Updated May 8, 2:40 p.m.

Katie Rokus has left her job as an assistant coach for the women’s basketball team to join the women’s program at the University of Cincinnati.

Rokus will be working as an assistant coach, the Bearcats announced Friday.

“Coach Rokus has left the program,” assistant sports information director Jesse Hooker confirmed. “It’s a Big East opportunity for an assistant coach that someday wants to be a head coach. [Women’s basketball head] Coach [Mike] Bozeman is happy his assistants are being recognized for the hard work they put in and he’s happy that Katie got this opportunity.”

She spent three seasons as an assistant coach for the Colonials. During her tenure, the program brought in two recruiting classes ranked in the Top 50 by ESPN HoopGurlz, including the Atlantic 10’s highest ranked class in 2009.

Prior to coming to Foggy Bottom, Rokus spent five seasons as an assistant coach at UMBC. She served as top assistant and and recruiting coordinator her final three seasons with the Retrievers, helping the program to its first America East Conference title and NCAA Tournament bid in 2007.

Rokus is a 2003 graduate of the University of South Carolina Aiken, where she was a two-time captain of their women’s basketball team.