Judy Rose
Encyclopedia
Judith Wilkins Rose is the Director of Athletics for the University of North Carolina at Charlotte
, Charlotte 49ers
.
for the Winthrop Eagles from 1970 to 1974.
in 1974 with a B.S. degree in Physical Education
. She received a Masters degree in Physical Education from the University of Tennessee
in 1975.
under legendary women's basketball coach Pat Summit.
Rose joined the Charlotte 49ers program in 1975 as women's basketball and tennis coach. She served as UNC Charlotte's coordinator of women's athletics from 1976-82. She served as the women's basketball team's first head coach from 1975-82. Rose produced success on the AIAW Division II level and built a career record of 93-56, which included three 20-plus win seasons and two AIAW All-Americans (Paula Bennett
and Patricia Walker).
In 1990, Mullins was asked by the UNC System Board of Governors to relinquish his dual role. With Coach Mullins' recommendation UNC Charlotte Chancellor Dr. James H. Woodward appointed Judy Rose director of athletics at UNC Charlotte on July 1, 1990. Dr. Woodward promoted Mullins to Associate Vice Chancellor/men’s basketball coach at that time.
Rose became the sixth person to head the athletics department and just the second who was not also the men’s basketball coach. She was the third woman, ever, to spearhead a collegiate program.
Since her appointment as A.D., Rose has added a full-time Compliance Officer, revamped the athletic academic advising program, hired a full-time strength and conditioning staff and developed a goals and objectives program for head coaches, administrative staff and student-athletes.
Early in her administrative career, Rose pioneered the department’s most successful fund raiser, the annual Great Gold Rush Auction. It began in 1984 and has generated over nearly $3 million in its 27-year history, including more than $100,000 each of the last 20 years, a record $270,000 in 2006 and six straight years over the $200,000 plateau. She was also the creator of the 49ers' successful "Let Me Play" Luncheon that raises funds for women’s athletics. 2011 will see the 8th Annual Luncheon, which has raised over $600,000 for women’s athletics.
In her first year as director, the program left the Sun Belt Conference
and joined the Metro Conference
; the athletic department’s D. L. Phillips Athletic Complex, home of the varsity baseball, soccer and softball fields, underwent dramatic change; and plans were finalized for the James H. Barnhardt Student Activity Center and Dale F. Halton Arena
.
The athletic program received a construction facelift as two major projects were unveiled in 1994. In October 1994, the Wachovia Athletic Field House, a 10,000-square foot locker room and office complex for baseball, men’s soccer, women’s soccer and softball was opened. By 1996, the 49ers had the $5.7 million Irwin Belk Track and Field Center/Transamerica Field
, a 4,000-seat stadium complex which includes a 400-meter track, Transamerica Field for soccer and 11,000-square feet in field house space. Tennis courts were relocated to make a 15-court venue in the Phillips Complex.
The multi-purpose $26 million Barnhardt Student Activity Center (SAC) and the 9,105-seat Halton Arena hosted its first athletic contest December 2, 1996. Rose attracted what at the time was the largest gift in UNC Charlotte history in naming the Barnhardt Center and a second substantial gift in naming Halton Arena. The Miltimore-Wallis Athletic Training Center, which is an addition to the SAC, was completed in December 2003 and in the summer of 2006, the 49ers broke ground on Robert and Mariam Hayes Stadium
. In 1995, Rose and Dr. Woodward led Charlotte into Conference USA
and in 2003 accepted an invitation to join the Atlantic 10 Conference in the 2005-06 season.
Rose successfully lead the administration efforts to add a college football
program to the Charlotte 49ers, when Chancellor Dr. Phillip Dubois and the University Board of Trustees voted to add the program in 2008. In March 2011 Rose hired the 49ers' first football coach, former Wake Forest Demon Deacons
defensive coordinator Brad Lambert
. In April 2011 construction began on the program's $45 million dollar home stadium, which will debut for the inaugural game on August 31, 2013.
With the addition of 63 more athletics scholarships for the football program, an offsetting amount of Title IX
mandated women's sports will be added. These will most likely include Field Hockey
, Women's Lacrosse
and Swimming; however, Rose has been an advocate of adding Competitive Cheerleading as a Title IX compliant sport.
