AWARDS & HONORS

EISA Coach of the Year: 2019

The 2019 EISA Coach of the Year, Willi Steinrotter was named the Alpine skiing coach at St. Lawrence in the spring of 2009. During his tenure, he has continued to grow the program into one of the best in the Northeast. He coached his first collegiate All-American in 2011, when Ashley-Kate Durham '13 finished in third place overall at the NCAA Championships. Steinrotter then had three skiers earn bids to the 2012 NCAA Championships, the most in a season in program history.

Most recently, Riley Whitney '20 made her first trip to the postseason, with a trip to the 2020 NCAA Championships in Bozeman, Montana. Carter Armstrong '20 made back-to-back trips to the NCAA Championships during his sophomore and junior seasons (2018, 2019) and Jake VanDeursen '19 also made an appearance at the 2019 NCAA Championships. The pair made it the first season that two men's skiers have qualified since the 2012.

In 2019, three skiers earned National Collegiate All-Academic Ski Team honors from the United States Collegiate Ski Coaches Association (USCSCA). Steinrotter also coached multiple athletes to their first EISA top-20 finishes, including Tarrah Price '21, who earned 13th place at the UVM Carnival.

Steinrotter also works with the Saints' soccer programs as an assistant coach. He came to St. Lawrence after serving as the head men's soccer coach at Clarkson for 19 years, becoming the winningest coach in the program's history.  He coached his 1993 Empire Athletic Association championship team to the NCAA Division III semifinals and his 1998 team lost in overtime to St. Lawrence in the regional final.  He had two national All-America team members during his Clarkson tenure and 12 regional All-America selections. He was 1993 EAA and NSCAA Regional Coach of the Year in soccer.

Steinrotter, a 1989 graduate of Hobart and a skier/coach on the Hobart and William Smith club ski teams while in college, left Clarkson as the program's all-time leader in wins as a soccer coach and also led several of his Alpine ski teams to the U.S. Collegiate Ski and Snowboarding Association national championships. Steinrotter’s Alpine teams at Clarkson were 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.