Field Hockey, Lacrosse
Favorite athlete: Michael Jordan
Favorite team: Eagles
Favorite memory competing in sports: Celebrating my 100-goal milestone
Funniest thing that has happened while competing in sports: When my friend ran into our coach at field hockey and gave her a bloody nose
Music on playlist: Queen’s greatest hits
Future plans: Attend Holy Family University, major in early education, become an elementary school teacher, and travel
Favorite motto: “It’s not the fall that matters, it’s how you get back up”
One goal before turning 30: Sky dive
One thing people don’t know about me: My lucky number is 14
By Mary Jane Souder
Catherine Scott would be the first to admit she didn’t know a whole lot about the girls’ lacrosse program at Quakertown when she took over the helm prior to the start of the 2024-25 season. She does, however, remember her very first open practice and the very first drill she ran her players through.
Casey Rosenberger – then a junior – caught her eye immediately
“It was just a little stickwork drill, and she was one of the few that not only could I tell the type of player she was right away, but also just the skill she had immediately stood out to me,” Scott said. “We did a little
conditioning that first day too, and she could run.
“Not only could she do those things well, but she led throughout it, and she was a great motivator. She was definitely one to take the team on her back, and I noticed that right away, which was super great because I didn’t know much about the program or anything about any of the players, so it was great that she had that natural leadership and natural ability.”
Rosenberger was an easy choice for junior captain, and she also was captain her final high school season just completed. It’s a role she fell into effortlessly.
“She’s a vocal leader, but even more so, she leads by example in the sense that if we’re doing a drill and it’s a very competitive drill or if it’s something new – she’s the one to help those girls who might not know what’s going on, take them to the back of the line and say, ‘Hey, if that doesn’t make sense, let me show you another way to do it,’” Scott said. “She’s a great balance of being vocal and then saying, ‘You go against me, and then I can show you’ – really putting it into play. And she’s definitely someone who leads by example as well.”
Rosenberger carried that leadership role to the hockey field where she also was a captain of the team last fall
“Her athletic skills are nothing short of incredible, characterized by explosive speed and a high athletic IQ that allows her to dominate on both the field hockey and lacrosse fields,” Quakertown hockey coach Peach Draper said. “Beyond her physical strength, Casey is a supportive teammate who leads by example and consistently fosters a positive competitive environment for everyone around her.”
The early days
Rosenberger comes from a family where sports are a natural part of life. Her father, Robert Rosenberger, played college football at Temple University and went on to coach at the high school level. Her three older siblings also played sports with basketball the sport of their choice.
Casey got her start in sports playing basketball as well as flag football and lacrosse. Basketball left the picture for her in eighth grade.
Lacrosse – which she began playing in first grade - is the one that stuck.
“Just being around sports for so long and watching my older sister play lacrosse made me want to play because I always looked up to her,” Casey said. “I had played a lot of basketball and kind of got sick of it.
“I grew up playing lacrosse as my second sport, kind of in the background of basketball. So, once I quit basketball, I decided to focus on lacrosse.”
Rosenberger joined the club lacrosse circuit, initially playing for Ultimate and, more recently, Team 11 out of Doylestown.
Field hockey entered the picture when she was in middle school and became Rosenberger’s second love when it came to sports.
“I realized I could have some potential playing field hockey, but doing two club sports would have been too much, and I just always leaned more towards lacrosse, so I stuck with that,” she said. “Even with that, I still did extra workouts with field hockey, and my middle school coach became my high school coach senior year, so that was kind of a full circle moment. She helped me a lot through field hockey.”
In field hockey, Rosenberger was a three-year varsity player. In lacrosse, she immediately earned a spot on the varsity as a freshman.
“I was very nervous,” she said. “I don’t know if it was because I was a freshman, but I felt like our team was divided and not really together as one team, and that kind of held us back from playing together. As the years
have gone on, our team has had really good chemistry.”
