Women's Rowing - Open
- Title:
- Assistant Coach
- Email:
- hbetanco@princeton.edu
- Phone:
- 609-258-6373
Princeton went 13-0 in 2011 and swept gold in the V8, 2V, V4 and 3V at the 2011 EAWRC Championships. The Tigers went on to win gold in the V8 competition at the NCAA Championships, and Princeton finished fourth in the team competition. Last season, Princeton won the team title at the inaugural Ivy League Sprints and qualified each of its three boats to the NCAA Championships grand finals; Princeton hadn't done that in more than a decade.
As a program, Princeton will enter the 2013 season having won 23 straight Ivy League races and 35 of 37 regular season races overall. It has placed in the Top 4 of the NCAA team competition each of the last three seasons, and it has medaled in each of the last three Ivy championship races.
Goodroad's duties include assisting head coach Lori Dauphiny in recruiting efforts and serving as the head coach for the varsity four.
“She is an exceptional coach and athlete, and we feel very fortunate that she is coaching at Princeton,” Dauphiny said. “She brings a considerable amount of experience to the program as an Olympic athlete and most recently, the head women’s rowing coach at George Washington University.”
She made a big mark in her first season at Princeton by leading the novice women to a perfect 12-0 record and a gold medal at Eastern Sprints. With a significant number of seniors graduating from the varsity boat in 2006, some of her freshmen were able to make an immediate impact on the varsity program.
Betancourt was the team alternate at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney, Australia, and she has represented the United States at the World Championships in Croatia, Canada, Germany and France. A member of the gold-medal winning crew at the U-23 World Championships in Belgium, she experienced collegiate rowing at the highest level when she was part of the national championship squad at Brown in 1996.
Betancourt graduated from Brown in 1998, and she was the team captain. She was named one of the 100 greatest athletes of the century at Brown in 2000.
