Sabrina Gottschalk

Biography

Sabrina Gottschalk is in her first season as an assistant coach for the Eastern Michigan University rowing team in the 2025-26 academic year. Gottschalk is a former student-athlete at Michigan State University, spending all four years as a captain racing on the rowing team for the Spartans. While at MSU, she earned Academic All-Big sophomore-senior year’s, named CRCA Scholar-Athlete junior and senior year, Big Ten Distinguished Scholar junior year, and earned First Team All-Big Ten Honors senior year. During her time as a Student-Athlete at MSU, Gottschalk competed in the varsity eight helping her team finish fourth in the Sunshine State Invitational (6:32.55), finished first in the final race at the Big Ten Invitational (6:36.733), second in the Dale England Cup (7:31.28), and second in IRA Sprints to earn a spot in the Grand Final against five ranked crews, finishing sixth in a time of 7:09.54. She also helped her team finish fifth in the varsity eight at Big Ten Championships (6:17.781) a length ahead of Ohio State in MSU's best finish at the Big Ten Championships since 2014. Gottschalk is from Utica, Mich., graduating from Michigan State University in May of 2025 with a degree in Advertising Management. She has ties with Head Coach Kemp Savage as he helped coach her to compete in the 2025 World University Games as the U.S. took bronze (6:48.46) in the 8+ boat. She also earned bronze in pairs and gold in an 8+ boat at the 2025 Rowfest at Ford Lake. The Sabrina Gottschalk F