Donohoe Named URI Head Rowing Coach :: Named the interim coach last fall, she is appointed the Rams' head coach; the former Olympic medalist spent the last nine seasons at Northeastern.

Donohoe Named URI Head Rowing Coach

Named the interim coach last fall, she is appointed the Rams' head coach; the former Olympic medalist spent the last nine seasons at Northeastern.

	Shelagh Donohoe is the new head women's rowing coach at URI

April 10, 2007

KINGSTON, RI - Shelagh Donohoe has been named the head women's rowing coach at the University of Rhode Island. Appointed the Rams' interim coach this past fall, she assumes the head coaching role after spending nine years at Northeastern as the coach of the Huskie novice women's program.

Donohoe looms large in the world of rowing. A perennial member of the U.S. National Rowing team, she has competed in three World Championships, the 1990 Goodwill Games, and the 1992 Olympiad in Barcelona, earning a silver medal as a member of the U.S. four-without. In the 1991 World Championship in Vienna, Austria, she silvered in the four-without, and as a member of the U.S. eight, she also won world silver in 1990 and '92.

As a coach, Donohoe brings a plethora of experience from both the collegiate and secondary levels. Before her time at Northeastern, she served as an assistant at Boston University and Harvard. She also coached the U.S. Junior Women's National Team in 1994.

Donohoe is a former consultant for the Charles River Regatta Trust with a primary duty of coordinating youth rowing programs for inner city children and adolescents.

A 1988 graduate of UMass-Lowell with a degree in business administration and a minor in health sciences, she was the first member of the rowing team inducted into the UML Athletics Hall of Fame in 1993.