alpine skiing Coaches

Willi Steinrotter was named the Alpine Ski coach at St. Lawrence in the spring of 2009. A native of Sodus, NY and a three sport athlete at Hobart College, Steinrotter will take over a St. Lawrence program which is a charter member of the Eastern Intercollegiate Ski Association and produced its first NCAA alpine champion in Lindsay Cone in 2009.

Steinrotter, a 1989 graduate of Hobart and a skier/coach on the Hobart and William Smith club ski teams while in college, has the most wins as a coach in Clarkson soccer history in a 19-year career as coach of that sport and has taken several of his alpine ski teams to the U.S. Collegiate Ski and Snowboarding Association national championships.

Steinrotter’s men’s and women’s alpine teams have been consistently among the best in the Adirondack region of the USCSA and his 2008-09 team produced two USCSA All America skiers. A former president of the USCSA, he took teams to five straight national championship meets from 2000-2004 and had a sixth place finish in the 2007 national championships. His alpine skiers tied for seventh in the combined competition this past March.

Recent graduate of the University of New Hampshire and four-time All-American, Sean McNamara, joins the St. Lawrence Alpine Ski Staff as assistant coach for the 2009-10 campaign. 

McNamara graduated from UNH in 2009 with high honors and a B.S. in Exercise Science .  He was a four-year member of the UNH alpine ski team, captaining his team from 2008-09.  In 2009, McNamara earned the Jim Urquhart Award, the Univertiy of New Hampshire Student Athlete of the Year Award, and was elected member of ESPN The Magazine Academic All-District Team.  He was a four-time Academic All-American, and a four-year member of the All-East Alpine Ski Team.  McNamara was also President of the Student-Athlete Advisory Committee from 2008-09. 

Along with his athletic participation, McNamara also organized a number of projects in his local community.  From 2006-09, he worked to connect the UNH student-athletes with the surrounding seacoast community through food drives, toys for tots, and fundraisers.  McNamara worked for the Big Brother Mentoring program from 2008-09, and as a tutor for the UNH Athletic Department.  From 2008-09, he was a member of the UNH Commencement Committee as well.