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Jaime Goodrich enters her first season with the UCLA women's rowing team while continuing to serve as Administrative Director for the non-profit youth basketball organization, Hoopmasters.
Goodrich brings to UCLA vast coaching experience, which includes coaching basketball at the Santa Monica Boys and Girls Club, the Lafayette Youth Association, the Santa Monica YWCA, the Westwood Recreation Facility, and Palos Verdes Sports Camps, dating back from 1992. The frequent exposure to coaching has characterized her with exceptional interpersonal skills and has availed her to work well in a team setting.
Goodrich, an alumna of Cal, discovered rowing during her freshman year. An accomplished rower, she later rowed the stroke seat of the Novice 8 to a silver medal at Pac-10's. She rowed the next three years with Cal’s varsity program, in which the team captured a majority of their collegiate races. Goodrich also consistently medalled at the Pac-10's and took sixth place in the first NCAA's for rowing in 1997.
Goodrich has also trained in the single scull during the summer, setting an example to her student-athletes by rowing in the off-season. She has trained internationally, mostly in Yugoslavia under Nebojsa Ilic, the Yugoslavian National Team coach. Her experience as a student-athlete, as well as her perseverance during the summer, has imparted upon her a deep understanding of the dynamics and strategy of rowing.
Goodrich graduated from the University of California, Berkeley in 1998 with a Bachelor’s in Philosophy. While there, she was a winner of the Presidential Undergraduate Fellowship for writing a foreign language textbook in Serbo-Croatian.
Goodrich, whose parents both attended UCLA, already teems with Bruin blood. Her father, Gail Goodrich, played with the UCLA basketball team and helped the Bruins capture their first two National Championships (1964 and 1965).
As a prep, Goodrich attended Santa Monica High School, where she competed in the hurdles for track and played varsity basketball for three years.
Goodrich currently resides in Los Angeles. Her interests include cooking, journalism, literature, and fencing.
