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Coaching Staff

IRISH BOYS BASKETBALL COACHING STAFF

Lance Walsten - Head Coach

Coach Walsten is in his 7th year as Varsity Coach for Rosemount. He played for John Oxton at Lakeville High School where he received All Conference Honors. After high school he played four years of basketball at St. Mary’s University in Winona receiving MIAC All Conference Honorable Mention. After college he returned to Lakeville to teach at McGuire Junior High and assist John Oxton for five years, going to state three years and winning the state title in 2013. He continued to teach at McGuire while being the head boys’ coach at Faribault High School for the past three years. Coach Walsten has also joined the RHS staff as a full-time social studies teacher.

Coach Walsten can be reached by email at Lance.Walsten@district196.org.

Joe Early - Varsity Assistant Coach

Coach Early enters his 9th season as a coach for the Irish, this year as the varsity assistant coach. Joe has many years of high school coaching experience, most recently on the staff at Winter High School and Osceola High School in WI. Joe is also a 4 year letter winner from Ripon College. Coach Early is in his third year as a Math Teacher at Rosemount High School. He currently resides in the Rosemount community with his wife, Lindsay; daughter, Keira and son, Simon.

Coach Early can be reached by email at Joseph.Early@district196.org.

John Scheevel - Junior Varsity Coach

Coach Scheevel has been a part of the Rosemount High School coaching staff on and off since 2017. He began his coaching career as an 8th-grade coach at Winona Middle School and a volunteer varsity coach at Winona Senior High School as he completed his degree at Winona State University. Upon completing his degree, he joined Coach Walsten in 2015 as the 10th-grade coach at Faribault High School for two years before making the jump to Rosemount with Walsten as the JV coach for the 2017-2018 season. He then spent two years as the Varsity Assistant at La Crosse Logan High School in La Crosse, WI before returning to Rosemount in 2020. Coach Scheevel is a 7th-grade health teacher at Century Middle School in Lakeville.

Coach Scheevel can be reached by email at john.scheevel@gmail.com.

Connor Bosch - Sophomore (B-Squad) Head Coach

Coach Bosch is in his first year coaching at Rosemount High School. Upon graduating from the University of Wisconsin – Madison, he began his coaching career as a traveling basketball coach. Connor has coached at the 9th grade, 10th grade, JV, and varsity level, most recently as a varsity assistant for White Bear Lake High School. Connor is in his second year as a math teacher at Rosemount High School.

Coach Scheevel can be reached by email at connor.bosch@district196.org.

Connor Armborst - Sophomore (B-Squad) Assistant Coach

Mitchell Olson - 9A Coach

Mitchell Olson in his first year of coaching basketball at Rosemount. He is a graduate of Rosemount High School (2012) where he played baseball and basketball, and is excited to be back after teaching stops in Eastern Montana and Chicago. Mitchell also teaches Social Studies at Rosemount along with coaching 9th grade baseball and lives in South Minneapolis with his wife Raevhann.

Coach Olson can be reached by email at mitchell.olson@district196.org.

Michael Dooney - 9B Coach

This is Michael Dooney's first year coaching basketball at Rosemount High School.  A graduate of Lakeville North High School, he has earned a trade degree from Minnesota State College Southeast and presently holds a role in Information Technology at Cemstone.  His passions are sports, business, and technology. In his free time, he plays pickleball, golf, recreation softball and basketball. 

Coach Dooney can be reached by email at mdoon23@gmail.com.