Stacey Van Order Assistant Coach First Season Stacey Van Order joined the Mountaineer rowing staff as an assistant coach in 2012. Van Order came to Morgantown from the University of Delaware, where she served as the assistant women’s rowing coach since 2011. While with the Blue Hens, she served as the head novice coach, created and executed training plans and coordinated all regatta entries. Van Order also recruited studentathletes and managed the team’s social media outlets. In her only season at Delaware, the Blue Hens finished sixth at the 2012 Colonial Athletic Association Championships. The squad placed fifth in the Varsity Fours and Second Varsity Eights, and sixth in the Varsity Eights. Additionally, Rachel Conway was named to the All-CAA Team. Van Order also led the Novice 8+ to a fourth place finish at the Dad Vail Regatta.
Prior to joining the Delaware staff, Van Order worked at the Wyandotte Boat Club, in Wyandotte, Mich., throughout the summer of 2011, and served as the junior women’s coach and the head coach of “Youth Learn to Row.” Her duties included creating and executing training plans for the junior women, coordinating regatta entries for summer racing and running two, two-week sessions of “Youth Learn to Row.” A four-year member (2004-08) of the Eastern Michigan rowing team, Van Order earned the Eagles’ Varsity of the Year Award as a senior. As a graduate assistant for the EMU squad from 2008-11, she served as the recruiting coordinator and coached the novice team. Van Order also conducted try-outs for walk-ons and created and executed workouts. Van Order is a US Rowing Level III certified coach. A native of Battle Creek, Mich., Van Order earned a bachelor’s degree in urban and regional planning from EMU in 2008.
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Grace Doepker Assistant Coach First Season Grace Doepker joined the WVU rowing team as an assistant coach in 2012. Doepker joins the Mountaineers after spending the past year at Vassar College. In her time with the Brewers, Doepker coached a team of more than 30 men’s and women’s rowers at the collegiate level. In addition, Doepker assisted with the recruitment of student-athletes as well as the planning and execution of practices. A native of Dayton, Ohio, Doepker was a member of Dayton’s rowing team as well as Penn AC Rowing and All-American Rowing. While competing, she won several medals at the Club Nationals and Elite Nationals, won the Dayton Crew Competitor’s Cup and was a member of the 2011 Atlantic-10 Varsity 8+ Champions crew. Prior to Vassar, Doepker was the head novice women’s coach at the Dayton Boat Club from 2008-11 as well as the Hudson River Rowing Association Competitive Masters’ Program head coach in 2011. Doepker is certified as a US Rowing Level II coach. She earned her bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from Dayton in 2011.