Jaclyn Rosen enters her third season as an assistant coach with San Diego in 2019-20.
A former collegiate swimmer at Hawai’i, Rosen is a coaching veteran of nearly nine years at the collegiate level.
With the Toreros, she serves as the recruiting coordinator and main coach for middle to long distance free and stroke swimmers.
In her first two seasons with the Toreros, Rosen has helped the team set eight school records and succeed in the classroom with 23 conference all-academic awards. The team also earned back-to-back College Swimming and Diving Coaches Association Scholar All-America Team awards in the spring semesters in 2018 and 2019.
So far in 2019-20, the Toreros have broken three school records, notched 42 personal-best times, and qualified for the National Intercollegiate Championships at Cleveland State in March.
In 2018-19, Rosen helped Kailyn Evans set a school-record in the 100-yard breaststroke at the 2019 MPSF Championships and secure a pair of runner-up finishes (100-yard breaststroke; 200 IM).
In the classroom, the Toreros achieved a 3.44 GPA during the spring of 2019, helping them earn the second of back-to-back College Swimming and Diving Coaches Association Scholar All-America Team honors.
This was a year after the Toreros broke four school records in relay events during the 2018 MPSF Championships and a quartet of Toreros earned All-MPSF for a combined 16 honors. At the 2018 CSCAA National Invitational, the Toreros set a school record in the 400 yard freestyle relay – a record they set at the conference championships a few weeks prior – and garnered the program’s highest finish in the relay events at the invitational.
Prior to joining the Toreros, Rosen obtained a wealth of experience after previous coaching stops at Bowling Green, Cincinnati and San Jose State.
Rosen joined USD from Bowling Green where she spent the 2015-16 and 2016-17 seasons. During her time at BGSU, she monitored academic progress, which yielded the second-highest team GPA in the nation during the 2015-16 season for D-I swimming and diving (fall – 3.625 and spring – 3.72).
Bowling Green also had an NCAA qualifier, three NCAA Academic All-Americans, two MAC Champions (400 IM and 200 breast stroke), and broke a combined 13 school records during Rosen’s tenure.
During her one season with Cincinnati in 2014-15, Rosen was responsible for all travel and recruiting trips, as well as hosting recruiting weekends for the Bearcats in addition to her coaching responsibilities.
In the pool, Cincinnati student-athletes excelled under Rosen, who oversaw the distance program. During 2014-15, two men’s swimmers won conference championships (one in the mile) – the first time that had happened since 2010. Additionally, for the first time in 10 seasons, a Cincinnati swimmer was an NCAA qualifier and All-American.
Under Rosen, seven school records and three conference records fell, while 10 swims qualified under the NCAA ‘B’ standard.
Rosen started her coaching career with three seasons at San Jose State, spending three seasons with the Spartans from 2011 to 2014. The Spartans compiled a 24-5 dual meet record while she was on staff, including two Western Athletic Conference (WAC) team championships and eight individual conference champions.
During her time at SJSU, Rosen also served as the head swim coach of the Highlands Dolphins Aquatic Club for two-and-a-half years, directing a program of nearly 125 swimmers.
A native of San Francisco, California, Rosen earned her master’s of kinesiology in sport studies during her time on the coaching staff at San Jose State.
She also earned Outstanding Graduate Project Award for her masters’ thesis titled, “What Division I Swim Coaches Look for in the Recruiting Process.” Her research focused on the talent identification process, examining the behavioral and linguistic techniques used by the coaches as they look to identify the fit between a prospective student-athlete and a team.
In her collegiate career at Hawai’I, Rosen was as a captain during both her junior and senior seasons and helped the Rainbow Wahine capture the WAC team title during her senior season. Rosen was also honored with the team’s Most Inspirational Award and earned the Coach’s Award in 2003-04.
Rosen received a bachelor’s degree in kinesiology with an emphasis in exercise science, lifestyle management and leisure activity from Hawai’i in 2006.
