Women's Rowing - Open
- Title:
- Head Coach
- Email:
- dauphiny@princeton.edu
- Phone:
- 609-258-6373
| Dauphiny • By The Numbers |
| • 2019 CRCA Hall of Fame Inductee |
| • 2006, 2011 NCAA varsity eight champion, 2022 NCAA varsity four champion |
| • 1997, 2004, 2006, 2011, 2013, 2014, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 Ivy League champion |
| • 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2022, 2023, 2024 Ivy League Head Coach of the Year |
| • has led Princeton to every NCAA championship regatta, dating back to 1997 |
| • Princeton has placed in the Top 5 at NCAAs 12 times |
| • the Princeton V8 has made 20 of 27 NCAA grand finals |
| • 267 dual race wins, the most for any Princeton coach with a single rowing team |
| • Had four alumni go to 2024 Olympics; Hannah Scott '21 won gold. |
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• 2006 US Rowing Woman Of The Year
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| • two-time National Coach of the Year |
Two-time National Coach of the Year Lori Dauphiny will enter her 29th year as the head coach of women’s open crew for the 2026 season, and she has led the Tigers to an unprecedented era of success over her career. Under Dauphiny, Princeton has won two V8+ NCAA Championships and 14 Ivy League crowns, and the Tigers will enter the 2026 season having won 95 of its last 100 Ivy League dual races.
The First Varsity ripped off a blistering time of 6:01.18 to take down No. 5 Yale (6:05.06) by 3.8 seconds in the 2025 Ivy League Grand Final. The Tigers led throughout the race, defeating Yale's previously unbeaten boat. It is the eighth consecutive victory for the 1V at Ivies and 10th in the past 11 events.
Princeton earned an at-large bid to the NCAA Rowing Championships becoming one of six Ivy League schools in the field. The 2V collected a bronze medal at NCAAs while the team finished sixth overall, marking the 10th top-ten finish for the program in the last 13 NCAA regattas.
The Tigers finished with four All-Americans highlighted by Katherine George being named a finalist for CRCA Athlete of the Year.
Dauphiny was honored as the CRCA Co-Regional Coach of the Year in 2024. Princeton did not lose during the regular season, collecting wins over Brown, Harvard, Cornell, Rutgers, USC, Yale, Columbia, Northeastern, Notre Dame and Penn all by at least three seconds. The 1V won the Ivy League title for the Tigers. Princeton finished fourth overall at the NCAA Rowing Championships as the varsity four collected a silver medal, marking the first time Princeton has been in the top four in three consecutive seasons since 2010-13.
The first varsity finished third at the NCAA Rowing Championships behind Stanford and Washington in 2023. It was the third time ever that the boat has medaled at NCAAs in consecutive years (2009-10, 2005-06).
Princeton also finished third in the NCAA team standings, trailing Stanford (129) and Washington (120). It was the second straight season the Tigers were third, marking the first time in program history that the Tigers finished top three in consecutive seasons.
The 2022 season saw Princeton place third at the NCAA team standings behind Texas and Stanford, the best mark since earning silver in 1997. The Varsity Four of Roopa Venkatraman, Hailey Mead, Catherine Garrett, Natasha Neitzell and Lauren Johnson won the national title (7:05.23) over Ohio State (7:06.46), Texas (7:07.18), Stanford (7:08.54), Washington (7:10.78) and Brown (7:19.22).
The gold medal marks the first V4 medal in program history at the NCAA Rowing Championships. Venkatraman, Mead, Garrett, Neitzell and Johnson join the likes of the 1997 2V, 2006 1V and 2011 1V as the only golds in team history at NCAAs.
Princeton's 1V trailed by a second in the first 500m to Texas before the Longhorns pulled away from the entire field (6:10.73). The Tigers were neck and neck with Stanford, but the Cardinal secured second place (6:15.43). Princeton (6:17.70) kept California (6:18.78) at bay to secure the bronze. It was the 1V's best finish since a silver in 2013.
During the 2019 season, Princeton went 12-0 in the regular season and went on to take down the Ivy League title for the fourth consecutive year. The Tigers finished seventh overall at the NCAA Championships and secured the program's 21st top-ten finish ever. In offseason, Dauphiny was named to CRCA Hall of Fame.
While there isn't much that Dauphiny hadn't already accomplished in her career, she did experience some history during the 2014 season. Princeton repeated as Ivy champion for the first time in her career — she would do so again from 2016-2018 — and the Tigers did so in thrilling fashion against a Brown crew which was also ranked No. 1 nationally at the time.
