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	Roz Washington
	General Information
Gender:	Female
Age:	30-40
Hair Color:	Blonde
Eye Color:	Brown
Occupation(s):	WMHS Synchronized Swimming Team Coach; Cheerios Coach
Aliases:	Black Sue, My Nubian Nemesis (Sue); A Child of the Ghetto (self); Coach Chocolate Pie (Becky), Sultry And Mysterious Coach Roz Washington, African-American Treasure (Principal Figgins)
	Family & Friends
Family:	Unnamed Aunt
Friends:	Shannon Beiste (possibly)
Employer:	Principal Figgins
Enemies:	Sue Sylvester
	Other Information
Interests:	Synchronized Swimming Taking down Mr. Figgins Stealing other people's jobs
Talent:	Synchronized swimming
Vulnerabilities:	Domestic Violence
Weaknesses:	Students urinating in her pool
Awards:	Bronze Medal for Individual Synchronized Swimming
	Series Information
First appearance:	Yes/No
Portrayer:	NeNe Leakes

Roz Washington is a recurring character on Glee. She is the current Synchronized Swimming coach and Cheerios coach at William McKinley High School and makes her first appearance in the episode Yes/No in Season Three. She is portrayed by The Real Housewives of Atlanta star, NeNe Leakes.

Biography

Roz is first seen after what is presumed as Sam's first time with the team. She was an Olympian and won Bronze at the 2008 Beijing Olympics for Individual Synchronized Swimming. It can be assumed that she is quite a strict coach.

Season Three

Yes/No

Roz is first introduced, as she is shown to be the new coach of the synchronized swimming team at William McKinley High School. Later it seems that she let her students and New Directions perform We Found Love in her pool for Will's proposal to Emma.

The Spanish Teacher

Principal Figgins enlists Roz's help coaching the Cheerios, much to Sue Sylvester's dismay. Claiming that Sue's cheerleading routines are far too outdated, Roz instructs the group to perform a more modern style, and the cheerleaders, including Becky Jackson, seem to prefer this new approach. Later, Roz discovers that Sue intends to raise a child, which she opposes, insisting that Sue is "too old" to be a mother.

Big Brother

Principal Figgins informs Sue that he is enstating Roz as Co-Coach of the Cheerios due to Sue's lack of effort to make it to Regionals. This adds to the rivalry between the two women, and Roz makes another remark about Sue's baby to be born in adulthood and with a profession.

Choke

Roz overhears Santana making a comment about Shannon's black eye, gossiping that it comes from Cooter, her husband, beating her. She tells the girls off because domestic violence isn't a matter to be gossiping about. She teams up with Sue and together they give the girls an assignment to perform a song which is lyrically about a woman who can't get out of a hard relationship. But she is shocked by their rendition of Cell Block Tango, saying that they're crazy and she agrees with Sue in saying that they've failed to understand the reality of abuse and the point of the assignment. She is present when Beiste confesses that Cooter hit her, and she asks why she didn't get out of the house because she could easily have beaten him back.

Nationals

Roz is shown to be angry because, since the New Directions won their competition, Sue gets to stay head coach of the Cheerios.

Goodbye

Roz congratulates Sue on helping the glee club win Nationals, as well as the Cheerios. She then proposes that the two of them make it their goal next year to get Principal Figgins fired because he's growing corrupt. As she leaves her office she makes another joke towards Sue's age and the baby.

Season Four

Sweet Dreams

In Sweet Dreams, Roz Washington returns to McKinley, from training the North Korea swim team with Dennis Rodman, in order to take over the Cheerios after Sue's departure. She begins to become suspicious by the fact that Blaine is now co-captain, and assumes that he was the one who caused the gunshot to go off, causing Becky to become defensive. Roz then makes the two sign an oath not to do anything to get on her bad side and/or make her look stupid.

Lights Out

In this episode, Roz is first seen talking to the Cheerios about things like rib removal, this concerns Blaine because of her dubious manner. Meanwhile, when Becky wants Sue to return back as a coach, she is hurt by the way Roz treats her individually, she is seen yelling at Becky, and is still convinced that Becky is Sue's adult child. She is present during Sue's solo, Little Girls, training the Cheerios. Roz is seen infuriated as she takes Becky into Principal Figgins' office when she mentions that Becky calls her "Coach Chocolate Pie" and churlishly demands Figgins to do something about it, and she storms out of the room.

All or Nothing

Roz is seen in her office as she hears loud banging on the door, yelling to tell the person to come in, but she opens the door and views Brittany banging on the wall with a hammer, as she is nailing 95 reasons of why she is quitting the Cheerios, she looks concerned as she decides to read the reasons herself, but looks at Brittany, curious to what she is doing, she soaks her Cheerios uniform and sets it on fire, causing Roz to cower and worries about her trying to set her hair on fire, and she splashes water to the fire. This is Roz's only scene in the episode.

