Roussell Named to 2026 Kathy Delaney-Smith Mid-Major Coach of the Year Preseason Watch List

RICHMOND, Va. — University of Richmond girls’s basketball head coach Aaron Roussell has been named to the 2026 Kathy Delaney-Smith Mid-Major Coach of the Year Preseason Watch List for the second-straight season, Her Hoop Stats introduced on Wednesday.

The honor acknowledges 20 coaches from 13 conferences throughout Division I girls’s basketball who’ve demonstrated excellence main mid-major applications. Roussell, who enters his seventh season on the helm of the Spiders in 2025-26, was the 2025 recipient of the award following a historic marketing campaign that noticed Richmond seize its second straight Atlantic 10 common season title and earn this system’s first NCAA Tournament victory.

Under Roussell’s path, the Spiders completed 28-7 general and 17-1 in Atlantic 10 play final season, setting a program document with a 17-game profitable streak. Richmond went 12-2 at house, 11-1 on the street and 5-4 at impartial websites whereas amassing marquee wins over Fairfield, Oklahoma State and Columbia. The Spiders defeated No. 9 Georgia Tech within the first spherical of the NCAA Tournament earlier than falling in a detailed second-round matchup at No. 1 UCLA.

Roussell was named Atlantic 10 Coach of the Year for the second consecutive season, together with incomes ECAC Coach of the Year and the 2025 Kathy Delaney-Smith Mid-Major Coach of the Year honors. His 2024-25 squad ranked among the many nation’s prime 25 in each field-goal and three-point proportion whereas ending as one among solely three mid-majors to finish the season within the prime 75 of the NCAA NET rankings and win a sport within the NCAA Tournament.

Now in his twenty second season as a head coach, Roussell owns a profession document of 434-186 (.696) and has led applications at Richmond, Bucknell and the University of Chicago. He has guided the Spiders to 122 wins over six seasons, together with three straight 20-win campaigns and back-to-back Atlantic 10 titles for the primary time in program historical past.

Her Hoop Stats will slim the 20-person preseason listing to 10 coaches in January, earlier than naming 5 finalists in March and saying the 2026 winner across the Final Four.