ROIGER NAMED SAINT WOMEN’S COACH

June 22: Dan Roiger head women’s basketball coach at Northland (WI) College for the last five years, has been named head women’s basketball coach at St. Lawrence University.

Roiger, the 2007 and 2009 Upper Midwest Athletic Conference Coach of the Year, replaces Jennifer Kroll, who was named the head women’s coach at Wellesley College in March.

“We are very pleased to announce the appointment of Dan Roiger as our head women’s basketball coach,” said St. Lawrence athletic director Margie Strait. “He and his teams have met with considerable success both on the court and in the classroom and we feel he will be an excellent fit here at St. Lawrence.”

Roiger guided his Northland team to the conference regular season and tournament championships this past season and the 19 wins his team registered were the third most in program history. He had a 32-10 conference record in the last three seasons and the team was first or second in each of those three seasons. In addition to on-court success, his teams have been outstanding in the classroom, earning a Top 25 Academic Award from the Women’s Basketball Coaches Association in 2007-08.

He became head coach at Northland in 2004 after serving as an assistant women’s coach at Carleton College from 2002-04. He was assistant men’s coach at Carleton from 1998-2001 and was a successful high school coach at Northfield High School, coaching basketball, softball and baseball.

A graduate of the University of Wisconsin at Madison, he earned his master’s degree at Madison and also earned a BA in education from Mankato State University. A native of Wausau, WI, he also served as an assistant athletic director at Northland.

Rogier inherits a Saint program which has made three straight NCAA tournament appearances and has played in eight NCAA tournaments since 1998.

SISCHO RETURNS AS ASSISTANT COACH

Lauren Sischo, a four-year member of both the women’s basketball team and women’s soccer team at St. Lawrence University will return to her alma mater as assistant women’s basketball coach, joining the staff of new head coach Dan Roiger.

Sischo is a May graduate of St. Lawrence and earned the Saints’ Outstanding Senior Scholar-Athlete Award among her may senior honors. A member of Phi Beta Kappa academic honorary, she was a Summa Cum Laude graduate majoring in chemistry. She was the Northern New York American Chemical Society Outstanding Senior Award winner, named to Who’s Who Among Students in American Colleges and Universities and named the Omicron Delta Kappa Circle Leader of the Year Award winner all in the spring of her senior year.

She was captain of the basketball team which made its third straight NCAA tournament appearance in 2008-09 and was a second team all league selection. She was a two-year captain of the women’s soccer team and a three-time all league selection in that sport. She also earned D3Kicks.com all region honors and was named to the NYSWCAA All State team in soccer in 2007.

She also served as co-president of the InterVarsity Christian Fellowship and was secretary of the Student Athlete Advisory Committee from 2007-09. She was the Ronal C. Hoffmann First-Year Scholar Athlete Award winner in 2006, was Liberty League All Academic in both basketball and soccer in each of her three eligible seasons and was an ESPN The Magazine Academic All District selection in soccer in the fall of 2008.