Josie Konopka

Josie Konopka was named assistant coach for the Virginia rowing program in July os 2004. Konopka served as an assistant coach under Wesley Ng in 2023-24 at the University of Pennsylvania after an All-America rowing career with the Quakers.

In Konopka’s first year on the coaching staff in 2023-24, the Quakers continued to make history as they qualified for the NCAA Championships for the third straight year and had all three NCAA boats earn top-12 finishes for the first time (V8 10th, 2V8 10th, V4 11th) en route to a 10-place team finish. At the Ivy League Championships, Penn took fourth in both the overall and NCAA point standings, earning silver medals in the Varsity Eight, Third Varsity Eight and Third Varsity Four. Konopka coached the 3V8 and 3V4 to the silver medals at the Ivy League Championship.

Konopka was a two-year captain of the women’s rowing team and earned first-team All-America honors from the College Rowing Coaches Association (CRCA) and first-team All-Ivy two times. She helped lead the Quakers to their first full-team NCAA Championship appearance in 2022, when Penn finished 11th, and then was in the two-seat in 2023 as the Quakers’ Varsity Eight won silver at the Ivy League Championship and followed that up with a fourth-place finish at NCAAs. Overall, Penn took sixth as a team at the 2023 NCAA Championship.