Kelsie Chaudoin, Stanford's associate head coach, has helped the Cardinal to four top-6 NCAA finishes since she joined the staff for the 2016 season.
Chaudoin is heavily involved with recruiting and coaches the varsity four. In 2019, the varsity four was second at the NCAA Championships, matching the program's best finish in that event.
Overall, Stanford was fourth in 2018 and 2019, and sixth in 2016 and 2017.
Chaudoin arrived at Stanford after serving as a novice men’s assistant coach for the Oakland Strokes Rowing Club in 2013-15.
As an assistant coach with the Strokes, Chaudoin was responsible for teaching technical aspects of rowing and fitness as well as developing monthly training plans. She helped lead the club to a program-record six medals at the Southwest Regional Championships in her first year.
While coaching the Strokes, Chaudoin continued to compete as an athlete with the California Rowing Club, attempting to make the U.S. roster for the 2016 Olympics. She won the Canadian Henley pair and quad in 2013 as well as the West Coast Fall Speed Order in 2014. Chaudoin has rowed with the California Rowing Club since 2012.
Chaudoin trained at the USRowing Training Center in Princeton, New Jersey, from 2008-11. She won gold at the 2008 U-23 World Championships in the 8+ and was an elite national champion in the four in 2009.
Chaudoin graduated from the University of Virginia in 2008 as the first student-athlete to receive a four-year degree in architecture. She also minored in Spanish. A walk-on to the Virginia rowing team, Chaudoin was a NCAA first-team All-American and the ACC Rowing Scholar-Athlete of the Year. She was also a captain her senior year and received the program's Oarswoman of the Year award. Chaudoin led the Cavaliers to consecutive ACC championships from 2005-08 and to a runner-up finish at the NCAA Championships in 2007.