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Turning struggling
programs around is something Jaime Rose knows a little something
about.
In two seasons at
Independence Community College, Rose’s teams made a 16-game
improvement from the first season to the second season. Now Rose is
now working her magic with the Hutchinson Community College softball
team.
In her first four
seasons at the helm of the Lady Dragons, Rose, the eighth head coach
in Lady Dragon softball history, has produced a record of 129-89
overall.
HCC won 23 games in
her first season in 2005. The program made a 15-win improvement one
season later. Then this past season, Rose guided the Lady Dragons to
a 40-19 record, the second-most wins in a single season in program
history and a third-place finish in the Jayhawk West.
HCC’s 3-0 victory
over Coffeyville on April 23, 2006, was her 50th career win at HCC.
A 5-3 victory over Allen County on March 23, 2008, Rose became only
the second Lady Dragon coach with 100 coaching victories. She is
already the second-winningest coach in Blue Dragon history, trailing
only Becky Endicott (239 victories).
In six seasons as a
head coach, Rose’s record is 167-143.
Under Rose’s
guidance, the Lady Dragon softball program produced its first NJCAA
All-American (Jessica Glenn, 2008) since 1992. Now Rose is
re-establishing the Lady Dragon program as a source of players for
four-year programs. Fourteen players in Rose’s tenure have gone on
to four-year programs.
The 2008 season was
a payoff for three hard years of putting down a foundation for the
program. Rose guided the 2008 Lady Dragons to only the second
40-victory season in program history (40-19) and the highest Jayhawk
West finish since 1993 when HCC finished third behind Division I
league powers Butler and Seward County. The Lady Dragons went 11-5
in league play, the most wins in conference since 1987 when HCC
finished second.
In addition to Glenn
earning All-America status, she was one of five Lady Dragon players
to earn postseason honors. Nicole Bauer, Jenn Tanno, Jenna Schroeder
and Megan Hudson all earned second-team all-conference honors.
The success of 2008
was in part because of a late-season surge by the 2007 Lady Dragons.
HCC finished the 2007 season only 29-26, but a run through the
loser’s bracket in the 2007 Region VI Tournament let to the team
tying the best postseason finish in program history. Four straight
loser’s bracket victories put HCC in the loser’s bracket final where
it lost to Cowley to finish third in the tournament.
Amie Hubbard was a
second-team All-Jayhawk West performer, while Jenn Tanno, Sarah
Walkup and Stephanie Baltazor earned honorable mention all-league
honors.
When Rose took over
the HCC program in the fall of 2004, HCC had just three players
returning from the previous season. That didn’t deter the first-year
HCC head coach at all. The HCC-Rose era began with an 11-1 victory
over Labette on Feb. 27, 2005. That first season turned into the
program’s first winning season since 1992, finishing 23-22. The only
down note to Rose’s first season was that the Lady Dragons didn’t
qualify for the Region VI tournament.
One year later, Rose
guided the Lady Dragons to a 37-22 season, a 15-win improvement over
the previous year. HCC’s 9-7 Jayhawk West record was the program’s
first winning conference season and first upper-division league
finish since 1992. HCC finished fifth in the Region VI Tournament,
going 3-2.
Rose’s first heading
coaching job came at Independence, hired before the 2003 season.
Independence went 11-31 in 2003. Just one year later, Rose led the
Pirates to a winning season and a 16-game improvement, going 27-23.
Before becoming a
head coach, Rose was an assistant at Kansas Wesleyan (1997-2000) and
Northwest Missouri State University (2000-02).
Rose earned her
bachelor of arts degree from Kansas Wesleyan University in Health,
Physical Education and Recreation in 2000. She earned her master’s
of science in education degree at Northwest Missouri State in
Science and Education in 2002.
Rose and her
husband, Travis, have been married for four years. The couple has
one daughter, Taylor, who is 1.
ROSE’S
COACHING RECORD
Year
(Team) Record Pct. League
Finish Region Finish
2003
(Independence) 11-31
.262
3-15
10th
1-2
8th
2004
(Independence) 27-23
.540 7-11 7th 0-2 T9th
2005
(HCC) 23-22 .511 6-10
T5th DNQ -
2006
(HCC) 36-19 .655 9-7
4th 3-2 5th
2007
(HCC) 29-26
.527 6-10 T4th
5-2 3rd
2008
(HCC) 40-19
.678 11-5 3rd
3-2 5th
Independence
totals 38-54 .413
10-26
1-4
Hutchinson
totals 128-86
.598 32-35
11-6
Totals 166-140
.546 42-61 12-10 |