The 2011 NCAA title was Princeton's second in a six-year span. In 2006, she put together one of the greatest college crews in NCAA history with a squad that went undefeated and won the national championship by open water. Her crew in 2011 was equally dominant, going 13-0 in the regular season and then sweeping both postseason competitions.
Princeton's performance at the 2011 EAWRC Championships (the final year before the Ivy League Sprints) was as impressive as any in recent history. Not only did the open women win their 11th Eastern title, but Princeton swept the 2V, V4 and 3V competitions as well. While the varsity eight placed first at the NCAA Championships, the team also added a fourth-place finish.
Dauphiny has also placed several recent rowers in major international competitions, including a historic showing in the 2012 London Games, when five Princeton alumni competed. Three earned medals in the W8+, including two-time Olympic gold medalist Caroline Lind '06. Lind was also part of the U.S. gold medal-winning 8+ at the 2008 Summer Olympics. Both Andreanne Morin '06 and Lauren Wilkinson '11 earned silver medal with the Canadian 8+.
The 2021 Tokyo Olympics had three alumni in Stone, Hannah Scott '21 and Claire Collins '19. At the Paris Olympic Games Princeton had four alumnae in Claire Collins '19, Kelsey Reelick '14, Emily Kallfelz '19 and Hannah Scott '21 represent their countries. Reelick '14 and Kallfelz '19 led the U.S. four to fourth overall while Collins' 19 helped the U.S. eight to fifth.
A multiple-time Mid-Atlantic Coach of the Year, Dauphiny led the Tigers to a magical three-year run of 2004-06, when Princeton won an NCAA title and two Eastern championships and reached the grand final at the 2004 Royal Henley Regatta. Her squad advanced to the final of the Remenham Challenge, where it fell to the Thames Rowing Club and University of London. She returned to Henley in 2011 with her EAWRC/NCAA champion V8.
A 1985 graduate of Washington, she enjoyed an outstanding collegiate career that included a second-place finish at the 1984 National Collegiate Rowing Championships. She also was a three-time winner at the Pac-10 Conference championships, the West Coast’s equivalent of the Eastern Sprints. Dauphiny twice won gold medals for the U.S. at the Canadian Henley.
| Year | Overall Record | Ivy Record | EAWRC/Ivy Sprints | NCAA V8 | NCAA Team |
| 1997 | 12-1 | 7-0 | 1st | 3rd | 2nd |
| 1998 | 10-1 | 6-1 | 5th | 6th | 6th |
| 1999 | 10-1 | 6-1 | 2nd | 4th | 4th |
| 2000 | 12-1 | 6-1 | 3rd | 6th | 6th |
| 2001 | 10-1 | 6-1 | 2nd | 5th | 5th |
| 2002 | 9-1 | 6-1 | 4th | 5th | 7th |
| 2003 | 12-1 | 6-1 | 2nd | 8th | 7th |
| 2004 | 11-1 | 7-0 | 1st | 4th | 6th |
| 2005 | 11-0 | 7-0 | 2nd | 2nd | 5th |
| 2006 | 14-0 | 7-0 | 1st | 1st | 3rd |
| 2007 | 7-6 | 3-3 | 3rd | 6th | 8th |
| 2008 | 6-2 | 4-2 | 4th | 10th | 12th |
| 2009 | 8-2 | 6-1 | 3rd | 6th | 10th |
| 2010 | 12-0 | 7-0 | 2nd | 3rd | 3rd |
| 2011 | 13-0 | 7-0 | 1st | 1st | 4th |
| 2012 | 8-2 | 7-0 | 3rd | 4th | 4th |
| 2013 | 8-1 | 6-1 | 1st | 2nd | 3rd |
| 2014 | 8-2 | 6-1 | 1st | 7th | 6th |
| 2015 | 8-2 | 6-1 | 3rd | 11th | 12th |
| 2016 | 9-2 | 6-1 | 1st | 6th | 7th |
| 2017 | 11-0 | 6-0 | 1st | 9th | 11th |
| 2018 | 12-1 | 7-0 | 1st | 5th | 9th |
| 2019 | 12-0 | 7-0 | 1st | 7th | 7th |
| 2021 | 2-1 | N/A | N/A | 10th | 10th |
| 2022 | 9-1 | 5-0 | 1st | 3rd | 3rd |
| 2023 | 7-0 | 5-0 | 1st | 3rd | 3rd |
| 2024 | 10-0 | 6-0 | 1st | 4th | 4th |
| 2025 | 6-2 | 4-1 | 1st | 7th | 6th |
| Totals | 267-32 (.893) | 163-17 (.905) | 25 medals (15 gold) | 9 medals | 13 Top-5s |