Rosenberger has had three coaches in four years. Taylor O’Brien had a one-year head coaching stint when Rosenberger was a sophomore, and the past two years the lacrosse team has been under the leadership of Scott. Both had played collegiate lacrosse, O’Brien at West Chester and Scott at Widener.
“It was the first time having a coach that played in college,” Rosenberger said. “(Coach O’Brien) played at West Chester, and she was on one of their championship teams. She kind of opened up the eyes of some of the older girls and gave them more information they didn’t really know about.
“Coach Scott also was an experienced player, and even though it was her first year coaching last year, she really, really rebuilt our program a lot from the ground up. Having her coach the young girls that just came in is helping our team so much more for the future. She honestly has been such a blessing to our team. She has pushed us through so much and pushes us to be better all the time.”
As a junior, Rosenberger surpassed the 100-career-goal mark and entered her senior year with 112 goals. She finished a stellar four-year varsity career with 175 goals, and although stats were unavailable for other categories, Scott acknowledged that Rosenberger’s impact doesn’t begin and end with goals scored.
“She’s had numerous, numerous draw controls,” Scott said. “She was a midfielder through and through.
“She was a great threat on defense intercepting and having a lot of caused turnovers and then taking it down on attack and having a twizzler goal of some sort. She was our one-woman wrecking crew at times, for sure.”
Whatever her role on the field, Rosenberger was an undisputed leader and took her role of captain seriously.
“Just keeping positive all throughout the season has been a big thing for our team because the end stretch of the year is always the roughest part,” she said. “With school, academics and going to lacrosse after a long school day - just keeping lacrosse a positive environment and being excited to go after school.”
Rosenberger was one of just two seniors on this year’s team and sharing that distinction with her best friend on and off the field – Kayla Byers – has been significant.
“She really has guided me through these four years, and we always stuck by each other even when it was just us two,” Rosenberger said.
And in case she had any spare time, Rosenberger participated in both indoor track last winter and outdoor track this spring.
“I run the 800 for indoor and then sometimes they’ll do the 4x800,” she said. “For outdoor, I try to make as many meets as I can with lacrosse going on, so I’ve missed a practice here and there to go to a meet, but I was
still conditioning, so it was fine.”
A look at the future
Rosenberger’s lacrosse playing days are far from over. She will continue her lacrosse career at the Division 2 level at Holy Family University, choosing the Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference (CACC) school from a final list that also included Albright, Edinboro and Old Dominion.
“The hardest part was between Albright and Holy Family,” she said. “Albright was Division 3, and it felt so like home to me, but I wanted to compete at a higher level with Holy Family, and the girls on the team were so welcoming there. The coach was very interested in me.”
Rosenberger – just as she had when Scott took over the program - made an immediate impression.
“I went to Holy Family’s clinic, and the first time watching me play the sport, they offered me, and that really made me happy because most of the schools I talked to were not as straightforward,” Rosenberger said. “It was good to have that honesty and straightforwardness.”
At Holy Family, Rosenberger will be majoring in early childhood education/
“I want to teach K through third grade,” she said. “My dad is a teacher, and I never really thought about becoming a teacher until the beginning of this year.
“It kind of just fell into my arms because I was doing a field study for fourth grade because I knew a teacher in elementary school, and I was like – ‘I’m not really sure what I want to do, maybe I’ll try teaching.’
“I actually turned out to love it so much, and then I took a teaching class, which is a full year course. I go into a kindergarten class every Tuesday and Thursday and I work with them all day. It’s so much fun. I love it.”
Listening to her coaches tell it, Holy Family is inheriting a special student-athlete.
“She has a great personality, she’s witty, and she loves the social aspect of sports, but also she loves the competitiveness,” Scott said. “She loves to work hard. She is deeply admired by her peers, and she has a very contagious energy.
“She is very, very good at her age of understanding and knowing that – ‘Hey even if I am not having the best day, I’m going to do those little things right to really uplift everyone else and make it a good day. ‘”
Added Draper, “Casey is a selfless and supportive teammate who leads by example and consistently fosters a positive competitive environment for everyone around her. I will miss her so much.”
