After a historic 2022-23 season for the Tennessee Tech women's basketball team with an Ohio Valley Conference championship and a victory in the NCAA Women's Basketball Tournament, Kim Rosamond has certainly cemented a place for herself in the program's history.

"Kim Rosamond has had a vision for the Tennessee Tech women's basketball program since the day she first walked into the Hooper Eblen Center," Wilson said. "Her determination, her commitment to Golden Eagle basketball has been tremendous and the results speak for themselves. As the team continues to build on its legacy, Coach Rosamond's teams have brought the University and the community together in support and I truly believe what she has built over these last few years is only the beginning."

Through her first seven seasons in an incredibly tradition-rich program, and following in the footsteps of legendary Tech coaches Marynell Meadors and Bill Worrell, Rosamond has more than just maintained the tradition, adding new chapters to the legacy.

Rosamond completed her seventh campaign as head coach with a 23-10 record and 13-5 in the Ohio Valley Conference. The Golden Eagles battled through the OVC for a third-place regular-season finish, then improved on that in the conference tournament as Tech topped SIUE 76-62 in the quarterfinals, rallied from a 10-point deficit in the fourth quarter to beat Eastern Illinois 66-61 in the semis, then knocked off OVC regular-season champ Little Rock – who had only lost once during the conference campaign – 54-46 to claim the Golden Eagles' first tournament championship – and 10^th all-time -- and first NCAA appearance since 2000.

Ending that 23-year NCAA tournament drought, the Tech women's basketball team ended another one as the Golden Eagles defeated Monmouth 79-69 in their NCAA First Four matchup, winning their first NCAA contest since 1990 – the fourth all-time for the Golden Eagles and eighth for the entire Ohio Valley Conference (Tech over Southern Miss in 1987, South Carolina in 1989, Richmond in 1990 and Monmouth in 2023, Belmont over Gonzaga in 2021 and Oregon in 2022, and Middle Tennessee over Jackson State in 1983 and South Carolina in 1986.)

Rosamond’s first two seasons in Cookeville focused on building a championship culture and recruiting to reestablishing Tech as an OVC power.  The last five seasons under Rosamond have been impressive, putting together a .640 winning percentage in that span with a 96-53 record – an average of 19.2 wins per season -- to help turn around the Tech women's basketball program. That span also included guiding the team through the COVID-19 pandemic and continuing to build a successful program on and off the court.

The 2022-23 season was the high point, but it started rolling with an incredible run in Rosamond’s third season as the Golden Eagles produced the third-best turnaround in NCAA women's basketball as the team rebounded from a 7-22 mark in 2017-18 to finish 22-11 in 2018-19. Along the way, Tech defeated Middle Tennessee for the first time since 2004 and snapped Belmont's 47-game OVC winning streak on the Bruins' home court. Rosamond was named the 2019 Coach of the Year by both the OVC and the Tennessee Sports Writers Association.

During Rosamond's watch, the Golden Eagles have earned 13 total All-Ohio Valley Conference selections shared between Kesha Brady, Jordan Brock, Mackenzie Coleman, Jada Guinn, Yaktavia Hickson, Anna Jones, Maaliya Owens and Anna Walker, and six OVC All-Tournament nods for Guinn, Kiera Hill, Jones, Owens and Walker. She has also seen records fall as Brock became the program's career 3-point leader, Anacia Wilkinson became the program's career blocks leader and Owens became the program's single-season 3-point record holder this past season.

In her tenure, Rosamond earned the program's 1,000^th victory on Dec. 29, 2022, at SIUE, to become the 20^th NCAA Division I women's team to reach the milestone. She then reached her own personal mark at the next game on Dec. 31, 2022, at Lindenwood, as she won her 100^th game as a head coach. The program reached 1,016 wins at the close of last season, 115 with Rosamond as the head coach.

Academically, the Tech women have excelled as well, landing in the WBCA's Academic Top 25 after the 2021-22 campaign and earning an honorable mention in 2022-23. The team has continued to record their highest grade-point averages in history, including a 3.7 mark in Spring 2020. The team also has a perfect 100-percent graduation rate over the last six seasons.

Along the way, Tech women's basketball has been winning the right way as the team has received three OVC Team Sportsmanship Awards (2018, 2020, 2023).

Named the sixth head coach in program history on March 31, 2016, Rosamond came to Tech after a successful nine-year run as an assistant coach and recruiting coordinator for Vanderbilt head coach Melanie Balcomb, the program's all-time winningest coach. The Commodores earned seven NCAA tournament appearances – including two Sweet 16 appearances – as well as a Southeastern Conference championship.

Prior to her time in Nashville, Rosamond, along with current assistant Melanie Walls, was on Stephany Smith's staff at Middle Tennessee and was a part of two championship teams and two NCAA tournament victories between 2003 and 2005.

Rosamond got her start in coaching as an assistant at Ole Miss from 1998-2003 for Coach Ron Aldy. She graduated with her degree in journalism and advertising from Ole Miss in 1998, having played four seasons for Naismith Hall of Famer and Olympic coach, Van Chancellor,  and her final season under Mississippi Association of Independent Schools Hall of Famer Ron Aldy.

As a student-athlete, Rosamond was the first Ole Miss Lady Rebel to earn All-SEC Academic honors in all four years of her collegiate career. The Louisville, Miss, native is in great coaching company as she hails from a small town of just under 6,000 people that has produced multiple Division I head coaches such as Andy Kennedy (UAB MBB), Matthew Mitchell (former Kentucky WBB), Mark Hudspeth (former Austin Peay FB), and Van Chancellor (former Ole Miss, LSU WBB/ WNBA Houston Comets/ Olympic Coach).