonveld, Rome and Dawn Ippolito were honored.

Rose's players earned Big Ten Freshman of the Year honors for a record 6 straight years and 10 of the last eleven (2002–07, 2009–12), Big Ten Player of the Year 6 straight years (2005–2010), and also picked up AVCA National Freshman of the Year in 2005, 2006, and 2010.[5] In 2007, four players were named All-Americans, with Megan Hodge, Nicole Fawcett and Christa Harmotto taking first team and Alisha Glass taking second team.[6] In 2007, Christa Harmotto finished the season with the second highest hitting percentage in the nation (.492)[7] and freshman Arielle Wilson finishing 5th in the nation, with a .446 percentage.

In 2008, an AVCA record six All-American's were named to Rose's squad. Hodge, Fawcett, Harmotto, and Glass earned First Team honors while sophomores Blair Brown and Arielle Wilson earned Second Team honors.[8] Senior Nicole Fawcett became Penn State's second ever AVCA National Player of the Year. Megan Hodge repeat as the NCAA Championship Most Outstanding Player in 2008 after leading her team to the victory over Stanford for Penn State's second consecutive NCAA championship.

In 2009 Penn State captured its seventh consecutive and 13th overall Big Ten title after completing the regular season 32-0 (20-0 in the Big Ten) after going an incredible 114-8 in sets played. Covering the two consecutive 38-0 perfect seasons (238 sets), Penn State has gone a remarkable set record of 228-10 (96%). The Nittany Lions did not lose a set in the NCAA Tournament until the National Semifinals against Hawaii but won that match 3-1 to set up an exciting showdown against the #2 Texas Longhorns. In the Championship match, Texas would grab a 2-0 set lead. During their remarkable winning streak, Penn State had never been down 0-2, but he Lions clawed their way back and won the match 3-2 and extended their win streak to 102 games with another perfect season.

In 2010 Penn State won the first seven matches, before having their record win streak snapped at 109. They went 16-4 in Big Ten play, but still managed to win their eighth consecutive Conference Championship (14th overall), matching the streak of eight consecutive Atlantic 10 Championships set during all eight years in the conference. Even though they dropped five matches, including four in conference, all losses were away from University Park, so they won all 20 home matches and extending their Rec Hall winning streak to 94 games.

Rose led the Lions to a regular season record of 26-5 and earned the fourth overall seed in the NCAA Tournament. They only dropped one set, in the Regional Finals verses Duke on their way to the Final Four. They then swept Texas in the semifinals and swept California in the Championship to claim their fourth consecutive National Championship and a final record of 32-5. They have won 24 consecutive postseason games, an NCAA record. The Championship was Rose's fifth, which is set a record for most by a single coach in NCAA history. Through 2014, the team has appeared in all 34 NCAA tournaments.

In 2013, Rose won his sixth national title with the Lady Lions. His squad earned four AVCA All-American's honors in Micha Hancock, Ariel Scott, Deja McClendon, and Katie Slay. Hancock also won the 2013 NCAA Championship Most Outstanding Player after leading her team to the victory over Big Ten foe Wisconsin for the title, 3-1.

In 2014, despite having to replace three All-Americans in McClendon, Scott, and Slay, Rose coached the Nittany Lions to their seventh national championship, which gave them the most women's volleyball titles all-time ahead of Stanford (6).

Other work at Penn State

In addition to being the volleyball coach, Rose is also a professor at Penn State, as he teaches a sports ethics class: KINES 493 Principles and Ethics of Coaching.

Additionally, in November 2011 Coach Rose was tapped to be a member of the search committee to hire the new head football coach after the termination of legendary coach Joe Paterno.

International

Throughout his career, Rose has been called upon to share his expertise with the coaches and players who represent the United States in international competition. An instructor in the USVBA coaches certification program, Rose has served as a national referee and evaluator and state director for volleyball for the Special Olympics. Rose was a member of the NCAA Division I Volleyball Committee for six years and the NCAA representative to the United States Volleyball Association Rules Committee.

An active clinician, Rose has continued to do clinics on the island, as well as in the United States. Players are not the only ones to benefit from Rose’s tutelage. Over 20 individuals within the current college coaching fraternity have gained instruction from Rose.

In 1981, Rose coached the U.S. women's team at the 1981 Maccabiah Games in which they won the silver medal. A year later, he was an assistant coach for the women's team that won the bronze medal at the 1982 National Sports Festival. He returned to the National Sports Festival in 1983, this time as the East women's head coach and once again winning the bronze medal. In 1985, he returned to the Maccabiah Games as the head coach of the U.S. men's team, winning the bronze medal.

In 1989, Rose was an assistant coach with the United States men’s national team for an exhibition series with Canada and the Soviet Union. His work on the international scene was to have continued in July of that year, but personal commitments and time constraints prevented him from accepting the position as head coach of the U.S. women’s team to the Maccabiah Games. In 1990, he worked with the men's national and developmental teams during the training camps in San Diego. In 1993, he assisted with the U.S. men's matches with Canada and the U.S. women's team against China

After taking few years off to focus on Penn State, he returned to the international scene from 1998–2000, assisting with the U.S. men's team as they prepared for the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia. In the summer of 2002, Rose assisted the U.S. men’s team on a 13-day tour of Italy where the athletes competed against the world’s top teams, including Brazil, Italy, Yugoslavia, Russia and the Netherlands.

In 2005, USA Volleyball named Rose one of their All-Time Great Coaches, making him the first Big Ten coach to ever receive the honor and putting him in the company of the best volleyball coaches in history, including previous Olympic coaches as well as many of their peers.

Professional

Rose coached professional men’s volleyball in Puerto Rico in 1976.

Awards and honors

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