Sara Gauntner - Assistant Director of Athletics for Instructional Programs and Recreation

Sara Gauntner was promoted to Assistant Director of Athletics for Instructional Programs and Recreation in August 2009. She was previously the Director of Aquatic Activities and assistant swimming coach since 2005.

As the assistant director, Gauntner supervises all aspects of aquatics, is responsible for all maintenance of the pool and surrounding areas and schedules recreation activities for campus facilities and physical education classes.

Sara also teaches various aquatic classes for the physical education department. Together with teaching, Gauntner runs the entire learn to swim program for adults and children. 

Gauntner is certified in safety for swim coaches, lifeguard training, CPR, first aid, AED, WSI, pool operations, and pesticide applications.

Gauntner graduated from Indiana University of Pennsylvania with a degree in health, physical education and aquatics where she was a member of the swim team and holds her master's degree in education from Gannon University. Gauntner also has a master's degree in sports leadership from Duquesne University, which she completed in the spring of 2009.

Sara's office is located in the University Center near the pool. You can contact her at 412-268-7030 or by email.

Mike Belmonte - Assistant Director of Intramurals

Mike's information will be online soon.

Belmonte was recently promoted and will be helping with intramurals beginning this fall. He will be serving as both the Assistant Director of Intramurals and the Assistant Men's and Women's Tennis Coach. His primary responsibilities for intramurals include supervising evening activities, sport officials development, and other league-management related duties.

In addition to these responsibilities, Mike will also be teaching various physical education classes. In the fall, he will be teaching racquetball.

We're extremely excited to have Mike joining our staff and are confident that his skills and experience will have a positive impact on all of our programming.

Mike's office is located in Skibo Gymnasium on the second floor. You can contact him at 412-268-4924 or by email.

Donna Morosky - Director of Fitness

Donna Morosky has been the Director of Fitness for the Department of Athletics for 20 years. Prior to becoming the director of fitness, Morosky was the men's and women's swimming coach and a health educator for Carnegie Mellon.

Morosky is responsible for the development of all programs associated with recreational fitness and spends time administering, monitoring, and purchasing equipment and teaching classes. She is also the director for the group exercise program. These programs include 30+ fitness classes a week and have an instructor pool of about 15.

Donna has her bachelor's degree in health, physical education and recreation from Slippery Rock University and a master's equivalency in education. She is certified in aquatics, weight training, step, yoga, children fitness, cycling, personal training, nutritional counseling, and other fitness lifestyle activities.

In the spring, Morosky will be teaching areobic fitness and spinning.

Donna's office is located in Weigand Gymnasium in the University Center. You can contact her at 412-268-8140 or by email.

Pattye Stragar - Assistant Director of Fitness and Operations Manager

Pattye Stragar is in her seventh year with the Carnegie Mellon Department of Athletics. She graduated from Kent State University with a bachelor's degree in physical education with a minor in coaching and secondary education and earned her master's degree in physical education from Ithaca College.

Since 2003, Pattye is certified in Zumba, jump stretch, group step, health & fitness for the 21st century, spinning, profile designs & heart rate games, sports nutrition, yoga fundamentals, group strength, kick boxing, aquatic exercise, personal training and deep water exercise.

Pattye teaches physical education classes including fitness fusion, aqua at both ends, adult swimming, beginning tennis and beginning golf.

Stragar is a certified lifeguard, certified in CPR/AED for the professional rescuer, certified pool operator, registered with Allegheny County as a public bathing place operator and has a category 24 pesticide certification.

Prior to working at Carnegie Mellon, Pattye was the women's gymnastics coach, sychronized swimming advisor, cheerleading advisor, women's intramural director, taught physical education classes & private lessons in golf and tennis at Northwestern University.

Pattye's office is located in the University Center near the gym and equipment desk. You can contact her at 412-268-1235 or by email.