John Rosseth

John Rosseth (Posthumous) - (Teacher/Coach)

• John taught 12th grade Social Studies at both Bloomington Kennedy from 1966-1970 and at Bloomington Jefferson from 1970 until his retirement in 1997.  

• In addition to teaching, John was active coaching girls basketball (1974-1979) and boys golf (1970-2007) at Jefferson.  

• His top accomplishments included being an assistant coach on the 1978 undefeated Girls Basketball State Championship team as well as leading his boys golf teams to 4 state tournament appearances and qualifying 31 of his golfers to the state tournament.  

• In addition to coaching at Jefferson, John was active coaching his own kids in BAA basketball, baseball and softball along with both the boys and girls traveling basketball program.  

• Lastly, he spent 15 years as the Dwan Junior League summer golf coach.   

• John passed away unexpectedly in July, 2017.