The 22 years under head coach Rosanne Scott are the most successful span in the history of the Westminster College women’s basketball program.
Entering her 23rd year as head coach for the 2024-25 season, Scott guided Westminster to three 20-win seasons and berths in the NCAA Division III Tournament in 2005 and 2007. The 2005 team won the program’s first and only Presidents’ Athletic Conference (PAC) Championship and advanced to the second round of the national tournament, while the 2007 team set a new school record for wins with a 22-7 record before qualifying for the NCAA playoffs.
Scott, a three-time PAC Coach of the Year, owns an 22-year record of 266-305 (.462), including a 159-180 record (.469) in PAC games. The Titans played in the PAC championship game in five out of seven years from 2004-10.
The 18-win season in 2021-22 were the second most wins the Titans notched since the 2006-07 season. Scott had three players named All-PAC in the 2021-22 season, as Camden Hergenrother and Natalie Murrio earned First Team status and Lindsay Bell was named Honorable Mention. Murrio was also named the PAC Player of the Year.
In 2019-2020, Scott led the Titans to a 20-8 overall record, the second most improved record in all NCAA Division III, and posted a 12-4 PAC record, the program's most conference wins since the 2013-14 season. The 20-win season was only Westminster's third ever and first since the 2006-07 campaign. The Titans started the 2019-20 season with a 10-game winning streak, the longest to open a season in program history and the third-longest overall. Scott achieved her 200th career victory.
At the age of 24, Scott was the youngest collegiate basketball coach in the country at any level at the time she was hired in April 2002. In her second season she was named PAC Coach of Year after leading the team to the PAC tournament finals.
Some of the best players in program history have played under Scott, including Emilee Ackerman (2004-08), Desiree Sterling (2003-07) and Erica Tallo (2001-05), three of the top four scorers in school history. Ackerman became the program’s first player to earn an honorable mention for the All-America team after she ranked third in the nation in scoring (23.5 points per game) in 2008 and became the school’s all-time leading scorer with 1,483 points. Sterling and Tallo have been inducted into the Titan Sports Hall of Fame.
Prior to being promoted to head coach, Scott served as assistant coach for two seasons at Westminster, first as an athletic assistant in 2000-01, and then as a full-time assistant in 2001-02.
Scott is a 2000 graduate of Bethany College in Bethany, W.Va., where, as a player, she earned two honorable mentions for the All-America team. Scott was also twice named PAC Player of the Year and she earned first-team All-PAC honors all four years. Scott was inducted into the Bethany College Athletic Hall of Fame in 2013.
Scott, a native of nearby Struthers, Ohio, completed her master’s degree in counselor education at Westminster. She resides in New Wilmington.