Rose coordinated the 49ers effort as host institution of the 1991 and 1993 NCAA Men’s Basketball Southeast Regionals, the 1994 NCAA Men’s Final Four, the 1996 NCAA Women’s Final Four and the 1999 and 2000 NCAA Men’s Soccer College Cup. Charlotte joined Kentucky and Minnesota as the only programs to host both basketball Final Fours. More recently, Charlotte hosted the 2008 NCAA Men’s Basketball Regional and the 2011 NCAA Second and Third Rounds as Time Warner Cable Arena.
Southeast Region Athletic Director of the Year Award. Other awards have included the Pegasus Award in 1999, the 1996 Bob Quincy Award by the Charlotte Sportsman Club, and the 1996 Charlotte Regional Sports Commission "Sixth-Man" Award for city-wide athletic achievement. She was selected the 1996 Woman of the Year in Charlotte and was named the 1997 Citizen of the Year by the University Chamber of Commerce. In 1986, she became the first female inducted into the Blacksburg (SC) Hall of Fame and she received her 25-Year Service Award from UNC Charlotte in 2000. More recently, she was inducted into Winthrop’s Athletics Hall of Fame, was named one of the city’s Top Businesswomen by The Business Journal and was recognized with the Judy Wilkins Rose endowment as part of the University YMCA’s Y Pathways program. In 2010, she was featured by Charlotte USA Women celebrating 20 Dynamic Women and was a recipient of Business Leader Media "2010 Charlotte Women Extraordinaire". In 2011, she was inducted into the Women’s History Hall of Fame (Charlotte Club).
Board, the Metro YMCA
Board, the Board of Managers for University City YMCA; and the NC High School Athletic Association Foundation. She has chaired the NCAA Walter Byers Postgraduate Scholarship Committee.
University of North Carolina at Charlotte
The University of North Carolina at Charlotte , also known as UNC Charlotte or simply Charlotte, is a public research university located in Charlotte, North Carolina, United States...
, Charlotte 49ers
Charlotte 49ers
The Charlotte 49ers represent the NCAA Division I sports teams of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Charlotte joined the Atlantic 10 in 2005. The 49ers field 16 teams, 8 men and 8 women....
.
Playing career
Rose played women's basketballWomen's basketball
Women's basketball is one of the few women's sports that developed in tandem with its men's counterpart. It became popular, spreading from the east coast of the United States to the west coast , in large part via women's colleges...
for the Winthrop Eagles from 1970 to 1974.
Education
Rose graduated from Winthrop UniversityWinthrop University
Winthrop University is a public, four-year liberal arts university in Rock Hill, South Carolina, USA. In 2006-07, Winthrop University had an enrollment of 6,292 students. The University has been recognized as South Carolina's top-rated university according to evaluations conducted by the South...
in 1974 with a B.S. degree in Physical Education
Physical education
Physical education or gymnastics is a course taken during primary and secondary education that encourages psychomotor learning in a play or movement exploration setting....
. She received a Masters degree in Physical Education from the University of Tennessee
University of Tennessee
The University of Tennessee is a public land-grant university headquartered at Knoxville, Tennessee, United States...
in 1975.
Coaching career
While at Tennessee, Rose was a graduate assistantGraduate assistant
A graduate assistant is a position who serves in a support role at a university, usually while completing post-graduate education. The individual typically assists professors or with instructional responsibilities as teaching assistants, coaches with an athletic team, or university department...
under legendary women's basketball coach Pat Summit.
Rose joined the Charlotte 49ers program in 1975 as women's basketball and tennis coach. She served as UNC Charlotte's coordinator of women's athletics from 1976-82. She served as the women's basketball team's first head coach from 1975-82. Rose produced success on the AIAW Division II level and built a career record of 93-56, which included three 20-plus win seasons and two AIAW All-Americans (Paula Bennett
Paula Bennett
Paula Lee Bennett is a New Zealand politician and member of parliament for the National Party. She is a Cabinet minister with the roles of Minister for Social Development and Employment, Minister for Disability Issues and Minister of Youth Affairs.-Early life:Bennett was born in 1969 to Bob...
and Patricia Walker).
Athletics administrative career
Rose was promoted to assistant athletic director in 1981 and was named associate director of athletics in 1985 to then-athletic director and men’s basketball coach Jeff Mullins. In 1982, the 49ers women’s program left the AIAW for NCAA Division I, and Rose was named assistant athletic director.In 1990, Mullins was asked by the UNC System Board of Governors to relinquish his dual role. With Coach Mullins' recommendation UNC Charlotte Chancellor Dr. James H. Woodward appointed Judy Rose director of athletics at UNC Charlotte on July 1, 1990. Dr. Woodward promoted Mullins to Associate Vice Chancellor/men’s basketball coach at that time.
