Jenna Cosgrove begins her eighth season as the head women's basketball coach at Rhode Island College. She owns an 159-49 (.764) career record.
In eight seasons guiding the Anchorwomen, Cosgrove has five Little East Conference Regular Season Championships, four Little East Tournament titles, has been named the LEC's Coach of the Year four times and been named the Region II Coach of the Year twice. She has been named a finalist to receive the Women's Basketball Coaches Association's (WBCA) National Coach of the Year award twice. Additionally, the Anchorwomen have four 20-win seasons, three NCAA Tournament appearances, one NCAA Final Four, two NCAA Sweet 16 appearances, two Little East Rookies of the Year and two Players and Defensive Players of the Year. RIC is 110-18 over the past five seasons.
This past winter, the Anchorwomen won the program's fifth consecutive LEC Regular Season title. Senior guard Madison Medbury was named the Little East Woman of the Year, a D3hoops.com Fourth Team All-American, an NCAA Div. III Honorable Mention All-American by the Women's Basketball Coaches Association (WBCA), the D3hoops.com Region 2 Most Outstanding Player and First Team All-Region, Second Team All-Region by the New England Women's Basketball Association (NEWBA), the Little East Women's Basketball Player of the Year, Defensive Player of the Year, First Team All-Little East and to the league's All-Defensive Team. Senior forward Angelina Nardolillo also picked up First Team All-Little East honors and was tabbed to the league's All-Defensive team.
In 2023-24, Rhode Island College was one of the most dominant teams in the nation, with the Anchorwomen holding a ranking of No. 3 in the country for the majority of the season. RIC posted a 29-1 overall record, a perfect 16-0 mark in the Little East and captured the program's fourth consecutive Little East Regular Season and Tournament titles. She guided the Anchorwomen to the most wins and conference wins in a season in program history and the NCAA Div. III Championship's Sweet 16. She was named a finalist to receive the Women's Basketball Coaches Association's (WBCA) National Coach of the Year award, while being recognized as the D3hoops.com Region 2, New England Women's Basketball Association (NEWBA) and Little East Conference Coach of the Year on the season.
Graduate guard Sophia Guerrier and fifth-year forward Izabelle Booth were tabbed WBCA Honorable Mention All-Americans and joined fifth-year guard Jeniyah Jones and junior guard Madison Medbury on the D3hoops.com All-Region squads. Guerrier was a D3hoops.com All-American and was crowned with her second career Little East Player of the Year award. Jones was the Little East's Defensive Player of the Year. Guerrier, Booth, Jones, Medbury and junior forward Angelina Nardolillo each earned All-Little East honors.
In 2023, she led the Anchorwomen to program's best-ever season as Rhode Island College went 28-4, won the program's third consecutive Little East Regular Season and Tournament titles and reached NCAA Div. III Championship's Final Four for the first time in program history. During the Anchorwomen's run in the NCAA Tournament, Cosgrove's team's knocked off No. 3 Scranton, No. 12 Chicago and No. 10 Babson to advance to the National Semifinal. She was named a finalist to receive the Women's Basketball Coaches Association's (WBCA) National Coach of the Year award.
Senior forward Izabelle Booth was named First Team All-Litlte East, while sophomore frontcourt mate Angelina Nardolillo was tabbed Second Team All-LEC. Senior guard Jeniyah Jones and sophomore guard Madison Medbury were each named to the league's All-Defensive Team.
The Rhode Island College women's basketball team was voted into the top-10 of the final D3hoops.com and Women's Basketball Coaches Association (WBCA) polls for the 2022-23 season. The Anchorwomen were ranked fifth by D3hoops.com and seventh by the WBCA to end the 22-23 campaign. Cosgrove was named the Region II Coach of the Year, while Booth was named First Team All-Region II. Rhode Island College finished eighth in the country (Div. III) rebounding margin and 21st in scoring defense. Nardolillo was selected by the National Committee to the NCAA five-player All-Tournament Team.
In 2022, Cosgrove led the Anchorwomen to a 23-6 overall record and a 15-1 (first place) mark in the Little East Conference. She led RIC to the program's second consecutive and fourth Little East Regular Season and Tournament Championship. She was named the LEC's Coach of the Year for the third time in her career. Freshman forward Angelina Nardolillo was tabbed the LEC's Rookie of the Year and was an All-Region selection by the New England Women's Basketball Association (NEWBA). Nardolillo and junior guard Antonia Corsinetti were named All-Little East, while junior guard Jeniyah Jones was an All-Defensive Team selection.
Despite extremely difficult circumstances in 2020-21, she led RIC to a perfect 11-0 record as the Anchorwomen claimed the program's third Little East Championship (2014, ’12). For her efforts, she was named the Little East Coach of the Year for the second straight campaign. Two of Cosgrove's players earned All-Little East and All-Region honors and senior guard Sophia Guerrier was named a D3hoops.com Third Team All-American to go along with LEC Player and Defensive Player of the Year accolades.
She led RIC to a 22-5 overall record and a 13-3 (second place) mark in the Little East in 2019-20. Cosgrove was named the Little East Coach of the Year as RIC reached the Little East Championship final for the first time in six years. The Anchorwomen posted the second-highest win total for a single season in program history. She also saw one student-athlete earn First Team All-Little East honors and three were selected to the Second Team.
Cosgrove led RIC to an 18-9 overall record in 2018-19 as the Anchorwomen reached the semifinals of the Little East Championship. The Anchorwomen had the LEC Defensive Player of the Year, one First Team All-LEC selection, the league's Rookie of the Year and one selection to the New England Women's Basketball Association's (NEWBA) All-Rookie Team. RIC led the Little East in scoring defense for the second consecutive season and was ranked 14th nationally.
She led the program on the road to recovery in her first season at the helm in 2017-18. The Anchorwomen posted a 9-17 overall record, improving the club's win total by four wins and posted the best start to a season (4-0) in nearly a decade.
Cosgrove came to Rhode Island College after spending the past seven seasons at Fordham University. She spent time both as an assistant coach and the director of basketball operations during her tenure at with the Rams.
During her tenure at Fordham, Cosgrove helped Head Coach Stephanie Gaitley transform the program into a national powerhouse. In the last seven years, the Rams have posted four 20-plus win seasons and reached the postseason four times. In her time at Fordham, the Rams posted a record of 120-76 and captured the lone Atlantic 10 Championship in school history in 2014 en route to the school’s first-ever NCAA Tournament bid. Fordham reached the second round of the WNIT in 2017.
In July of 2017, Cosgrove served as an assistant coach for the Team USA Open Women’s Basketball Team that captured the gold medal at the Maccabiah Games, the third-largest international sporting event in the world.
Prior to her time at Fordham, Cosgrove coached the AAU Mass Premier Team out of Foxboro, Mass. She also served as an assistant coach for the Sharon High School girls varsity team.
A native of Sharon, Mass., Cosgrove was a four-year student-athlete and captain of the Endicott women’s basketball team. She received her bachelor’s degree and coaching certification in Sport Management in 2009. She helped lead the Gulls to the finals of The Commonwealth Coast Conference Tournament in 2009 as the team recorded a school-record 23 victories.
Cosgrove received her master’s degree in educational leadership from Fordham in 2013.
