Roos succeeds Miller at BGSU

Updated: Monday, 16 Apr 2012, 10:28 PM EDT
Published : Monday, 16 Apr 2012, 9:39 PM EDT

BOWLING GREEN, Ohio (WUPW) - Bowling Green State University has elevated women's assistant basketball coach Jennifer Roos to head coach, succeeding Curt Miller, the school announced Monday evening.

Roos as been a strong internal candidate for the position that was vacated by Miller in March.

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Miller left in March for the head coaching vacancy at Indiana.

Roos came to Bowling Green in July of 2001, and helped Miller return the Falcons to the top of the Mid-American Conference. BGSU has won least one MAC championship of some kind in each of the last eight seasons. The Falcons have captured eight-straight MAC divisional crowns, earning the league’s outright regular-season title in seven of those eight years, and the Falcons also have captured five MAC Tournament crowns and made eight consecutive national postseason appearances during that time.

A news conference announcing her official promotion is scheduled for Tuesday.