Trivia

Won Bronze Medal for Individual Synchronized Swimming at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing.
Had a threesome with Michael Phelps.
Had noodles with the president.
Had an aunt who was in an abusive relationship.
Thinks she's a better coach than Sue.
Likes to make fun of Sue and her baby.
She usually calls people by aliases.
Calls herself a "child of the ghetto." (Sweet Dreams)

Quotes

“	Coach Roz Washington: Sam Evans? I'm Coach Roz Washington. And you are one strange looking kid. I've never seen lips like that on a white child, and one of your nipples is higher than the other. I bet you've had to overcome a lot with those crooked nipples. Well, I know a thing or two about overcoming. When I was growing up, they said that black folks couldn't swim. But I had a DREAM! that one day I would get to the promised land. So I swam out there and got my forty acres and a pool. Swimmer: Coach Roz was an Olympian. Coach Roz Washington: That's right. I won this Bronze damn Olympic Medal in Beijing, China for individual synchronized swimming. I bet you didn't even know there was such a thing as individual synchronized swimming. Nod to me if I'm getting through to you, nod to me! Sam: nods Coach Roz Washington: I'm gonna say one thing to you, Sam Evans, and I'm only gonna say it once. If you pee in my pool, I will kill you.	”
—Coach Roz Washington, Yes/No

“	Roz: Oh my god, hold up. Maternity leave? Are you pulling my leg? Sue: No, I am not. I am getting pregnant and then I am having a baby. Roz: With whose vagina? Sue, you can’t have no baby. You are old as a hill. You ain’t gonna give birth to no child. You gonna give birth to a grandchild. You are gonna get them stirrups and you gonna push and push and a full grown adult is gonna pop out with briefcase and a job, talking on a cell phone. And by the way, I don’t need to steal your job, Sue Sylvester. You know why? Principal Figgins is going to give it to me. Sue: He wouldn’t. Roz: Oh, he would. You see, a long time ago you won some trophies and that was real impressive. I, however, am an Olympian. I won this bronze damn Olympic medal in Beijing, China. I had noodles with the President and a threesome with Michael Phelps. What you need to do is wake up and smell the menopause: You are done as a coach. And all the hormones in Thailand can’t change the fact that you are done as a woman. What you need to do is start praying that you give birth to a child that likes to eat sand ‘cause that’s all that’s coming out of those old, wrinkly boobs.	”
—Roz Washington, The Spanish Teacher

“	Roz: Oh, I know. The doctor had to shine a flashlight in your va-j-j to get all the bats to fly out. I understand, that keeping bats out of your womb is an important part of having a baby when you're older than God.	”
—Roz to Sue, Big Brother

“	Shannon, write these names down as placeholders: Hat Rack, Asian Horror Movie, Little Oprah, Rojo Caliente, Salsa Caliente.	”
—Roz about Brittany, Tina, Mercedes, Sugar and Santana, Choke

“	There’s a cheerleading coach at their school who’s old as dirt and still trying to have a baby who they know is gonna come out looking weird with rabies and wings and it’s gonna fly right out of your hat box and straight back into hell.	”
—Roz about Sue, Choke

“	You girls are cray-cray! You were supposed to pick a song that gave women the self-esteem and courage to get the hell out of an abusive situation. But, oh no! You picked a song about crazy women in their panties killing their men for chewing gum! How is that supposed to help?	”
—Roz about Brittany, Tina, Mercedes, Sugar and Santanafor singing Cell Block Tango, Choke

“	Sweetheart, You're as big as a house. Why don't you turn around and kick his ass?	”
—Choke, Roz Washington to Coach Beiste about Cooter

“	Honey, please, I am a child of the ghetto. I can't sleep at night unless I hear at least two gunshots.	”
—Roz Washington to Shannon Beiste and Will Schuester, Sweet Dreams

“	We like our protein shakes to taste like human food and not some crazy peanut butter stem cell sauce you cooked up on your island of Dr. Monroe.	”
—Roz Washington to Becky Jackson, Lights Out

“	Sue's adult baby has been a belligerent pain in my booty and I am not gonna take it anymore. First, she started making fart noises every time I bent over, then she started making fart noises every time I blinked. Ain't nobody fart every time they blink, that is crazy! Then Robin Sylvester called me "Coach Chocolate Pie," I marched her down here so you can decide what to do with her. It's YOUR problem!	”
—Roz to Principal Figgins about Becky, Lights Out

“	Ooh, lord, Jesus! This fool done tried to set my hair on fire!	”
—Roz Washington about Brittany, All or Nothing

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