Coaches

Steve Wagner - Director

Steve has been directing very successful sculling programs for the past 30 years, providing outstanding coaching and a relaxing, supportive and fun environment. Once again, he has brought together a great group of coaches.

Steve has been the Head Coach at Rutgers University for the past 25 years. Under Steve's coaching, Rutgers has produced many Olympic and National Team oarsmen, and many fine crews. Most recently, his 2003 Men's Varsity Heavyweight 8 made the Grand Final of the EARC Sprints and went on to the Final of the Henley Royal Regatta in England.

Jaclyn Wagner - Assistant Director

Jackie has coached and directed numerous sculling camps and clinics for the past 12 years. She has served on the coaching staff at Buckingham, Browne, and Nichols School, Community Rowing of Boston, and currently works with the Westfield High School program.

Jackie learned to scull and race at an early age, and went on to Rutgers. She was a 3 year letterwinner and 2 year captain of the Rutgers Varsity Women's Crew, leading the Rutgers team to qualify for the NCAA Championships her senior year.

Jim Barker

Jim Barker has been coaching sculling at the Undine Boat Club and the Haverford School for over 40 years. He has mentored many National and Olympic Scullers, including three Diamond Sculls winners and two World Champions. Under his direction, the Haverford School has won more National titles than any other school in the history of high school rowing. Jim has been US National Team sculling coach several times.

As a competitor, Jim won 24 elite National Championships. Jim was inducted into the US Rowing Hall of Fame in 1992.

Jim Joy

Jim Joy has had a distinguished career as an athlete, coach, and as Director of the Canadian National Team. For the past 35 years, he has been a leader in the area of coaching education, putting together seminars for coaches all over the world. His "Joy of Sculling Coaches Conferences" have become the top program of it's kind, and his many years of teaching sculling clinics and camps makes him unique in the sculling world.

Dan Roock

Dan was recently named to the position of Head Coach of the Dartmouth Lightweight Crew after a very successful 12 year tenure as Director of Rowing and Head Coach of Heavyweight Crew at Cornell. His 2002 Cornell Varsity squad placed 5 crews in the Intercollegiate Rowing Association National Championship finals. Before his tenure at Cornell, Dan was the Head Coach of the Princeton Women's Crew, leading them to three consecutive National titles. He has been a coach for the National Rowing Team several years, and in 1999 was named the United States Olympic Committee Development Coach of the Year for his work leading the under 23 US National team to a gold medal at the World Championships.

Linda Muri

Linda is the Freshmen lightweight Crew Coach at Harvard. Linda's coaching experience includes four years at the Middlesex School, Community Rowing, and several rowing clinics and camps. Before arriving at Harvard, she spent three years as the Freshmen lightweight Coach at Cornell where she led her top freshmen 8 to a silver medal at the 1999 Eastern Sprints.

Linda has won 18 National Championships as a competitor, and is a nine year member of the U.S. Rowing National Team as both a sweep oarswoman and a sculler. She is a three-time World Champion, and also has won a bronze and a silver medal at the World Championships. Linda has twice won the CRASH-B Indoor World Championship.

Radcliffe and MIT named their series cup in honor of Linda in 2009. Radcliffe won the inaugural row with Linda on hand to congratulate the wining crew.

Brian Thorne

Brian Thorne has been a successful sculling competitor and coach for the past 35 years. Brian represented Canada in the lightweight single scull from 1974 - 1984, winning two World Championship medals. He won the Championship Single at the 1976 Canadian Henley and the 1976 Olympic Single Scull Trials. Brian won a silver medal in the double at the 1987 Pan American Games, and this Fall will compete in his 29th consecutive Head of the Charles. Brian has represented the St. Catharines Rowing Club as a competitor and coach for almost 40 years.

Ted Benford

Ted is the Head Coach of the Lightweight Crew at MIT for the past 5 years. He was the Head Coach of the Men’s Crew at Boston College and Tufts University and an assistant coach at Northeastern University. Ted has coached at numerous rowing centers in the east and has served as a guest coach at several of the nation’s top club and camp programs and clinics during the past 20 years.

During the summers, Ted is a coach with the Riverside Boat Club High Performance Group. For the past two years, his athletes have won Gold medals at the Canadian Henley Regatta and finished in the semifinals at the Royal Henley Regatta (Prince of Wales Cup). In 2008 and 2009, he coached the men’s lightweight pair for the U.S. National Team from Riverside Boat Club.

Andy Hilton

Andy is the Freshmen Lightweight Coach at MIT, where he has coached for the past 3 years. Prior to MIT, Andy served as the varsity assistant coach at the University of California Berkeley from 2006-07. He coached the varsity four to gold at the Pac-10 and IRA Championships. Andy also served as a volunteer coach in 2006 as Cal captured the IRA National Championship in the varsity eight.

Andy graduated from Dartmouth College, earning his B.A. in Economics in 1999. He rowed for the Dartmouth lightweights and co-captained the 1998-99 squad that won a Bronze medal at the IRA National Championship. After college, Andy served as the lightweight intern at Harvard University from 1999-01 before returning to full time training at the U.S. Rowing Training Center in Princeton, N.J.

After hanging up his oar in 2002, Hilton returned to coaching part-time at Deerfield Academy. He has coached at several sculling camps and clinics the past several years.

Oliver Rosenbladt

Oli is currently the Head Coach of the girls rowing program at Deerfield Academy. He started coaching in 1994 with the Riverside Boat Club’s lightweight women’s team. Since then he has worked with the Community Rowing Club in Boston, Northeastern University’s men’s team and the Rivanna Rowing Club, Charlottesville, Virginia. In 2004 and 2008, