Staff

Coach Doug’s rowing journey began nearly four decades ago. While learning the sport, his coaches were all extremely accomplished rowers, but not always effective communicators. Doug saw an opportunity and began exploring and refining his own teaching methods.

In 2016, Doug joined the coaching staff of Florida Rowing Center where he immediately shared his interest in biomechanics and injury prevention. There he had the opportunity to study under and coach alongside industry icons Gordon Hamilton, Marlene Royle, and Larry Gluckman.

Coach Doug’s technique-focused approach has propelled students to the highest levels of the US Olympic Development Program and yielded impressive regatta results worldwide for elite-level masters and juniors. While students’ medals are rewarding for any coach, Doug is equally excited working with novice and intermediate-level rowers. His coaching accelerates students’ progress on the water by improving their understanding of not merely what to do, but how to do it.

To make effective use of students’ time off the water, Doug hosts an interactive blog with brief reminders of the technique tips that are important at every level of rowing skill.

Coach Bob started coaching the junior rowing program in Louisville, KY in 1996. His students have gone on to row at Princeton, Harvard, Dartmouth, Brown, and multiple other smaller schools around the country. He became involved in the para-rowing program in Louisville, and coached Oksana Masters to a Paralympic bronze medal, London 2012. In 2016 he began working with the athletes at the Invictus and Warrior games. Most recently, Netherlands 2022, Germany 2023, and Orlando 2023.

Coach Bob prides himself on correct basics, developing efficient strokes to maximize speed. Coaching adaptive rowers allows him to bring a fresh perspective when viewing able-bodied rowing technique. Often the smallest adjustment will make a huge difference: it’s like puzzle solving. He has a quiet, calm teaching style with strict attention to detail. He instills confidence and accuracy in his athletes.

Coach John played baseball through college and beyond, but when he landed in Oxford to pursue a postgraduate English degree, he switched his attention to rowing and has not looked back. That was in 1984.

While at Oxford, Coach John rowed for his college 1st eight, competed in regattas throughout England and abroad, earned his blades, and captained the Worcester College Boat Club. After earning his MPhil, he returned stateside to teach at Phillips Academy, and coached their varsity girls crew to four NEIRA titles and a national championship in 1992.

He has also coached at Middlesex School, Community Rowing, and currently coaches masters scullers for Squam Community Rowing in Holderness, NH. Coach John is a US Rowing L2 certified coach.