Coaching & Support Staff Tom
GARRICK Associate Head Coach Fifth Season Tom Garrick, a former Head Coach at the University of Rhode Island, joined Vanderbilt’s staff as an assistant coach in the summer of 2009 and was promoted to associate head coach in 2013. Garrick focuses on working with the team’s guards, and his impact has been impressive, to say the least. This year, his development will be in the forefront as the team’s lone seniors, Jasmine Lister and Christina Foggie, are both guards who have already surpassed 1,000 career points at Vanderbilt and combined for 7.5 assists per game in 2012-13. In his first year with the Commodores, Garrick helped Vanderbilt advance to the second round of the NCAA Tournament, and also played a role in Vanderbilt ranking second in the SEC in field-goal percentage and three-point field-goal percentage. In 2010-11, Garrick helped Jence Rhoads earn honorable mention AllAmerica honors and first team All-SEC. He was also vital in the development of freshmen Jasmine Lister and Christina Foggie. Lister earned SEC All-Freshman honors at point guard. The progress was even more noticeable in 2011-12, as Foggie averaged 17.7 points per game to lead the SEC in scoring and earn First Team All-SEC Honors. Lister led the conference in assists (5.3 per game) and was a second team honoree, while Kady Schrann averaged 6.7 points per game and earned SEC All-Freshman honors.
Kim
ROSAMOND Assistant Coach Seventh Season
Kim Rosamond is entering her seventh season at Vanderbilt as assistant coach and recruiting coordinator for Melanie Balcomb’s Commodores. Hired before the 2007-08 season Rosamond brought 10 years of SEC experience as a player and coach with her to Vanderbilt, in addition to two season spent locally at Middle Tennessee State. Rosamond coordinates Vanderbilt’s recruiting efforts while also contributing to every facet of scouting, player development and on-court strategy. Rosamond’s impact in recruiting was felt almost immediately. Since 2009, she has been instrumental in the Commodores bringing in recruiting classes that were ranked among the nation’s best by numerous reporting services. Her most recent effort may have been one of the best yet, as the three-player freshman class is ranked as high as eighth nationally. The top-ranked recruit is Minnesota native Rebekah Dahlman, who became the first player in state history to score over 5,000 career points while earning player of the year honors from both Gatorade and the Associated Press. She is not the only player of the year in the class, as Marqu’es Webb picked-up Gatorade Player of the Year and Miss Basketball honors in Alabama. The Hoover, Ala., native helped Hoover High to its second-straight state title as a senior. The class is rounded out by Kylee Smith, who led Alpharetta (Ga.) High School to the state quarterfinals for the first time in school history and became the first female in school history to surpass 2,000 career points. The six-member 2012-13 freshman class earned a top-25 ranking from ESPN HoopGurlz, while including two top-100 ESPN players in Morgan Batey and Jasmine Jenkins, while Kristen Gaffney and Heather Bowe were each named Associated Press Players of the Year in North Carolina and Wisconsin, respectively.
Before arriving at Vanderbilt, Garrick spent the previous 11 years coaching at his alma mater, including 2005-09 as the head coach of the Rams’ women’s basketball team. “Tom brings an exceptional wealth of knowledge with him to our program,” Balcomb said. “I know Tom’s vast experience - as both a player and a coach will be an invaluable asset to our program.” Garrick began his coaching career as an assistant for the Rhode Island men’s team in 1998-99, helping the Rams win the Atlantic-10 Championship in his first year. In 2001, he moved over to the women’s side to work under Head Coach Boe Pearman. When Pearman took a leave of absence in 2004, Garrick was named the acting head coach. He would take an assistant coaching position at the University of Virginia that spring before returning to Rhode Island in August to become the school’s sixth head coach. An outstanding player at Rhode Island, Garrick was drafted by the Los Angeles Clippers in 1988 and played in the NBA for four seasons, including stints in San Antonio, Minnesota and Dallas. Garrick’s professional career also took the “Ocean State” native overseas to play in Germany, Turkey and Spain during a five-year span. Garrick earned a bachelor’s degree in communications from Rhode Island, where he was a four-year letterwinner for the men’s basketball team. Nicknamed “the Chief,” he led the 1988 squad to the Sweet 16, while compiling a program-best 28-7 record. Garrick still ranks among the school’s all-time Top 10 in scoring (1,573 points) steals (189) and assists (407), and was inducted into the URI Athletic Hall of Fame in 1998. During his prep career, Garrick was a two-time all-state basketball player for West Warwick (R.I.) High School, while also excelling in football.
Gaffney and Bowe also picked up Parade All-America honors. In each of the last three seasons, two players Rosamond helped bring to Vanderbilt earned SEC All-Freshman honors. In 2010 it was Elan Brown and Tiffany Clarke and in 2011 it was Stephanie Holzer (redshirt) and Jasmine Lister, while Kady Schrann made the list in 2012. “Kim has come in and made recruiting a full-time job,” Balcomb said. “She is really helping us get ahead on the recruiting front, and get after that next-level talent. Kim is high energy and takes a great deal of pride in her job. On top of doing a tremendous amount of relationship-building for us, Kim has an outstanding knowledge of the game of basketball.” At MTSU, Rosamond was hired by Stephany Smith in 2003 as an assistant coach. She would serve as the interim head coach when Smith left in 2005. During her tenure in Murfreesboro, the Lady Raiders boasted consecutive 24-win seasons while capturing a pair of Sun Belt Conference championships and scoring two first-round NCAA Tournament upsets (over North Carolina and North Carolina State, respectively). Prior to her time at MTSU, Rosamond spent five years as an assistant at her alma mater, Ole Miss. She was hired onto Coach Ron Aldy’s staff in 1998 just months after graduating and would be promoted to recruiting coordinator in 2001. Rosamond was responsible for bringing a pair top-50 classes to Oxford. Two Tennessee Miss Basketball selections were included in her Lady Rebel classes, with her final group of signees -- highlighted by All-American Armintie Price -having reached the NCAA Elite Eight in 2007. Rosamond attended high school at Winston Academy in Louisville, Miss., where she was recruited to Ole Miss by Van Chancellor. She was a four-year letterwinner for the Lady Rebels (1995-98). Following her senior year, Rosamond was the recipient of the team’s Lady Rebel Award, which is given to the player who excels on and off the court. As a student-athlete at Ole Miss, Rosamond was the first Lady Rebel to earn All-SEC Academic honors in all four years of her collegiate career. After serving as the Interim Head Coach at MTSU following the 2005 season, Rosamond worked in the private sector prior to coming to Vanderbilt.
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