Women's Basketball

Head Coach Jamie Sale

Phone: 712-274-5474

E-Mail: sale@morningside.edu

In his seven years at Morningside, Jamie Sale has established himself as one of the elite coaches in the nation while raising the Mustangs’ women’s basketball program to national prominence.

Sale was named the 2004 and 2005 NAIA Division II National Coach of the Year after guiding the Mustangs to national championships both seasons. He led the Mustangs to a 34-4 record in 2003-04 and the school's first-ever national title in a team sport when Morningside defeated Cedarville University 87-74 in the Championship Game of the 2004 NAIA Division II National Tournament. Sale guided Morningside to a second consecutive national crown in 2005 when the Mustangs knocked off No. 1-ranked Cedarville 75-65 in the NAIA Division II National Tournament Championship Game to cap a 35-3 season.

Sale has compiled a 175-65 record for a .729 winning percentage at Morningside. He has guided the Mustangs to six consecutive NAIA Division II National Tournament appearances, a school-record five consecutive 20-win seasons, and four consecutive Great Plains Athletic Conference (GPAC) regular season championships. His teams have produced the five highest single-season victory totals in school history. His 2005-06 Morningside team won the GPAC's post-season tournament and was the GPAC regular season co-champion with Hastings College to become the first team in league history to win both titles in the same season. Sale was named the 2007-08 GPAC Coach of the Year after his Mustangs set a school record with a 27-game winning streak and captured the GPAC regular season title with a perfect 18-0 record.

He was the 2004 recipient of the Paul Maaske Memorial Award presented by the Iowa Basketball Coaches Association. The award is presented each year to a non-Division I collegiate coach in Iowa in honor of the former long-time coach at Cornell College.

The transformation of the Morningside women’s basketball program has been remarkable since Sale’s arrival. After inheriting a team that had produced a combined total of only five victories over the previous two seasons, Sale led Morningside to a 7-19 record in his first season at the helm, followed by a 17-16 record the next year for the school’s first winning season since the 1992-93 campaign. Morningside also qualified for the NAIA Division II National Tournament that season for the school’s first national tourney appearance since 1986.

Sale has brought a crowd pleasing style of basketball to Morningside that features tenacious full-court defensive pressure and a high scoring offensive attack featuring the most potent 3-point shooting attack in NAIA history.

The Mustangs averaged a school-record 87.6 points per game in 2003-04 and made a NAIA Division II record 400 3-point field goals to shatter the previous national record of 311 3-pointers by Bethel College in 2001-02. The Mustangs made a NAIA Division II National Tournament record 17 3-pointers in their championship game victory against Cedarville.

Defensively, the Mustangs came up with a school-record 675 steals in 2003-04 season and pressured their opponents into an average of 27.4 turnovers per game.

Sale has a 254-85 career record for a .749 winning percentage in 10 seasons as a collegiate head coach. Nine of his 10 teams have qualified for the NAIA National Tournament.

Sale was named the seventh head coach in the history of Morningside’s women’s basketball program on March 26, 2001, following a distinguished career at Briar Cliff University. Sale was one of the nation’s most successful women’s basketball coaches during his three seasons as head coach at Briar Cliff, where he compiled a 79-20 record for a .798 winning percentage and led the Chargers to three Sweet 16 or higher finishes at the NAIA Division II National Tournament. His .798 career winning percentage at Briar Cliff is a school record.

Sale is a 1995 graduate of the University of Nebraska.

Assistant Coach Jill Rosenmeyer

Phone: 712-274-5286

E-Mail: rosenmeyer@morningside.edu

Jill Rosenmeyer will be in her seventh season as a Morningside assistant coach during the 2007-08 campaign.

She joined the Mustangs' coaching staff following a highly successful playing career at Briar Cliff University, where she graduated in 2001 as the sixth leading rebounder and eighth leading scorer in school history with 815 career rebounds and 1,559 career points, respectively.

Rosenmeyer led the Chargers in scoring (16.3 ppg) and rebounding (7.4 rpg) as a senior en route to second-team NAIA Division II All-America honors. Rosenmeyer also received all-tournament honors at the 2001 NAIA Division II National Tournament after she averaged 23 points and nine rebounds per game.

Rosenmeyer is a 1997 graduate of Algona Garrigan High School, where she earned Iowa Newspaper Association second-team Class 2A all-state honors as a senior.