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  Shelagh Donohoe

Shelagh Donohoe

Player Profile

Position:
Head Coach
Experience:
Fourth year
Education:
B.A., UMass-Lowell '88

DONOHOE'S COACHING HIGHLIGHTS
- Directed Rhody to its first Atlantic 10 championship in 2008.
- Selected as the Atlantic 10 Coach of the Year in 2007 and 2008.
- Coached 23 All-Atlantic 10 First Team and three All-Atlantic 10 Second Team student-athletes.
- Guided three of her student-athletes to CRCA All-New England Region honors.
- In the classroom, 16 of her student-athletes have received National Scholar-Athlete recognition.
- Since the fall of 2006, the team has achieved a grade point average of 3.0 or above.

The 2009-10 season marks head coach Shelagh Donohoe's fourth year with the Rhode Island rowing program.

In 2008, Donohoe led the Rams to their first-ever Atlantic 10 Championship and was named A-10 Coach of the Year for the second-consecutive season.

In her first year in Kingston, Donohoe helped the Rams become the first A-10 team to win the Varsity 8+, Second Varsity 8+, Varsity 4+ and the Novice 8+ events in the same year. Honored by her peers as Atlantic 10 Coach of the Year in both 2007 and 2008, Donohoe believes that success in the A-10 is a stepping stone in the journey to national success.

Prior to coaching at URI, Donohoe spent 10 successful years coaching at Northeastern University. She was part of the coaching staff which saw the Huskies earn invites to four NCAA Championships. Named New England Assistant Coach of the Year in 2004, she has previously served as an assistant at both Boston University and Harvard. In addition, she coached the U.S. Junior Women's National Team in 1994, where the team rowed at the Junior World Championships in Munich, Germany.

Donohoe has an extensive rowing history of her own. A member of the U.S. National Rowing team from 1989-92, she competed in three World Championships (1989 in Bled, Yugoslavia; 1990 in Tasmania, Australia; and 1991 in Vienna, Austria) and the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain.

At the 1992 Olympics, she earned a silver medal as a member of the USA's four-without team. She also won silver medals at the 1990 (women's eight) 1991 (women's four without) World Championships.

A 1988 graduate of University of Massachusetts-Lowell with a degree in business administration, Donohoe was the first member of the rowing team inducted into the UMass Lowell Athletics Hall of Fame in 1993.

updated: 7/22/09