Watertown-Mayer girls basketball coach John Rosholt is retiring after 26 seasons.
John Rosholt, Watertown-Mayer girls basketball coach, retires after 26 seasons
John Rosholt’s teams won 20 games in a season 11 times and reached the state tournament twice.
By Joel Rippel
April 19, 2024 at 7:11PM
Rosholt, who retired from teaching in 2023 after 38 years, also was a Royals assistant football coach for 33 years and coached the boys basketball team for four seasons.
Rosholt coached Royals girls basketball to two state tournament appearances (2010 and ’17) and a 463-271 record. Including his victories as the Royals boys coach, he had 501 career victories.
Among the girls basketball players he coached were Marissa Janning, Minnesota Miss Basketball in 2017 who played at Creighton, and sisters Monika Czinano, who played for Iowa, and Maggie Czinano, a junior in 2023-24 for the Gophers.
Rosholt directed the Royals girls teams to 11 20-victory seasons and three conference championships. The Royals finished third at the 2017 state tournament.
Rosholt, who began his teaching career at St. Francis in 1985, started teaching at Watertown-Mayer in 1986. Rosholt coached the Royals boys basketball team from 1992 to 1996. He began coaching the Royals girls team in 1997.
He was an assistant on the Royals football coaching staff from 1990 to 2023.
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Six players plus head coach Garrett Raboin and assistant coach Ben Gordon are from Minnesota. The tournament’s games will be televised starting Monday.
