Pedro Garcia Rosado joined the Washington State coaching staff in spring 2024 ,following David Riley from Eastern Washington. In 2025-26, Garcia Rosado’s second season coaching the Cougars, the offense continued to leave its mark in the record books. The team made 303 total 3-pointers, the fourth most in program history, which contributed to the seventh-largest point total in program history. The Cougs averaged 76.1 points per game, slotting in just behind Garcia Rosado’s first season at fourth highest in program history. In both seasons with WSU, Garcia Rosado has developed a freshman into earning All-WCC Freshman Team honors, with standout guard Ace Glass being named to the team in 2025-26 after forward Tomas Thrastarson took home the same honor 2024-25.
In 2024-25, his first season on the Palouse, Garcia Rosado helped WSU secure a 19-15 record and a postseason berth to the inaugural College Basketball Crown. The selection marked a third postseason in four seasons for Garcia Rosado and Riley, and fourth-consecutive postseason for the Washington State Cougs.
Garcia Rosado previously spent three seasons with the EWU men’s basketball staff, joining in 2021-22 as the director of operations. He was named assistant coach prior to the 2022-23 season and brings a wealth of international basketball coaching and playing experience to Pullman.
Garcia Rosado began coaching in August of 2006, where he was the head boys and girl’s basketball coach for the Unicaja Basketball Academy for four years. He then moved to England, where he held assistant and head coaching roles for the Leeds Carnegie Basketball University. From August 2011 to June 2012, he was the U-18 assistant coach for the Club Baloncesto Unicaja in Spain before becoming the head coach for the Huddersfield Heat in England.
Garcia Rosado has also had stints as the assistant and head coach for the Canarias Basketball Academy, the Reading Rockets, John Madejski Academy and the England National team.
Prior to arriving in Cheney, he worked in Valencia, Spain from August 2017 to January 2019 where he was the head coach for the CB Claret while also serving as the assistant coach for the U-18 Al-Qazeres team. He also made one last stop in Hofn, Iceland where he was the head coach for UMF Sindri.
Rosado graduated from San Jose College in Malaga, Spain with a business administration and management degree in 2011. He received his MBA in Sport Management from IESPORT online, and another bachelor’s degree in business management in sport from Open University in June of 2020.