Aseem Rastogi joined the Brandeis women’s basketball staff prior to the 2019-20 season as an assistant coach.

Over the last three seasons, Rastogi has played a pivotal role in program development, including implementing analytics-driven, player-friendly, and aligned systems of play that helped create the 4th-highest scoring team in program history (1748), 1st per game (69.9 ppg) and their first winning record since 2014-15. Rastogi was instrumental in developing and executing leadership and character programming for the team as well as growing the team's Twitter and Instagram presence. As a leading voice in the basketball community on a game-sense approach and creating aligned, competitive practices, Rastogi has delivered a number of clinics on the practices in use at Brandeis and of his own creation that continue to augment player and team development here at Brandeis.

Rastogi is the Co-Founder of Essential Coaching, the most deeply connected coaching community in the world. He serves as an ally for holistic coach and program development for coaches and organizations across the world and in every sport. In addition to his duties with the women's basketball team, Aseem worked side by side with the Swim & Dive program and the Women's Soccer program, helping each to create an aligned, player-centric program development model that has reaped major benefits for both clubs. Most recently, he was tasked with facilitating 100 Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Group Work Sessions at Brandeis from June 2020-March 2021, serving all student-athletes, staff, and administration at Brandeis. The sessions were centered around culture, race, privilege, equity, and LGBTQIA+ issues, as well as Brandeis Athletics' Transgender Student Inclusion Policy. 

In addition to Essential Coaching, Rastogi is also the co-owner and managing partner of Playmakers League, the Essential 3 on 3 Basketball Experience. Playmakers League operates both domestic and international leagues centered around age-appropriate player development using 3 on 3 as the vehicle for exponential generational change. 

Rastogi coached girls and basketball at the scholastic level in Maryland, Virginia, and Washington, D.C., for seven years prior to joining the Judges. As the head varsity coach at South County High School in Lorton, Virginia, he coached his team to a record-breaking season in 2018-29. The team achieved its first-ever ranking in The Washington Post (#18), as well as set school records for points in a game (81), 3-pointers made in a season (124), assists in a season (308), and points in a season (1257).

Before that, at W.T. Woodson High, he helped the program host its first district playoff game and appear in its first regional playoff game in 5 years. During this time, Rastogi developed 9 different all-district players and coordinated the first-ever girls elite camp in the history of Northern Virginia girls basketball. Prior to that, Rastogi spent 2012-13 at Division I Virginia Commonwealth University as Director of Player Personnel and Interim Director of Basketball Operations.

In addition to his duties as the full-time Assistant Women's Basketball Coach, Rastogi will serve as the Athletics Inclusion Educator, where he will work side by side with the senior leadership in the department and the university. He will consult with Dr. Aretina Hamilton from the Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, to discuss the intersection of university-wide and department programming and with the Director of Athletics and Associate Director of Athletics on inclusive practices during the department search and screening process. Further, he will plan and execute Group Work Sessions for all first-year student-athletes as well as staff multiple times a year, and be available to teams and groups inside the department and on campus for further DEI programming.

Rastogi received his B.S. in physical education and sport management from Old Dominion University in 2010 and his M.Ed. in Adult/Higher Education Administration & Intercollegiate Athletic Administration from the University of Oklahoma in 2012. He lives in Pawtucket, RI with his wife, Becca.