Egan Berne - Rowing Coach - University of Louisville Athletic

Egan Berne

Title:
Assistant Coach
Email:
egan@gocards.com

Egan Berne joined the staff as an assistant coach for the University of Louisville rowing program in July of 2023, coming to the Ville from Michigan State.

In 2025, she helped guide the Cardinals to a 10th place finish at the 2025 Atlantic Coast Conference Championship. The highly-competitive ACC field featured eventual national champion Stanford along with Cal, Virginia and Syracuse who finished the season ninth, 10th and 12th respectively at the NCAA Championships. Kaylie Leonard was named to the All-ACC third team. The 2025 campaign was also highlighted by the Southern Intercollegiate Rowing Association (SIRA) Championship Regatta which saw the Cardinals' Varsity 8, Second Varsity 8 and Novice 4 boats collect gold medals with the Varsity 4A earning the silver in the 'A' final.

Berne, a 2017 graduate from the University of North Carolina with a degree in psychology, joined Michigan State in 2020. She was responsible for primarily coaching Michigan State's Second Varsity 8+ and heading up the Spartans' recruiting efforts both domestically and abroad. Berne assisted with managing, fixing, and transporting the team's boats and other equipment, and having a hand with the team's social media and the team's involvement with the Spartan Pride Alliance.

Prior to her stint at Michigan State, Berne served as the assistant and interim head coach with the women's rowing programs at both Gonzaga and Colgate. From 2017-18, Berne served as the head novice girls coach at Loyola Academy Rowing Association. She spent a season at Gonzaga University (2019-20). While the Covid-19 pandemic did not allow for spring competition, the Zags had 15 student-athletes earn Academic All-WCC honors as the squad boasted a 3.52 spring GPA. The rowing program boasted 12 President's List honorees and 18 named to the Dean's List.

Berne's first post-collegiate position was in her hometown of Chicago, as the novice rowing coach and freshman girl's basketball coach at Loyola Academy. She then accepted an assistant position in the collegiate ranks at Colgate University in Hamilton, NY (2018-19) where she was involved in all aspects of the program. She focused on the fours and was greatly involved in all aspects of team travel and also ran the Red Raiders social media accounts. The Red Raiders won the petite final in both the varsity eight and varsity four at the Patriot League Championships. She stepped in to serve as the program's interim head coach from March to July 2019 until accepting the position at Gonzaga.

Berne was a recruited rower and four-year letterwinner for the Tar Heels and the 2016-17 team captain. In 2014, she was rowing's nominee for "Newcomer of the Year" across the entire athletics department. While at UNC, Berne also was a member of the university's Richard D. Baddour Carolina Leadership Academy and spent the summer of 2015 with the International Summer School Program at the University of Oslo in Norway.