Assistant Coaches
Jessica Leidecker
Jessica Leidecker is in her third season as an assistant coach with the Tigers. Leidecker came to the Clemson coaching staff after training with the US national team. Leidecker is a 2009 graduate of Clemson where she was named first and second team All-America and helped Clemson win their first ACC Rowing Championship in school history. Leidecker was also a member of the first Clemson crew to advance to the NCAA Rowing Championships in 2008 and assisted
2013 CLEMSON ROWING Assistant Coach • Third Season • Clemson ‘09 Clemson to a #12 ranking in the USRowing/CRCA Women’s Rowing poll during the 2008 season. In 2009, she was a member of the Varsity 8+ crew that won an ACC Championship and was named ACC Crew of the Year. She was also a member of the Women’s 4- that placed fourth at the U23 World Rowing Championships in Brandenburg, Germany. The following year she stroked the U23 8+ boat that placed 2nd in the Czech Republic. The Westerville, Ohio native graduated from Clemson in 2009 with a degree in Animal Sciences.
The Leidecker File Personal Full name:.......................................................... Jessica Lynne Leidecker Birthdate:................................................................ December 11, 1982 Birthplace:.......................................................................Westerville, OH College:............................................................Clemson University, 2009 Rowing Experience Clemson University................................................................2005-2009 Westerville Crew....................................................................2005-2009 Coaching Experience Clemson University, Assistant Coach..................................... 2010-Present
Melanie Onufrieff
Melanie Onufrieff is in her second season as an assistant coach with the Tigers. Onufrieff came to Clemson after spending the seven years as the head women’s rowing coach at Columbia University. During her last two years with the Lions, Columbia achieved its first ever team national ranking, finishing as high as 19th in 2010. Prior to joining the staff at Columbia in 2005, she spent six years as the head women’s rowing coach at Cornell, beginning in 1999. Her 2002 varsity eight was chosen for the NCAA Championships, where it finished 14th. That performance, combined with its regular-season and Sprints showings, earned Onufrieff MidAtlantic Region Coach of the Year honors from the CRCA. Onufrieff spent two years as an assistant coach at Princeton from 1997-1998. Her first novice eight took the silver medal at the 1997 Eastern Sprints. In 1998, the Tigers’ first novice eight won gold at the Sprints. Once again, she was EAWRC Novice Coach of the Year. Onufrieff began her full-time coaching career in 1995 at Rutgers as the novice women’s coach. Her first novice eight won a silver medal at the Sprints and a bronze at the IRA Regatta. She was voted the EAWRC Novie Coach of the Year. Onufrieff spent the summers of 2001, 2006, 2007 and 2008 as an assistant coach with the United States National Rowing Team. She was in charge of the silver medal winning 4- in 2008 at the Senior World Rowing Championships in Linz, Austria and the Gold Medal winning Under 23 Women’s 4X in Strathclyde, Scotland in 2007. A native of Berkeley, CA, Onufrieff was a three-year letter winner from the University of Pennsylvania. She was a two-year rowing captain, and was twice selected for the Hope Barnes Memorial Award for Excellence in Rowing. She also twice earned selection to the Academic All-Ivy League Team. Onufrieff graduated from Penn in 1994 with a B.A. in biology.
Assistant Coach • Second Season • Penn ‘94
The Onufrieff File Personal Full name:............................................................... Melanie M. Onufrieff Birthdate:........................................................................... September 9 Birthplace:...........................................................................Berkeley, CA College:................................................. University of Pennsylvania, 1994 Rowing Experience University of Pennsylvania......................................................1991-1994 Coaching Experience Clemson University, Assistant Coach..................................... 2011-Present Columbia University, Head Coach............................................2005-2011 US National Team, Assistant Coach...............................2001, 2006-2008 Cornell University, Head Coach...............................................1999-2004 Princeton University, Assistant Coach......................................1997-1998 Rutgers University, Assistant Coach.........................................1995-1996
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