Meet Leisa Rosen Head coach of the Fresno State Volleyball team! In her first year she coached her team win the Mountain West championship! In her time in Ann Arbor, Rosen coached 12 All-Americans and guided the Wolverines to postseason play 19 times. Michigan earned a total of 468 victories, including 66 wins over Top 25 opponents in her tenure and was ranked or received votes in the AVCA Top 25 poll in each of the last 14 seasons. Compiling 20 winning seasons in her tenure, the Wolverines advanced to seven Sweet 16s, two Elite Eights and the 2012 Final Four. Michigan racked up 38 All-Big Ten selections, 25 AVCA All-Americans and in the classroom earned 135 Academic All Big Ten honorees. Coming off a 17-win campaign this fall that included a sweep over ninth-ranked Penn State, Rosen began at Michigan in 1999, spending her first two seasons as an assistant coach before being promoted to associate head coach in 2001. She worked primarily with the Wolverines' defense overseeing Michigan's middle blockers and liberos while managing and coordinating all of Michigan's recruiting efforts. Prior to her time at Michigan, Rosen spent time at Boise State (1998) and Northern Michigan (1994-97), helping lead the Wildcats to the 1994 Division II National Championships and four Division II Final Four appearances racking up a 134-16 (.893) overall record. Rosen began her coaching career with the Central Ohio Volleyball Club in 1992. She followed that with a two-year stint as the 16-Gold coach of the Kern River Volleyball Club in Bakersfield, Calif. (1993-94). While coaching the Kern River Volleyball Club, Rosen played professionally for the San Diego Spikers of the National Volleyball Association. Before her professional coaching career, Rosen was a standout collegiate performer for the Ohio State University Buckeyes (1988-91). During her collegiate career, the Buckeyes won two Big Ten Conference championships (1989, '91) and advanced to the 1991 NCAA Championship Semifinals. Rosen also garnered numerous individual accolades at Ohio State. As a senior, she was selected the Big Ten Conference Player of the Year, AVCA All-America second team and was the Ohio State Female Athlete of the Year. Rosen was named to the AVCA All-Mideast Region team three times (1989, '90, '91). She captured Big Ten Freshman of the Year honors in 1988 and also competed in the United States Olympic Festival in 1989 and 1991. She was inducted into the Ohio State Athletics Hall of Fame in 2001. A native of Wasilla, Alaska, Rosen was honored as one of the 50 greatest sports figures of the 20th century from the state of Alaska by Sports Illustrated. Rosen earned her bachelor's degree in political science from Ohio State in 1992. She is married to Mark Rosen, and the couple has two sons, Brady and Cameron. https://gobulldogs.com/sports/womens-volleyball https://twitter.com/fsathletics https://www.instagram.com/fresnostateathletics https://www.facebook.com/fresnostateathletics https://www.youtube.com/user/fresnostateathletics

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