Liesel Hud, Assistant Coach
Background
After being a very successful athlete at La Salle University as a three-sport varsity athlete all four years, Liesel found the sport in which she was most successful: rowing, not offered at LaSalle when she attended. She started rowing after college at Philadelphia Girls Rowing Club (PGRC) where she quickly progressed becoming a fierce competitor in sculling, winning events at the local regattas and multiple U.S. National Championships. She represented and competed for the United States internationally at the World Championships and at the Pan Am Games. Liesel has coached highly competitive winning rowing teams at all levels: international, scholastic, pre-elite, high-performance, masters and novice. She joined Undine’s High Performance Rowing Program in 2025 with a very successful showing at both Row Fest 2025 U23 women and the 2025 Royal Canadian Henley.
Women’s sports has evolved at a remarkable pace since the early 2000’s. Supporting and giving back to the sport she loves, she has served on various rowing boards including the National Women’s Rowing Association, the Schuylkill Navy, the Women’s Olympic Rowing Committee and PGRC and then continued to coaching crew. She started The Agnes Irwin School high school rowing team. As head coach, she built this program from the ground up to a winning program. Along the way, she was the US Women’s Junior National Team head coach. To remedy the lack of support and funding at the time, she secured a generous 6-year grant from L’Oreal for the Junior Women’s team which enabled the US to win at the Junior World Championships multiple times. Many of these rowers have gone on to represent the United States at the Olympics.
Coaching highlights:
International:
1995 USA Women’s Junior National Team Head Coach, Jr. World Championships, Poznan, Poland, JW8+, JW2-
Domestic:
2025 Row Fest Finalists in 5 events with Gold and Silver in WU23L1X, Silver in WU23 1X, and WU23 4X
Philadelphia Girls Rowing Club 1989 – 2019
USRowing National Championships: 5 Gold, 8 Silver, 3 Bronze medals
USRowing Master’s Nationals: 8 Gold
Canadian Henley Regatta: 2 Gold
Head of the Schuylkill: 10 Gold
Head of the Charles: 4 Silver
The Agnes Irwin School Crew 1993-2003
10 Gold Medals at Scholastic Rowing Association of America National Championships including:
Mid8+, V4x, V2x, V4+, JV2x, L2x, JV2x
3 Gold Medals at the Stotesbury Cup Regatta, Philadelphia, PA: JV 2x, L4+, V4x
Gold, Silver, or Bronze every year at the Philadelphia City Championships in various events including:
Mid8+, V4x, V2x, V4+, L4+, JV2x, L2x, JV2x JV4x, V1x
The Baldwin School Crew 2012-2016
2 Silver Medals at SRAA National Championships.
1 Silver Medal at Stotesbury Cup Regatta, Philadelphia, PA: L2x
2 Gold Medals at Philadelphia City Championships
Athletic Highlights:
International Rowing:
U.S. National Team competing at World Championships:
1985 – Women’s Quadruple Sculls, Hazewinkel, Belgium (4th)
1986 – Women’s Double Sculls, Nottingham, England (9th)
U.S. Pan American Team member – 1983 – Caracas, Venezuela (alternate)
Domestic Rowing:
U.S. National Championships:
Gold: 1992 Master’s Women’s Quad “A”
1989 Elite Single Dash
1988 Elite Single
Elite Single Dash
Elite Double
1984 Elite Single
Elite Single Dash
Silver: 1986 Elite Single (U.S. National Team Women’s Singles Trials)
1984 Elite Double
1983 Elite Quad
Bronze: 1986 Elite Quad
1983 Pan American Team Trials: 2nd Women’s Single
Olympic Sport’s Festival:
Gold: 1986 Women’s Double (U.S. National Team Trials)
1982 Women’s Single (Pre-elite Team)
Collegiate Athletics:
La Salle University, Philadelphia, PA
M.V.P.: Varsity Tennis
M.V.P.: Varsity Track
Captain: Varsity Tennis
Varsity Basketball
Personal Mottos:
Find your passion and pay it forward! Do your best at everything you do, every day!