In 1982, the 49ers women's program left the AIAW for NCAA Division I, and Rose was named assistant athletic director.
[citation needed] Since her appointment as A.D., Rose added a full-time Compliance Officer, revamped the athletic academic advising program, hired a full-time strength and conditioning staff and developed a goals and objectives program for head coaches, administrative staff and student-athletes.
[1] Early in her administrative career, Rose pioneered the department's most successful fundraiser, the annual Great Gold Rush Auction.
[1] In her first year as director, the program left the Sun Belt Conference and joined the Metro Conference; the athletic department's D. L. Phillips Athletic Complex, home of the varsity baseball, soccer and softball fields were expanded and plans were finalized for the James H. Barnhardt Student Activity Center and Dale F. Halton Arena.
[1] The multi-purpose $26 million Barnhardt Student Activity Center (SAC) and the 9,105-seat Halton Arena hosted its first athletic contest December 2, 1996.
The Miltimore-Wallis Athletics Center, which is an addition to the SAC, was completed in December 2003 and in the summer of 2006, the 49ers broke ground on Robert and Mariam Hayes Stadium.
In March 2011 Rose hired the 49ers' first football coach, former Wake Forest Demon Deacons defensive coordinator Brad Lambert.
[2] With the addition of 63 more athletics scholarships for the football program, an offsetting amount of Title IX mandated women's sports will be added.
These will most likely include Field Hockey, Women's Lacrosse and Swimming; however, Rose has been an advocate of adding Competitive Cheerleading as a Title IX compliant sport.
In 1986, she became the first female inducted into the Blacksburg (SC) Hall of Fame and she received her 25-Year Service Award from UNC Charlotte in 2000.
More recently, she was inducted into Winthrop's Athletics Hall of Fame, was named one of the city's Top Businesswomen by The Business Journal and was recognized with the Judy Wilkins Rose endowment as part of the University YMCA's Y Pathways program.
She was a member of the National Advisory Board for the Intercollegiate Athletics Leadership master's degree Program at the University of Washington.