Stanford women’s rowing head coach Yasmin Farooq announced the addition of Kelsie Chaudoin to her staff on July 27, 2015.
Chaudoin will be heavily involved with recruiting and will coach the varsity four. She joins the Cardinal as an assistant coach in 2015-16 after serving as a novice men’s assistant coach for the Oakland Strokes Rowing Club since September, 2013.
As an assistant coach with the Oakland Strokes, Chaudoin was responsible for teaching technical aspects of rowing and fitness as well as developing monthly training plans. She helped lead the club to a program-record six medals at the Southwest Regional Championships in her first year.
While coaching at Oakland Strokes, Chaudoin continued to compete as an athlete with the California Rowing Club (CRC). She trained full time trying to make the U.S. roster for the 2016 Olympics, winning the Canadian Henley pair and quad in 2013 as well as the West Coast Fall Speed Order in 2014. Chaudoin has rowed with the California Rowing Club since 2012.
Prior to competing at the CRC, Chaudoin trained at the United States Rowing Training Center in Princeton, N.J. from 2008-11. She won gold at the 2008 U-23 World Championships in the 8+ and was an elite national champion in the four in 2009.
Chaudoin graduated from the University of Virginia in 2008 as the first and only student-athlete to receive a four-year degree in Architecture. She also minored in Spanish. A walk-on to the Virginia rowing team, Chaudoin was a NCAA first team All-American and the ACC Rowing Scholar-Athlete of the Year. She was also a captain her senior year and received the UVA Oarswoman of the Year Award. She led the Cavaliers to four straight ACC Championships from 2005-08 and to a runner-up finish at the NCAA Championships in 2007.