Reinitz Named to Rutgers Women's Basketball Staff
Jul 01 | Women's Basketball
PISCATAWAY, NJ – Josh Reinitz has been named the Rutgers director of women’s basketball operations, head coach C. Vivian Stringer has announced.
“We are tremendously excited to have Josh join our staff,” said Stringer. “Even though he has been working in a law firm and trying cases in court, Josh has continued to demonstrate his love and support of our program. We are truly blessed to have a person with his accomplishments as a lawyer, a Rutgers graduate, a former student manager and graduate manager now rejoining our staff as the director of operations. It’s like our family has been reunited.”
Reinitz, a 1999 graduate of Rutgers with a bachelor’s in administration of justice, has been involved with the RU women’s basketball program since the 1995-96 season, when he served as a freshman student manager. Following four seasons as a student manager (1995-99), including three as the head manager, Reinitz was named the program’s graduate manager, a role he maintained for three seasons (1999-2002), during which time he was responsible for coordinating tape breakdown, community outreach programs and the student managers, and assisting with the C. Vivian Stringer Basketball Camp, serving as the co-director in 2000.
While a graduate manager, Reinitz also attended the Rutgers School of Law in Newark, NJ, completing his studies in May of 2003. He served as a law clerk at Tressler, Soderstrom, Maloney & Priess in Newark (2002-2003) and for the Honorable Eugene H. Austin, J.S.C., of the Superior Court of New Jersey in Hackensack (2003-2004). Most recently, he has worked as an associate litigation attorney at Rothstein, Mandell, Strohm, Must & Gertner in Lakewood (2004-2005). While working in the legal field, Reinitz has continued to remain involved with the Rutgers program.
“I’m really excited to be back home at Rutgers,” said Reinitz. “I’m looking forward to working with Coach Stringer and this great staff, and it’s an honor to be a part of a program that is competing at the highest level of the game.”
Rutgers posted a 28-7 overall record and a 14-2 mark in BIG EAST Conference play last season, winning its first outright BIG EAST regular-season title and advancing to its second consecutive BIG EAST Tournament championship game. The Scarlet Knights advanced to the Elite Eight of the 2005 NCAA Tournament.