Rose became the sixth person to head the athletics department and just the second who was not also the men’s basketball coach. She was the third woman, ever, to spearhead a collegiate program.
Since her appointment as A.D., Rose has added a full-time Compliance Officer, revamped the athletic academic advising program, hired a full-time strength and conditioning staff and developed a goals and objectives program for head coaches, administrative staff and student-athletes.
Early in her administrative career, Rose pioneered the department’s most successful fund raiser, the annual Great Gold Rush Auction. It began in 1984 and has generated over nearly $3 million in its 27-year history, including more than $100,000 each of the last 20 years, a record $270,000 in 2006 and six straight years over the $200,000 plateau. She was also the creator of the 49ers' successful "Let Me Play" Luncheon that raises funds for women’s athletics. 2011 will see the 8th Annual Luncheon, which has raised over $600,000 for women’s athletics.
In her first year as director, the program left the Sun Belt Conference
Sun Belt Conference
The Sun Belt Conference is a college athletic conference that has been affiliated with the NCAA's Division I since 1976. Its football teams participate in the Division I Football Bowl Subdivision , the higher of two levels of Division I football competition . The Sun Belt has member institutions...
and joined the Metro Conference
Metro Conference
The Metropolitan Intercollegiate Athletic Conference, popularly known as the Metro Conference, was an NCAA Division I athletics conference, so named because all of its charter members were in urban metropolitan areas in, or at least on the fringes of, the Southern United States...
; the athletic department’s D. L. Phillips Athletic Complex, home of the varsity baseball, soccer and softball fields, underwent dramatic change; and plans were finalized for the James H. Barnhardt Student Activity Center and Dale F. Halton Arena
Dale F. Halton Arena
Dale F. Halton Arena at the James H. Barnhardt Student Activity Center is an indoor sports venue located on the main campus of UNC Charlotte in Charlotte, North Carolina...
.
The athletic program received a construction facelift as two major projects were unveiled in 1994. In October 1994, the Wachovia Athletic Field House, a 10,000-square foot locker room and office complex for baseball, men’s soccer, women’s soccer and softball was opened. By 1996, the 49ers had the $5.7 million Irwin Belk Track and Field Center/Transamerica Field
Irwin Belk Track and Field Center/Transamerica Field
The Irwin Belk Track and Field Center/Transamerica Field is a stadium located on the campus of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Finished in 1996, the stadium is home to the 49ers soccer and track and field teams....
, a 4,000-seat stadium complex which includes a 400-meter track, Transamerica Field for soccer and 11,000-square feet in field house space. Tennis courts were relocated to make a 15-court venue in the Phillips Complex.
The multi-purpose $26 million Barnhardt Student Activity Center (SAC) and the 9,105-seat Halton Arena hosted its first athletic contest December 2, 1996. Rose attracted what at the time was the largest gift in UNC Charlotte history in naming the Barnhardt Center and a second substantial gift in naming Halton Arena. The Miltimore-Wallis Athletic Training Center, which is an addition to the SAC, was completed in December 2003 and in the summer of 2006, the 49ers broke ground on Robert and Mariam Hayes Stadium
Robert and Mariam Hayes Stadium
Robert and Mariam Hayes Stadium at Tom and Lib Phillips Field is a baseball venue on the campus of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte in Charlotte, North Carolina...
. In 1995, Rose and Dr. Woodward led Charlotte into Conference USA
Conference USA
Conference USA, officially abbreviated C-USA, is a college athletic conference whose member institutions are located within the Southern United States. The conference participates in the NCAA's Division I in all sports...
and in 2003 accepted an invitation to join the Atlantic 10 Conference in the 2005-06 season.
Rose successfully lead the administration efforts to add a college football
College football
College football refers to American football played by teams of student athletes fielded by American universities, colleges, and military academies, or Canadian football played by teams of student athletes fielded by Canadian universities...
program to the Charlotte 49ers, when Chancellor Dr. Phillip Dubois and the University Board of Trustees voted to add the program in 2008. In March 2011 Rose hired the 49ers' first football coach, former Wake Forest Demon Deacons
Wake Forest Demon Deacons
Originally, Wake Forest's athletic teams were known as the Fighting Baptists, due to its association with the Baptist Convention...
defensive coordinator Brad Lambert
Brad Lambert
Brad Lambert is an American college football coach and the current head coach of the Charlotte 49ers, who will begin play in the Football Championship Subdivision of Division I in 2013.-Kansas State:...
