Jocelyn Rovniak

Biography

Jocelyn Rovniak joined the Green Wave Sailing Team as the assistant coach alongside Head Coach Charles Higgins in August. Rovniak hails from Houston but was raised in Richmond, Virginia. Rovniak says she is honored to join Coach Higgins and considers him a mentor. “I have followed the rise of the Tulane Sailing team and look forward to working with the athletes as they lead the team to even greater success.” The Old Dominion alumn started her college sailing career as a walk-on in the fall of 2014 for the Monarchs. While at ODU she was team captain for two consecutive years while contributing as a skipper and crew for both the women’s and co-ed teams. Rovniak also sailed with ODU in two Women’s College Nationals Sailing events. Rovniak's devotion to the sport landed her teaching and sailing opportunities at several sailing programs in the Chesapeake Bay area. Her tenure included coaching teams at the high school level for Norfolk Collegiate where she guided the team to a 2nd place finish at High School Team Race Nationals. While at Norfolk Academy, Rovniak lead the sailors to obtain their goal of 1st place in VISA Championships and 1st place in TCIS. Rovniak has also supported numerous sailing and coaching opportunities on the eastern seaboard and in Michigan and New York. In 2018 Rovniak was selected as the assistant sailing coach at Christopher Newport University and in 2019 took the reigns as Interim Head Coach. While at CNU, she coached the team through two Men’s Singleha