USC Rowing Adds Allison Foster As Assistant Coach
August 01, 2024 | Women's Rowing
Foster brings extensive collegiate coaching experience to head coach Kelsie Chaudoin’s USC staff.
LOS ANGELES – USC women's rowing head coach Kelsie Chaudoin has announced the addition of assistant coach Allison Foster, who brings a wealth of knowledge and experience to her role at USC. Foster joins Chaudoin and assistant coach Jake Power to prepare the Women of Troy for the coming 2025 season, where USC will compete as a member of the Big Ten Conference for the first time.
"Allison is someone I've respected for years, and she will bring a wealth of experience to USC," Chaudoin said of Foster. "Her experience at Oregon State as an assistant and at LMU as a head coach will be invaluable. She has a keen eye and always pushes the envelope, looking for new competitive advantages relative to physiology and training. Additionally, she has such a steady presence and pays close attention to details. I look forward to having her on staff and to everything she will add to the team here at USC!"
Foster comes to USC after serving two seasons as director of rowing and women's head coach at Loyola Marymount, overseeing all aspects of the men's and women's teams and coaching the women to back-to-back third-place finishes at the West Coast Conference championships. Under her leadership, LMU's Varsity 8 recorded the program's best conference finish since 2019 last season.
"It is an honor to join USC as an assistant coach for the women's rowing team," Foster said. "USC is a university I have always admired for the high level of excellence demonstrated by their student-athletes both in the classroom and in competition. Thank you to Kelsie Chaudoin and Paul Perrier for their support and enthusiasm through the hiring process. I am thrilled to join Coach Kelsie and the Trojans for this next chapter of USC women's rowing. Fight On!"
Foster's coaching career began in 2012 as an assistant men's rowing coach at the University of Puget Sound. While there, she led the team to a conference championship in 2014 and was also named Northwest Collegiate Rowing Conference Men's Coach of the Year. Foster then spent two years at UNC Chapel Hill as an assistant women's rowing coach. Foster went on to Oregon State for five years, ultimately finishing as associate head coach for the OSU women. During her tenure in Corvallis, she led the 2022 Beavers team to their first NCAA Championships appearance since 2009.
A native of Bend, Ore., Foster earned a bachelor's degree in public health and a minor in nutrition from Oregon State in 2012.
"Allison is someone I've respected for years, and she will bring a wealth of experience to USC," Chaudoin said of Foster. "Her experience at Oregon State as an assistant and at LMU as a head coach will be invaluable. She has a keen eye and always pushes the envelope, looking for new competitive advantages relative to physiology and training. Additionally, she has such a steady presence and pays close attention to details. I look forward to having her on staff and to everything she will add to the team here at USC!"
Foster comes to USC after serving two seasons as director of rowing and women's head coach at Loyola Marymount, overseeing all aspects of the men's and women's teams and coaching the women to back-to-back third-place finishes at the West Coast Conference championships. Under her leadership, LMU's Varsity 8 recorded the program's best conference finish since 2019 last season.
"It is an honor to join USC as an assistant coach for the women's rowing team," Foster said. "USC is a university I have always admired for the high level of excellence demonstrated by their student-athletes both in the classroom and in competition. Thank you to Kelsie Chaudoin and Paul Perrier for their support and enthusiasm through the hiring process. I am thrilled to join Coach Kelsie and the Trojans for this next chapter of USC women's rowing. Fight On!"
Foster's coaching career began in 2012 as an assistant men's rowing coach at the University of Puget Sound. While there, she led the team to a conference championship in 2014 and was also named Northwest Collegiate Rowing Conference Men's Coach of the Year. Foster then spent two years at UNC Chapel Hill as an assistant women's rowing coach. Foster went on to Oregon State for five years, ultimately finishing as associate head coach for the OSU women. During her tenure in Corvallis, she led the 2022 Beavers team to their first NCAA Championships appearance since 2009.
A native of Bend, Ore., Foster earned a bachelor's degree in public health and a minor in nutrition from Oregon State in 2012.
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