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Coaching Staff
Chris Orr
Head Coach chris.orr@district196.org
Chris Orr - Head Coach
Coach Orr is entering his 1st season as head coach of the Rosemount Irish Girls Varsity Basketball team. Orr served as an assistant coach for the boys program at Rosemount High School for the last 9 years.
Orr is a 2001 graduate of Rosemount High School. He is a graduate of the University of Minnesota, where he earned his Master’s degree in teaching Physical Education in 2007. He also received his Health degree from Bemidji State University in 2009. Coach Orr is going into his 6th year of teaching Physical Education and Health at Cyber Village Academy, a public charter school grades 3-12 in Saint Paul. Coach Orr currently resides in Rosemount with his Wife Amber and daughter Ella (1).
Darcy Holle – Varsity Assistant
Coach Darcy Holle joins the Rosemount Staff after 4 years as an Assistant coach at Eastview High School. Holle currently works for St Paul Public Schools as a Program Assistant for the 21st Century After School Program.
Holle is a Rosemount native, Graduated from Eastview High school in 2001. Then went on to UW-River Falls where she played basketball and earned a degree in Exercise Science. On the court she earned All WIAC honors and was also team captain.
Darcy, her husband Dan and daughter Payton reside in Rosemount.
Molly Anderson – Junior Varsity/Varisty Assistant
Molly Anderson is in her first season as a coach in the Rosemount Girls Basketball Program. Previously she was a two year graduate assistant coach at Winona State University. In Anderson's first season on the bench Winona State posted a 21-7 record and won the NSIC Tournament title while advancing to the NCAA Division II Tournament.
A four-year player at Winona State, Anderson helped the team post the best record in school history and reach the NCAA postseason for the first time. She was an all-conference and all-academic honoree in her time as a Warrior as well.
Anderson led the NSIC in assists as a senior, passing out 6.03 assists per game. She led Winona State in assists, rebounds and steals during both her junior and senior seasons.
Anderson graduated from Winona State with her Master's in Education Leadership and Sports Management in 2012 and previously with a degree in Business Education in Dec. 2009.
Anderson is a native of Eau Claire, WI and a graduate of Eau Claire North High School.
Gretchen Stramel - 10th Grade Coach/Varisty Assistant
Coach Gretchen Stramel joins the Irish for her first season as a Girls Basketball Coach. For the past 7 seasons Gretchen has coached JV Girls Soccer at Rosemount and works year round as CrossFit trainer in Apple Valley.
A 1997 graduate of Rosemount High School where she played soccer, basketball and softball, Gretchen went on to the University of St. Thomas where she played 4 years of collegiate soccer and earned degrees in Education and Communication.
During Gretchen’s nine years as an English and literature teacher she spent 3 years as the Assistant Women’s Soccer Coach at the University of St. Thomas and 5 years as a girls and boys middle school basketball coach at Nativity of Lord in St. Paul.
Gretchen, her husband and three children live in the community.
Kiley Heitkamp: Student Manager
Kyle Brown: Student Manager
