Head Coach Jenna Cosgrove

Coming off the most historic run in the history of Rhode Island College basketball, Coach Cosgrove led the Anchorwomen to the National Semi-Finals and fell one game short of a National Championship appearance. Cosgrove led her team to a program record 28 wins and upset the #3 team, #10 and #12 team in the nation to get to the Final Four teams in the country. The Anchorwomen finished with an overall record of 28-4 and won their 3rd consecutive Little East Conference Championship. Cosgrove was named the Region II Coach of the Year and was a nominee for the Division III National Coach of the Year.

Cosgrove’s team is now 62-10 over the last three seasons and the team heads into the 2023-2024 season ranked #5 in the D3Hoops poll and #7 in the WBCA national rankings.

For the 2021-2022 season, Cosgrove was named the Little East Women's Basketball Coach of the Year. It was the third straight season she received this award. Cosgrove has led the Anchorwomen to a 23-5 overall record and a 15-1 (first place) mark in the Little East. The Anchorwomen won the league's Regular Season Championship and captured the program's second consecutive and fourth Little East Tournament title by going 3-0 and downing No. 3-seeded UMass Dartmouth, 70-55, in the final on Feb. 26. Under her guidance, RIC has reached the finals of the Little East Championship in three consecutive seasons.

Despite extremely difficult circumstances in 2020-21, she led RIC to a perfect 11-0 record as the Anchorwomen claimed the program's third-ever 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.