Monique Rosati - Director of Women's Basketball Operations - Women's Basketball Support Staff

BGSU Women's Basketball - 2018-19 Team Photo

Monique Rosati

Title:
Director of Women's Basketball Operations
Email:
mrosati@bgsu.edu
Phone:
419-372-3710

Monique Rosati recently completed her 16th season with the Bowling Green State University women's basketball program in 2022-23. Rosati, the Director of Operations, has been an integral part of the team's success during the last decade and a half, performing a veritable plethora of duties for the program.

During Rosati's first seven years with the Falcons, the team won at least 24 games in each year, and BG captured Mid-American Conference titles in six of those seven seasons.

And, over the last three seasons (2020-21 through '22-23), the Falcons have posted records of 69-31 overall and 38-18 in league regular-season play over the last three years. BGSU has qualified for national postseason play in each of those three seasons.

The Falcons went 31-7 in 2022-23, tying the school and MAC single-season records for victories. With a wildly entertaining style of play, BGSU shattered the school records for points, field goals made and attempted, rebounds and steals this season. The Falcons led the MAC in six statistical team categories, and BGSU was ranked among the top-22 teams in the country in no fewer than nine categories, including assists, steals, turnovers forced, scoring offense, scoring margin and, most importantly, winning percentage.

Rosati served on Curt Miller's BGSU staff for five seasons, and worked under head coach Jennifer Roos for six seasons before spending the last five years (2018-19 through '22-23) working with Robyn Fralick and her staff.

Rosati's day-to-day duties include handling all aspects of team travel and all film exchange for the program, while assisting the coaching staff with academic coordination and daily operations within the Falcons' basketball office.

In 2013-14, Rosati and the Falcons finished with a 30-5 record, posting the second-highest win total in both BGSU and MAC history. The Brown and Orange went 17-1 in MAC regular-season play, winning the league's outright title and advancing to the WNIT for the second time in as many years. The 2014 trip to the WNIT marked the program's 10th consecutive national postseason tourney appearance, a MAC record by far.

BGSU won MAC titles and advanced to national postseason play in each of Rosati's first five years with the program. Since her arrival in Northwest Ohio in August of 2007, the Falcons have posted an overall record of 228-127 and a mark of 111-75 in MAC regular-season matches. BG lost a total of only 17 league regular-season contests over her first seven years.

BGSU played national postseason tournament games at Anderson Arena in each of her first two seasons -- beating Dayton in the 2008 WNIT, and facing Syracuse and Indiana in that tourney at 'The House That Roars' in 2009 -- and made trips to the NCAA Championships in both 2010 and '11. The Falcons earned the MAC's automatic bid to the WNIT in 2012, hosting a first-round game, and the Brown and Orange won two WNIT contests at the Stroh Center in March of 2013 and three more in '14.

The 2012-13 team went 24-11 overall and 11-5 in MAC play, posting WNIT wins over SMU and Duquesne before falling by three points to eventual tourney champion Drexel. That team set several program standards at the defensive end of the floor. BGSU allowed just 54.3 points per game, a new school record. That broke the mark of 55.7 ppg allowed, set the previous year.

The 2011-12 season saw the BGSU 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. BG had an overall record of 24-7 in '11-12.

In the 2010-11 campaign, the Falcons went 28-5 overall, winning the MAC's East Division title with a 13-3 league mark, then capturing three more games to win the MAC Tournament title for the second consecutive season.

The 2009-10 Falcons had 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 a six-year span. 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.

In the '08-09 season, BGSU -- with nine first- or second-year players on the 13-woman active roster -- proceeded to win a school-record 25 consecutive games after an 0-2 start, 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.

With just one senior, Lindsey Goldsberry, on that '08-09 roster, the young Falcons posted a total of 29 wins (29-5), 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 for a fourth consecutive year.

Rosati, a native of Brooklyn, N.Y., worked with former Falcon head coach Curt Miller at Syracuse University, where she served as a manager for the women’s basketball team from 1994-2001. Miller was an assistant coach at Syracuse during the 1994-98 seasons, before spending 11 years as the Falcons’ head coach.

Rosati was named the head manager in 1996 and was responsible for tasks pertaining to statistics, video coordination, and public appearances while working towards the completion of a dual undergraduate program in International Relations and Spanish. Rosati continued her tenure with the Orange’s staff as she pursued a master’s degree from the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs.

In May of 2016, Rosati was invited to participate in the LeaderShape Institute, a six-day program for aspiring student leaders at BGSU. Rosati served as a cluster facilitator for the event, working closely with a group of students and acting as one of the primary support system in their growth and development during the experience.

Rosati graduated from Syracuse in 1997 receiving a Bachelor of Arts degree with a dual major in international relations and Spanish. In December of 2010, Rosati earned her MBA degree with an Accounting specialization from BGSU.

Rosati’s husband, Clayton, a fellow Syracuse alum, is an associate professor in BGSU’s School of Media and Communication. The couple resides in Bowling Green.