Fall and the new school year means seeing fresh, new faces on campus. This year, it also means new faces within Drexel’s athletic department. As sports start to get the ball rolling this year, the women’s athletic program is seeing new changes made to the coaching staff.
This week, Drexel Director of Rowing, Paul Savell, announced that the Drexel women’s rowing staff would have a new addition, Corinne Carlson. Carlson, a Yardley, PA native, attended Temple University, where she earned her bachelor’s degree in public health in 2024. She earned her master’s degree in hospitality and sports business analytics at the University of Delaware in 2025.
During her time at Temple, Carlson rowed for three seasons before completing her senior campaign at Delaware. She was named to the All-CAA Team as a member of the Blue Hens and helped guide the team to a program-best third-place finish overall at the 2025 CAA Championship. Additionally, she was recognized as Temple Women’s Rowing Teammate of the Year and named a CRCA Scholar-Athelete in 2024. Before joining the Dragons, Carlson worked as the Assistant Program Director and Coach at the Wilmington Youth Rowing Association, where she managed digital communications, coordinated events, and supported program operations.
Drexel women’s rowing is not the only women’s team to see changes made to their staffing. It was announced earlier this month by Women’s lacrosse coach Katie O’Donnell that Kate Goldstein was hired as an assistant coach. Goldstein, an Amherst, MA native, was a four-year letter winner at McDaniel College, where she graduated in 2014 with a bachelor’s degree in business administration and management, as well as in sports administration. In 2016, Goldstein went on to complete her master’s degree in sports management at Georgetown University, where she also began her coaching career as a graduate assistant coach.
Prior to Drexel, Goldstein spent three seasons as an assistant with the University of Pennsylvania where she acted as the goalkeeper coach and assistant defensive coordinator. During her time at Penn, she helped the team earn their fourth Ivy League Championship in program history and a berth to the NCAA Tournament in 2023. She also spent three seasons at Villanova between 2018-2021 where she acted as defensive coordinator and goalkeeping coach.
Currently, Goldstein is the Director of Nations Best Lacrosse where she assists the National Team Program in developing high-performance female lacrosse athletes. Additionally, she is the Tournament Director at Robinson Sports, Inc. where she organizes and oversees high-profile lacrosse tournaments. Furthermore, Goldstein is the head coach of the Israeli Women’s National Lacrosse Team, Sixes, and Fullfield. In 2017, as the defensive coordinator, she helped lead Israel to finish sixth in the Lacrosse World Cup.
Drexel’s softball program has seen many changes in recent months following a disheartening last season. However, it was announced earlier this summer by Drexel University Vice President and Director of Athletics and Recreation Maisha Kelly, that Brooke Kalman had been named as Head Coach of the Drexel softball program.
Kalman is a graduate of Gettysburg College where she was a four-year letterwinner and team captain. She earned her degree in psychology with a minor in writing, and she later earned her master’s degree in counseling at Villanova. Kalman started her coaching career as an assistant at Ursinus, and she continued to have head coaching stints at Franklin & Marshall College and Ripon College. From 2018-2022, Kalman served as the Head Coach and Student-Athlete Program Director at MIT. During this time, she led MIT to top-25 NFCA rankings and NCAA Regional Finals while also developing All-American student-athletes at one of the top academic softball programs in the nation.
Most recently, Kalman acted as a coach for Gettysburg College where she won the program’s first NCAA Regional Championship. Kalman worked at Gettysburg for three seasons, ending in 2025 on a high note as the team won the Centennial Conference Regular Season as well as the Regional Championship. Because she helped guide the team to its highest national ranking in both school and conference history (at No.13), accrued the most wins in a single season in Gettysburg’s program history, and coached two All-Americans (also the first for the program), Kalman and her staff were recognized by the Centennial as the Coaching Staff of the year. During her time there, she earned a 93-35-1 record and the second-highest winning percentage in the program’s history.
With these new changes being made to the women’s athletics program, it will be exciting to see how these coaching changes impact the team’s seasons this year.