Matt Pinschmidt
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- Title:
- Head Coach
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- Phone:
- 408-554-4636
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- Email:
- mpinschmidt@scu.edu
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- Year:
- Five
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- College:
- Santa Clara '00
Matt Pinschmidt spent five seasons as head coach for Santa Clara women's rowing.
Pinschmidt, hired in September 2016, has a wealth of rowing and coaching experience. He was an assistant for the Santa Clara women's rowing team during the 2005-06 season and an assistant for the men's team from 2006-09.
From 2010-15 Pinschmidt was the junior women's varsity crew coach at the Los Gatos Rowing Club. While there he led at least one boat to the US Rowing Youth Nationals in five of his six years.
In 2010, he guided the Women's Junior Lightweight 8 to a second-place finish at Junior Nationals. The same season the Women's Junior 8 finished in fourth with Pinschmidt as the primary coach.
Pinschmidt was an assistant coach for the Women's Junior Lightweight 8 in 2009 that won the national championship. As an assistant coach he assisted in the development of each athlete and took part in all collaborative coaching decisions including, boatings, workouts, and technical direction.
As an assistant at Santa Clara in 2006, Pinschmidt was the primary coach for the Novice 8 that finished third at W.I.R.A.'s and second at D.I.R.T. In his three years as an assistant with the men's team, Pinschmidt ran the novice program with the goal of athlete retention for varsity success and injury prevention.
During his time as a student-athlete at Santa Clara, he coxed the third place Men's Varsity 4+ at the Pac 10 Championships in 2000.
He graduated in 2000 with a Bachelor of Arts in History.
Pinschmidt and his wife, Christie, have two sons, Aiden and Lochlan.