. In April 2011 construction began on the program's $45 million dollar home stadium, which will debut for the inaugural game on August 31, 2013.
With the addition of 63 more athletics scholarships for the football program, an offsetting amount of Title IX
Title IX
Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 is a United States law, enacted on June 23, 1972, that amended Title IX of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. In 2002 it was renamed the Patsy T. Mink Equal Opportunity in Education Act, in honor of its principal author Congresswoman Mink, but is most...
mandated women's sports will be added. These will most likely include Field Hockey
Field hockey
Field Hockey, or Hockey, is a team sport in which a team of players attempts to score goals by hitting, pushing or flicking a ball into an opposing team's goal using sticks...
, Women's Lacrosse
Women's lacrosse
Women's lacrosse, sometimes shortened to wlax or lax, is a sport played with twelve players on each team. Originally played by the indigenous peoples of the Americas, the first tribe to play it was the Hauser tribe, of the Great Plains. The modern women's game was introduced in 1890 at the St...
and Swimming; however, Rose has been an advocate of adding Competitive Cheerleading as a Title IX compliant sport.
Rose coordinated the 49ers effort as host institution of the 1991 and 1993 NCAA Men’s Basketball Southeast Regionals, the 1994 NCAA Men’s Final Four, the 1996 NCAA Women’s Final Four and the 1999 and 2000 NCAA Men’s Soccer College Cup. Charlotte joined Kentucky and Minnesota as the only programs to host both basketball Final Fours. More recently, Charlotte hosted the 2008 NCAA Men’s Basketball Regional and the 2011 NCAA Second and Third Rounds as Time Warner Cable Arena.
Recognitions and Awards
Rose has received several awards over her career, most notably the 2001 NACDANational Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics
The National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics is a professional organization for college and university athletic directors in the United States. NACDA boasts a membership of more than 6,100 individuals and more than 1,600 institutions throughout the United States, Canada and Mexico...
Southeast Region Athletic Director of the Year Award. Other awards have included the Pegasus Award in 1999, the 1996 Bob Quincy Award by the Charlotte Sportsman Club, and the 1996 Charlotte Regional Sports Commission "Sixth-Man" Award for city-wide athletic achievement. She was selected the 1996 Woman of the Year in Charlotte and was named the 1997 Citizen of the Year by the University Chamber of Commerce. In 1986, she became the first female inducted into the Blacksburg (SC) Hall of Fame and she received her 25-Year Service Award from UNC Charlotte in 2000. More recently, she was inducted into Winthrop’s Athletics Hall of Fame, was named one of the city’s Top Businesswomen by The Business Journal and was recognized with the Judy Wilkins Rose endowment as part of the University YMCA’s Y Pathways program. In 2010, she was featured by Charlotte USA Women celebrating 20 Dynamic Women and was a recipient of Business Leader Media "2010 Charlotte Women Extraordinaire". In 2011, she was inducted into the Women’s History Hall of Fame (Charlotte Club).
Committees and Appointments
Rose is active on numerous boards, NCAA and Atlantic 10 Conference Committees and is a popular guest speaker. She is currently chair of the Championship and Sport Cabinet for the NCAA and was recently appointed to serve on the NCAA Workgroup for Resource Allocation and her past committee involvement includes: Division I Women’s Basketball Discussion Group; NCAA Diversity Leadership Planning and Division I Men’s Collegiate Basketball Partnership. She is on the Board of the Charlotte Regional Sports Commission and the selection committee for the Greater Charlotte Sports Hall of Fame. She is a member of the National Advisory Board for the Intercollegiate Athletics Leadership Masters Degree Program at the University of Washington. She has served on the Board of Directors of the NC Sports Hall of Fame; the USA BasketballUSA Basketball
USA Basketball is a non-profit organization and the governing body for basketball in the United States. The organization represents the United States in FIBA and the men's and women's national basketball teams in the United States Olympic Committee...
Board, the Metro YMCA
YMCA
The Young Men's Christian Association is a worldwide organization of more than 45 million members from 125 national federations affiliated through the World Alliance of YMCAs...
Board, the Board of Managers for University City YMCA; and the NC High School Athletic Association Foundation. She has chaired the NCAA Walter Byers Postgraduate Scholarship Committee.