In 2019-20, co-head assistant coach Josh Roosa completed his fifth season on the Mountaineers’ coaching staff.

Moving forward from a fourth consecutive SoCon regular-season title in 2018-19, Roosa helped lead an App State program that went 9-3 overall and had a school-record six NCAA qualifiers, including all four NCAA qualifiers who were products of North Carolina high schools.
 
With a dual meet winning percentage of .750 that ranked 14th nationally, App State led the country with four dual meet shutouts, was one of only three Division I teams with at least four conference champions and was one of only six teams that had all 10 starters finish the season with a winning record.

In his first four years in Boone, Roosa helped coach App State to four straight regular season titles in the Southern Conference. 

The 2018-19 team earned a share of the SoCon regular season title and sent four wrestlers to the NCAA Championships in Pittsburgh. The 2017-18 team also won the conference tournament to earn a sweep of SoCon titles, and four wrestlers competed at the NCAA Championships in Cleveland.

After going an undefeated 7-0 in Southern Conference action in 2016-17, the Mountaineers also sent four wrestlers to the NCAA Championships, where Denzel Dejournette would become the first App State wrestler since 2012 to be named an All-American.

The Mountaineers received their first national ranking in Roosa’s first year, only to be eclipsed in his second year with a No. 20 ranking in the USA Today/NWCA poll. The 2016 team swept the SoCon regular season and tournament titles. 

Individually, Roosa has helped coach the Black and Gold to 13 All-Southern Conference recognitions and two SoCon Wrestlers of the Year. The Mountaineers have also sent 16 wrestlers to the NCAA Championships.

Prior to Appalachian, Roosa spent a year as an assistant coach at Buffalo and enjoyed a very successful wrestling career at Bloomsburg University.

In his four years as a starter and team captain for the Huskies, Roosa was ranked in the Top 20 in all four years at 149 pounds. As a senior in 2013, Roosa finished third in the Eastern Wrestling League while leading his team to a third-place finish. Roosa qualified for the 2013 NCAA Championships along with earning All-America status at the University Nationals.

Roosa’s senior Huskie team won Bloomsburg’s first outright EWL dual meet title and finished the season ranked 14th in country.

Roosa graduated from Bloomsburg with a degree in communications. He is the son of Shelli and Mike of Danville, Pa. 

Roosa has two siblings, David and Michael. He currently resides in the High Country with his wife, Rachael, and they have one son, Joseph.