Stetson University Athletics

Susan Saint Sing begins her third season as the head coach for the Stetson crew program. She brings tremendous experience and knowledge to her team.

She was a member of the 1993 US World Rowing Team, has a Ph.D. in Kinesiology from Penn State University, and has sailed nore than 10,000 blue water miles

Saint Sing was a volunteer assistant for one year with Stetson before taking over the program. Prior to that she was the volunteer rowing coach at the United States Naval Academy (2006-07), the head men's and women's crew coach at Penn State (2001-03), and she coached at the prestigious Kent School in Connecticut.

During her career she has also worked as the manager for the United States National Rowing Team for the World Rowing Championships in 1993, the U.S. Rowing National Development Camp Manager in 1991, and was the Program Director for the U.S. National Rowing Center in Cincinnati from 1987-89.

Saint Sing is the author of eight books including The Wonder Crew: The Untold Story of A Coach Navy Rowing and Olympic Immortality. This is a book on the longest winning streak in Olympic history-- rowing in the 1920 Olympic Games. Her most recent book is on Harvard Rowing entitled, The Eight: One Season in the Tradition of Harvard Crew.

She has spoken and published at various universities in the O.S. including in 2011 at the University of Notre Dame for their nationally acclaimed “Play Like a Champion Series.”   Saint Sing has spoken internationally for both academic and athletic conferences in several universities--most notably a Vatican appointment in 2009 to speak with an international panel of sport administrators from Africa, Japan, Russia, South America and various nations of the world.

Saint Sing has coached teams to seven national rowing medals, including two at Stetson for the lightweight women.  Under her coaching leadership, Stetson's men won their first Florida State Championship in the men’s light four in 2011. 

In 2010 and 2011 the lightweight women won state and regional titles and medals including two bronze medals at the Dad Vail National Regatta and the team has been nationally ranked in the top 13 in the U.S. for the past two years.