Bucknell University Athletics
Women's Rowing
- Title:
- Assistant Coach
- Email:
- bsp013@bucknell.edu
- Phone:
- 570-577-3243
Briana Pittman joined the Bison staff in the fall of 2013 after one year filling multiple roles with Friends of Port Rowing, including head varsity women’s coach, head boatman and assistant masters coach.
A Pittsburgh, Pa., native, Pittman began rowing the summer before her freshman year at North Allegheny High School. She has two silver medals from the Stotesbury Cup Regatta, along with a bronze medal in the quadruple sculls at the USRowing Youth Invitationals. She placed in the top 15 internationally and top 10 nationally at the C.R.A.S.H.-B. World Indoor Rowing Championships. In 2006, Pittman was chosen to be a member of the United States Junior National Team, competing in the quadruple sculls in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Pittman went on to row at the University of Wisconsin for four years and was elected team captain her senior year. During her college career, she acquired four Big Ten Medals and was part of the first-ever Big Ten Championship team in Wisconsin history. She placed second in the Varsity 4+ at the NCAA Championships, marking the highest nationally placing boat in the history of Wisconsin rowing. In 2010, she was a member of the Varsity 8+ that placed 10th at NCAAs, resulting in a seventh-place overall team finish, which was the highest the team has ever finished at NCAAs. Pittman was an assistant coach in 2011 to the women's freshmen team at Wisconsin and was the student boatman for the Wisconsin program.
During her time at Port Rowing, Pittman coached the girl’s lightweight four to a silver medal at NYS Championships in the spring of 2013, the women’s varsity eight to a top 5 finish at NE Regional Championships in the Spring of 2013, and she sent one of Port Rowing's first boats to SRAA National Championships in the Spring 2013 season. In the summer of 2013 she coached the women’s lightweight pair to a gold medal at USRowing Club Nationals in the intermediate lightweight pair event.
