Liberty Del Rosario is in her third season as an assistant coach for the Winthrop basketball program.
Del Rosario came to Winthrop in 2012 from Eastern Michigan where she served for one year as an assistant coach and helped lead the Eagles to a Mid-American Conference West Division championship and a conference tournament championship. EMU ended its season with a 23-9 record and lost to South Carolina in the first round of the NCAA tournament.
Prior to Eastern Michigan, Del Rosario served as an assistant at Morgan State. In her first season at MSU, the Bears had a 17-15 record and finished second in the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference with a 10-6 mark. As a reward for their season-long efforts, the squad earned the program’s first-ever Division I postseason appearance with a trip to the Women’s National Invitational Tournament (WNIT).
Del Rosario spent four seasons on the sidelines at Cleveland State helping the program become a perennial contender in the Horizon League. She began as the team’s director of basketball operations (2006-2009) before being promoted to assistant coach for the 2009-2010 campaign. Del Rosario helped CSU return to the NCAA Tournament for the second time in three seasons in 2009-2010. Cleveland State went 19-14 overall, marking the third straight year the Vikings won 19 contests.
While at CSU, she coached Kailey Klein, the program’s all-time leading scorer with 2,140 points.
Del Rosario earned a B.A. in psychology from Notre Dame College in Euclid, OH and a Master’s of Education with emphasis in sport management from Cleveland State.
She began her coaching career with her alma mater in 2002. She spent five seasons as an assistant at Notre Dame College before moving on to Cleveland State.
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