[Cassie Kosiba, women's basketball]

[Head Coach Cassie Kosiba, women's basketball action]Head Coach: Cassie Kosiba (third season)
Phone: (507)222-4058
Email: ckosiba@carleton.edu
Record at Carleton: 9-41 (two seasons)
Career Record: same

In April 2010, Carleton College named Cassie (Glasrud) Kosiba ’03, formerly the top women's basketball assistant coach at Long Island University's (N.Y.), as its new women’s basketball coach. Kosiba enters her second season ready to continue to work with the team toward success.

Kosiba (pronounced ko-SHEE-bah) returns to her alma mater after serving the last four years as an assistant coach at the NCAA Division I level, most recently spending two seasons with the Blackbirds, the women’s basketball program at Long Island University’s (LIU) Brooklyn campus. She is the seventh coach in Carleton women’s basketball history, taking over the reins of the program from Tammy Metcalf-Filzen, who retired after the 2009-10 campaign after registering a 226-122 ledger in 13 seasons at the helm.

At Long Island, Kosiba served as recruiting coordinator, compliance liaison, and academic advisor; she was also responsible for scouting, player development and supervising the other assistant coaches and the director of operations. She worked with the Blackbirds’ shooting guards and forwards and oversaw the team’s academic progress.

Long Island went 9-20 in Kosiba’s first season in Brooklyn, a campaign that saw the LIU drop eight games by two points or less. The addition of her first recruiting class—which was ranked in the nation’s top 60 by Blue Chip Basketball Report—helped the program to a 22-10 mark in 2009-10, tied for the second-highest win total in program history. The Blackbirds finished second in the league and advanced to the Northeast Conference Championship game.

Prior to joining the Long Island staff in July 2008, Kosiba had a two-year stint on the bench at Manhattan College (N.Y.), where she served as offensive coordinator in addition to recruiting, scouting, player development, and academic advisor duties.

A 2003 graduate of Carleton with a bachelor’s degree in gender studies, Kosiba enjoyed a successful basketball career, contributing to a 2000-01 team that went 22-5 and won the Knights’ first conference championship. That squad also secured the program’s initial trip to the NCAA Division III tournament.

The next year she began a two-year stint on Metcalf-Filzen’s coaching staff, helping the Knights break school records each year, including a 25-3 mark in ’02-’03. Both squads captured Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference tournament titles and culminated their seasons with trips to the NCAA Championships.

Kosiba also had a record-setting two-year career as a volleyball player at Carleton, donning the maize and blue in 2000 and 2001. During a September 2001 contest, she established the NCAA mark with 15 services aces in a single match.

After leaving Carleton, she joined the coaching staff at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (Mass.) and spent three seasons as the Engineers’ top basketball assistant, with duties that also included serving as the program’s recruiting coordinator and strength and conditioning coach. The recruits she attracted to WPI posted the school record for victories their final year. She was also tabbed interim head volleyball coach in 2006.

Kosiba is a native of Spring Grove, Minn., where she starred in basketball, becoming only one of 12 women’s players in recorded state history to post a quadruple double with 12 points, 10 rebounds, 15 assists, and 10 steals during a 1997 game.

The former Cassie Glasrud resides in Burnsville, Minn., with her husband, Chris. Prior to enrolling at Carleton, she studied for 20 months at the United States Air Force Academy.

[Lumumba Samuels, women's basketbal]Assistant Coach Lumumba Samuels (second season)
Lumumba Samuels is entering his second season as assistant coach at Carleton College. In addition to on-court duties, he serves as recruiting coordinator and prime strength and conditioning trainer. Samuels has coached youth, AAU, high school, and college basketball for over ten years.  He had two stints as the assistant women’s basketball coach and recruiting coordinator at Anoka-Ramsey Community College (Minn.) where he helped lead the Golden Rams to the NJCAA National Championship in 2007 and again in 2011. From 2008-2010 Samuels served as head varsity boys basketball coach at Christian Life School (Farmington) with a 42-6 campaign over that period while achieving the first Christian Athletic League Championship in the school’s 25-year history in 2010. Samuels owns Athletic Enhancement Services (AthEnS) where he trains youth to professional athletes. Samuels graduated from the University of Minnesota in 2001 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Sports Studies with emphasis in coaching. He resides in Farmington, Minn., with his wife, Holly, and their two children.

Assistant Coach Chris Kosiba (second season)
Chris Kosiba is entering his second season as assistant coach at Carleton College. Kosiba has over 10 years of collegiate coaching experience and is returning to coaching after three seasons away from the game. Kosiba was previously on the staff at NYU, where they captured two University Athletic Association (UAA) titles (2004, 2007), received three NCAA Tournament berths (2004, 2006, 2007),made two Sweet Sixteen appearances (2004, 2007),earned one trip to the Final Four (2007), and posted an impressive  91-21 record (.812) during his time. He was also part of coaching staff that received Coaching Staff of the Year honors from the UAA following the 2004 and 2007 seasons. Kosiba’s other coaching experiences have been as the head women’s basketball coach at Hilbert College during the 2001-02 season, assistant women’s basketball coach at Guilford College from 1999-2001, where he helped lead the Quaker’s to an Old Dominion Athletic Conference Championship and to a second-round appearance in the NCAA Tournament. He also served as an assistant coach at Western Illinois University from 1997-99.

Kosiba works as a sports agent for Meister Sports Management, representing professional athletes in golf and baseball.  Kosiba graduated from Guilford College in 1997 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Exercise Sports Science and was a 4-year men’s basketball player.  He resides in Burnsville, Minn., with his wife, Cassie, who is the head coach of Carleton Women’s Basketball.