Marnie Stahl Position: Assistant Coach Alma Mater: Charleston '99

Marnie Stahl joined the Irish coaching staff in August of 2005 and will begin her fourth year with the program in 2008-09. She works primarily with Notre Dame's varsity four crews.

Prior to coming to Notre Dame as an assistant coach, she spent two years as a volunteer assistant coach at the University of Michigan.

Stahl's boats have enjoyed great success over the last four years. This past season at the BIG EAST Championships, the Irish varsity four and second varsity four crews won gold medals as Notre Dame swept all six races en route to winning its fifth consecutive conference title. In addition, Notre Dame's open four crew won the Petite Final.

Overall, Notre Dame's varsity four boats have won five gold medals at the BIG EAST Championships under Stahl.

She also has been part of the two most successful campaigns in school history with the Irish finishing ninth in 2006 and 12th in 2007 at the NCAA Championships after earning back-to-back berths in the team competition. The four crews advanced to the Petite Finals of the NCAAs and finished 11th overall on both occasions.

Stahl began her two-year stint with the Michigan program in September 2003 following four years as head coach for the St. Ursula Academy Rowing Club in Toledo, Ohio (August 1999 through July '03). At Michigan, she served as the primary coach for the varsity four boats and helped the program achieve success at the national level. In 2004, the Wolverines finished third in the team competition at the NCAA Championships and then followed that up with an eighth-place finish in 2005.

A member of the Toledo Rowing Club since August of '91, Stahl has served that organization in a number of capacities and has been instrumental in the long-range strategic plan ning of the program. She was named president of the Board of Trustees in January of 2005 after having been a board member since January of '03. She was head coach of the women's collegiate summer program in '03 and served as head coach of the women's masters team from June of 2000 until September of 2001.

Stahl graduated cum laude from the University of Charleston in Charleston, W. Va. with a bachelor's of science degree in sports medicine and pre-professional studies in May of '99. In addition, she has done graduate coursework in exercise physiology at the University of Toledo.

A four-year letterwinner at Charleston, she rowed with the novice and varsity four boats as a freshman, the lightweight eight boat as a sophomore and the varsity eight crew in both her junior and senior seasons.

Beginning in August of 2001, Stahl was employed by the Health Fitness Corporation. She began as a health fitness specialist (August '01-September'02) at the UAW-Ford Health and Fitness Center in Dearborn, Mich. She also was the program manager for the employee fitness center at the Owen Corning Headquarters in Toledo, Ohio, a position she was named to in January of '03.

A native of Toledo, Stahl holds a Level III certificate from the United States Rowing Association and is certified by the National Strength and Conditioning Association as a strength and conditioning specialist.