Colgate Vice President and Director of Athletics Dr.
Nicki Moore selected Jessica Deitrick for the Colgate Women's Rowing head coaching position in July 2019.
Deitrick brought championship credentials to Hamilton. She spent three seasons as the assistant coach at Navy for a Mids program that was riding a streak of five consecutive Patriot League titles.
Navy swept to the 2019 conference crown with victories in all three races. The Mids then went on to a No. 17 final finish at the NCAA Championships, matching the best result in program history.
Deitrick coached the second varsity eight for two seasons after coaching varsity fours in 2017.
In addition to their streak of Patriot League championships, the Mids finished 20th, 17th and 17th nationally in Deitrick's three seasons with the program. The Navy coaches were named 2018 and 2019 CRCA Region Staff of the Year.
Deitrick in 2019 coached at the prestigious Henley Royal Regatta and Henley Women's Regatta in England.
At Women's Henley, the women's straight four (4-) knocked off local teams Oxford University and Leander Club to advance to the semifinals. They lost in the semis to eventual champions Edinburgh University.
At the Henley Royal Regatta, Deitrick's Navy crew competed in the King's Cup for the first time since 1919. Eight different countries represented by their military competed against one another. U.S. Armed Forces won the event, beating Germany in the final.
Named to Navy head coach Joe Schlosberg's staff in August 2016, Deitrick (nee, Mahon) arrived in Annapolis after a successful run at High Point as that university's head coach of club rowing.
While at the North Carolina school, Deitrick was responsible for the competitive efforts of more than 40 male and female student-athletes. In two years leading the program, both the men's and women's teams prospered in races at the Knecht Cup, Dad Vails, SIRAs and the American Collegiate Rowing Association national championship.
Deitrick's women's novice eight crew was ranked first in the ACRA poll for four consecutive weeks during the 2016 spring season. In 2015, the High Point men's pair won an ACRA national title and finished second at Dad Vails.
A native of Rhinebeck, New York, in the Lower Hudson River Valley, Deitrick rowed collegiately at William Smith. She competed with the Herons for four varsity seasons and was a team captain during her junior and senior campaigns.
Deitrick graduated William Smith College in May 2008 with a B.A. in psychology before attaining a master's degree in special education from Elon University in August 2011.
She is married to William Deitrick of Baltimore.
