Rowing
- Title:
- Associate Head Coach
- Email:
- sheila@GoCards.com
- Phone:
- 852-7933
• Education: Iowa, 2010
Sheila Rinozzi is in her fourth season with the Louisville rowing program, including her second season as associate head coach. Prior to joining the Cardinals, she served two seasons as an assistant coach at Indiana.
During Rinozzi’s two seasons in Bloomington, she was the recruiting coordinator and played a key role in leading the Hoosiers to their first two NCAA Championship appearances where they finished 11th in the nation in both 2014 and 2015. She and the other IU coaches were honored as the 2014 National Staff of the Year by the Collegiate Rowing Coaches Association and were the 2015 Regional Staff of the Year.
"I am thrilled to become part of the Louisville rowing family. From my very first conversation with Coach Copeland, I knew there was something truly special about this team,” explained Rinozzi. “Derek and his staff are very passionate, not only about winning, but more importantly about the success and well-being of each and every one of their student-athletes. I cannot wait to begin working with them. I feel very privileged to be joining the Louisville community. "
Rinozzi joined the IU staff after spending the 2012-13 season serving as a volunteer assistant at Iowa, where she was a First Team All-Big Ten selection her junior and senior years as a coxswain for the Hawkeyes. Before Rinozzi returned to Iowa City, she spent two years as the varsity women's assistant coach at Loyola Academy and the past two seasons as an events and operations intern in the Harvard athletic department.
A four-year letterwinner for the Hawkeyes and native of Chicago, Rinozzi graduated from Iowa in 2010 with a degree in Interdepartmental Studies and Health Sciences. She spent a summer at the United States Rowing Association as a National Team Programs Intern before spending the 2010-11 season as a novice coach at Northwestern. She earned a master's degree from the University of Washington in 2012 in Intercollegiate Athletic Leadership.
“Sheila has tons of experience and has proven that she can collaborate with some of the best. I really wanted a staff that had the ability to work off of each other and I think Sheila is great at this,” said Louisville rowing head coach Derek Copeland. “This is an intense environment, to say the least, and Sheila’s passion fits right in. Sheila will mainly work with the varsity boats, but will also play a huge role with recruiting. She is incredibly organized, hungry and humble -- a great set of tools to have here at the University of Louisville.”
