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Men's Tennis
Coaching Staff
Mark Rosewell
Head Coach
Office: (660) 562-1312
E-mail: mrosewe@nwmissouri.edu
Head coach Mark Rosewell is the midst of his 23rd season as head men’s and women’s tennis coach at Northwest Missouri State University. The 2007 season marks his 25th as a collegiate head coach as he was the general at Central Missouri State prior to Northwest.
Rosewell has built Northwest into one of the strongest programs in the MIAA and the nation. He is the winningest coach in Northwest history, in any sport.
For the fourth straight season, Rosewell led at least one of his team’s to the NCAA Division II Round of 16, this year taking both the men and women to the Championships. The 2006 Bearcat men and women won North Central regionals with the women hosting as the No. 1 seed.
The 2006 women rattled off 15 straight wins to start the year and were ranked 35th in the final ITA poll. For the second consecutive season, Gena Lindsay earned MIAA Player of the Year honors and the MIAA Sportsmanship of the Year Award.
Back in 2003, Rosewell led a Northwest team to the NCAA Division II Quarterfinals for the second time in his tenure. The Bearcat women were 24-10 overall and reached the round of eight in the NCAA Division II Tennis Championships.
Rosewell’s 2003 Bearcat women also won their third consecutive MIAA Championship.
In 2002, Rosewell led the Bearcats to both the men’s and women’s MIAA Championships. It was the fifth time in his career. Rosewell’s teams is the only coach in the MIAA to have pulled off the MIAA men’s and women’s sweep this many times.
Rosewell has guided the Bearcat men’s and women’s programs to 16 MIAA titles and 21 appearances in the NCAA Regionals. His 16 MIAA Championships are easily the most of any coach in Bearcat history.
His 1997 women’s team won a school-record 28 matches and advanced to the NCAA Division II Quarterfinals. The women also put together a school-record 24-match winning streak that season.
Since the Lexington, Mo. native took over the Bearcat tennis teams in 1985, he has guided the men’s team to a 323-175 record. Rosewell’s men have garnered six MIAA Championships, three regional championships and 61 MIAA singles or doubles titles.
Over that same amount of time, the Bearcat women have put together a record of 367-142. They have won 10 MIAA titles, made two trips to the NCAA Quarterfinals and have won 76 MIAA singles or doubles championships.
Rosewell has been named MIAA Men’s or Women’s Coach of the Year 18 times after earning the nod twice in 2006. He was recently appointed to the Intercollegiate Tennis Association Board of Directors.
Rosewell is beginning his 14th year as the national chair of the International Tennis Coaches Association Division II awards committee for men. Due to Rosewell’s efforts, Northwest has hosted 16 regional ITA fall tournaments. In Rosewell’s tenure, Northwest has hosted five NCAA Division II regional tournaments after the women were the top seed in the region in 2006.
Rosewell came to Northwest from Central Missouri State, where he served as head men’s and women’s tennis coach in 1983 and 1984. He guided the CMSU women to a 9-3 record, finishing third in the MIAA in 1984.
As a player at Central Missouri State from 1974-77, Rosewell compiled the team’s best career winning percentage in the 1970s.
After earning his bachelor’s degree in physical education, Rosewell remained with the CMSU program for two more years, completing work on his master’s degree in industrial safety engineering. During that time, he served as the Mules’ and Jennies’ head coach.
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