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Coach Fischetti is relatively new to rowing, but is no stranger to coaching and to physical training. Her extensive dance training at the American Ballet Theater, Martha Graham School and Philadelphia School of the Arts helped prepare her for her current position. Prior to rowing and then coaching the sport, Fischetti participated in a teachers' workshop offered through the Kennedy Center in Washington DC, in which dance teachers worked with groups of physically and/or mentally challenged adults and children. From 1987-2004, she taught on the staffs at the Marsha Ismailoff Mark School of Ballet and at the Newtown Center for Classical Ballet.
She began rowing in the spring of 2002, while developing the SHU masters rowing program with current head coach John Turner. At the Hartford Riverfront Regatta (2002), Sacred Heart Masters took gold and bronze, with Coach Fischetti stroking the boat that won gold.
Racing with New Haven Rowing Club, Coach Fischetti and her crewmates won gold in last year's Head of the Connecticut, fifth place in Head of the Charles and gold at the 2006 FISA Masters World Rowing Championship.
This year, Coach Fischetti and Head Coach John Turner brought home a 10th place finish in the mixed double sculls event from FISA World Masters Championship. The two began sculling in 2005 and are steadily gaining speed, winning events in Black Fly, Narragansett, Bernie Ryan and Mystic Coastweeks Regatta.
Turner and Fischetti have built the Sacred Heart University Women's Rowing program from a roster of 9 in 2002 to a consistent roster of 30--each year attracting a greater number of skilled rowers. Sacred Heart proves to be more competitive each year and has been particularly successful in the pairs, fours and novice events.
Coach Fischetti holds a degree in English from Fairfield University. In addition to her coaching role at Sacred Heart, she is a freelance copywriter.
