College of Saint Benedict

Jon Roesch is in his first year as assistant athletic director at Saint Benedict.

Roesch, of Sauk Rapids, Minn., assists Anderson Diercks in providing strategic direction and administrative oversight of CSB Athletics. He serves as a member of the department's leadership team while being tasked with various administration responsibilities. In this role, Roesch oversees athletic training, strength and conditioning, athletic media relations, game day operations as well as campus recreation, club sports and concessions. He participates in athletic department fundraisers, oversees student-athlete programming, and serves as advisor for the student-athlete advisory committee.
 
Roesch joins CSB after service as a mathematics teacher and coach at Sauk Rapids-Rice High School since 2001 where he was also involved in administration duties, including budgeting, chairing search committees, and supervising and mentoring student teachers and practicum students.
 
While at Sauk Rapids, he served in various coaching roles, including head girls' basketball coach from 2018-23, weight room supervisor and head boys' basketball coach.
 
A former St. Cloud State University assistant men's basketball coach (2011-18), he served as a mathematics teacher, head boys basketball coach and assistant football coach at Montgomery-Lonsdale High School in Montgomery, Minn., from 1997-2001. Roesch was mathematics teacher and both an assistant boys' basketball and assistant varsity football coach at Harris-Lake Park Community Schools in Lake Park, Iowa in 1993-97.
 
Roesch earned a Bachelor of Science degree in mathematics from the University of Minnesota-Morris in 1993 before later receiving his Master of Arts degree in kinesiology (sports management) from the University of Minnesota-Twins Cities in 2002.
 
He is a past member of the Minnesota Basketball Coach Association Board of Directors and has been the 3A Boys Basketball of Coach of the Year in 2002-03 when he was also the Boys Basketball Section 8-3A Coach of the Year and the Central Lakes Conference Coach of the Year. He was also the Minnesota River Conference Coach of the Year in 1999-2000. Roesch has been awarded the Principal's Award at Sauk Rapids-Rice High School. Additionally, he has been a member of the Minnesota State High School Coaches Association, Minnesota Council of Teachers of Mathematics, past president of the Minnesota Basketball Coaches Association, and member of the Minnesota Girls Basketball Association while serving as an advisor for Lead Connections.