Russ Rose
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Russell "Russ" David Rose (born November 29, 1953) is an American author, professor and volleyball
coach at Penn State University (1979–present). His coaching record is 1,033-164, an .863 winning percentage which ranks first in NCAA history. He has the highest wins and winning percentage of any Penn State intercollegiate athletic coach in Penn State history.
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.
(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.
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. 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 8 of the last nine (2002–07, 2009–10), Big Ten Player of the Year 6 straight years (2005–2010), and also picked up AVCA National Freshman of the Year in 2005 and 2006. 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. In 2007, Christa Harmotto finished the season with the second highest hitting percentage in the nation (.492) 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. 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, keeping alive their streak of appearing in all 30 NCAA Tournaments. 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.
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
.
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 evelopmental 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 Holland.
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.
Volleyball
Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules.The complete rules are extensive...
coach at Penn State University (1979–present). His coaching record is 1,033-164, an .863 winning percentage which ranks first in NCAA history. He has the highest wins and winning percentage of any Penn State intercollegiate athletic coach in Penn State history.
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 AthleticsNational Association of Intercollegiate Athletics
The National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics is an athletic association that organizes college and university-level athletic programs. Membership in the NAIA consists of smaller colleges and universities across the United States. The NAIA allows colleges and universities outside the USA...
(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
At Penn State, Rose's teams have never posted less than 22 wins in a season, and he 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). Rose was inducted into the AVCA Hall of Fame in December 2007 and has been named the AVCA National Coach of the Year four times: 1990, 1997, 2007 and 2008, 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. 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 8 of the last nine (2002–07, 2009–10), Big Ten Player of the Year 6 straight years (2005–2010), and also picked up AVCA National Freshman of the Year in 2005 and 2006. In 2007, four players were named All-Americans, with Megan Hodge
Megan Hodge
Megan Hodge is an American indoor collegiate volleyball player who played for Pennsylvania State University's volleyball team.-Early life and high school:...
, Nicole Fawcett
Nicole Fawcett
Nicole Marie Fawcett is an American indoor volleyball player who played for Penn State University's volleyball team from 2005–2008, winning two NCAA National Championships in 2007 and 2008....
and Christa Harmotto
Christa Harmotto
Christa Deanne Harmotto is an American indoor volleyball player who plays the middle blocker position. She played college volleyball at Pennsylvania State University team from 2005–2008. In 2009, she joined the U.S. National Team....
taking first team and Alisha Glass taking second team. In 2007, Christa Harmotto finished the season with the second highest hitting percentage in the nation (.492) 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. 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, keeping alive their streak of appearing in all 30 NCAA Tournaments. 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.
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
Joe Paterno
Joseph Vincent "Joe" Paterno is a former college football coach who was the head coach of the Penn State Nittany Lions for 46 years from 1966 through 2011. Paterno, nicknamed "JoePa," holds the record for the most victories by an NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision football coach with...
.
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
Maccabiah Games
The Maccabiah is an international Jewish athletic event similar to the Olympics held in Israel every four years under the auspices of the Maccabi Federation, affiliated with the Maccabi World Union. The Maccabiah Games is the third largest international sports competition in the world...
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
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
men’s national team
United States men's national volleyball team
The United States men's national volleyball team is the national team for the United States of America, it is governed by USA Volleyball....
for an exhibition series with Canada
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
and the Soviet Union
Soviet Union
The Soviet Union , officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991....
. 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
United States women's national volleyball team
The United States women's national volleyball team represents the United States of America in international volleyball competitions and friendly games, and is governed by USA Volleyball.-Current Squad:...
to the Maccabiah Games. In 1990, he worked with the men's national and evelopmental teams during the training camps in San Diego. In 1993, he assisted with the U.S. men's matches with Canada
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
and the U.S. women's team against China
China
Chinese civilization may refer to:* China for more general discussion of the country.* Chinese culture* Greater China, the transnational community of ethnic Chinese.* History of China* Sinosphere, the area historically affected by Chinese culture...
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
2000 Summer Olympics
The Sydney 2000 Summer Olympic Games or the Millennium Games/Games of the New Millennium, officially known as the Games of the XXVII Olympiad, were an international multi-sport event which was celebrated between 15 September and 1 October 2000 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia...
in Sydney, Australia. In the summer of 2002, Rose assisted the U.S. men’s team on a 13-day tour of Italy
Italy
Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...
where the athletes competed against the world’s top teams, including Brazil
Brazil
Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is the largest country in South America. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population with over 192 million people...
, Italy
Italy
Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...
, Yugoslavia
Yugoslavia
Yugoslavia refers to three political entities that existed successively on the western part of the Balkans during most of the 20th century....
, Russia
Russia
Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...
and Holland.
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.
Awards and honors
- 1984 - Atlantic 10 Coach of the Year
- 1985 - Atlantic 10 Coach of the Year
- 1987 - Atlantic 10 Coach of the Year
- 1988 - Atlantic 10 Coach of the Year, AVCA Northeast Region Coach of the Year
- 1989 - Atlantic 10 Coach of the Year
- 1990 - AVCA National Coach of the Year, AVCA Mideast Region Coach of the Year, Volleyball Monthly Coach of the Year, Atlantic 10 Coach of the Year
- 1992 - AVCA Mideast Region Coach of the Year, Big Ten Coach of the Year
- 1993 - AVCA Mideast Region Coach of the Year, Big Ten Coach of the Year, Volleyball Monthly Coach of the Year
- 1994 - AVCA Mideast Region Coach of the Year
- 1996 - Big Ten Coach of the Year, NCAA District II Coach of the Year
- 1997 - AVCA National Coach of the Year, AVCA Mideast Region Coach of the Year, Big Ten co-Coach of the Year
- 1998 - Big Ten Coach of the Year
- 1999 - Volleyball Monthly Coach of the Year
- 2000 - United States Olympic CommitteeUnited States Olympic CommitteeThe United States Olympic Committee is a non-profit organization that serves as the National Olympic Committee and National Paralympic Committee for the United States and coordinates the relationship between the United States Anti-Doping Agency and the World Anti-Doping Agency and various...
Coach of the Year - 2003 - Big Ten Coach of the Year, Rose also celebrated 25 years of coaching at Penn State. He was honored with a bench outside of the post office sponsored by the Penn State Booster Club and was surprised with a gathering of more than 40 former players and members of the program, who offered their thoughts and insights on Rose and his career.
- 2005 - Big Ten Coach of the Year, USA Volleyball All-Time Great Coach Award (Donald S. Shondell Contemporary Division Award)
- 2006 - Big Ten Coach of the Year
- 2007 - AVCA Hall of Fame induction, AVCA National Coach of the Year, AVCA Mideast Region Coach of the Year, Big Ten Coach of the Year
- 2008 - BTN Big Ten Women's Coach of the Year, Big Ten Coach of the Year, AVCA National Coach of the Year, AVCA Mideast Region Coach of the Year
- 2009 - BTN Big Ten Women's Coach of the Year, Big Ten Coach of the Year, AVCA Mideast Region Coach of the Year
- 2010 - Big Ten Coach of the Year, AVCA Mideast Region Coach of the Year