USD women’s rowing Head Coach Kim Cupini is excited to welcome Steve Baranoski to the coaching staff. After three years as an assistant coach for both the men’s and women’s rowing programs at Wesleyan University (2011-14), Baranoski has been spending the last couple years as head coach for the Princeton National Rowing Association, a high performance junior program in Princeton, New Jersey.
“I am excited to be back coaching at the collegiate level and to be working with a great coaching staff and talented student athletes,” Baranoski said. “I feel privileged to be able to work with Coach Cupini, and learn from her and add to the success she has built here at the University of San Diego."
“It is great to have Steve here at USD coming off his success and experience at the junior and collegiate levels,” said Head Coach Cupini. “I am excited for him to work with our student athletes with his belief and commitment to develop the rowers on and off the water.”
As head coach for the Princeton National Rowing Association (2015-16), his Women’s V8+ placed fourth at USRowing Youth Nationals. In the fall of 2015 he led the V8+, V4+ and 2V8+ to a first place finish at the Navy Day Regatta in Philadelphia. Only a few months into his head coaching position at PNRA, his V8+ placed third at the very competitive Head of the Charles race in the fall of 2015.
While at Wesleyan University as an assistant coach, his Freshman 4+ and 3V8+ made the grand finals at The New England Rowing Championship and the ECAC Regatta.
Baranoski graduated from Marietta College in 2011 with a bachelor's degree in Education and History.
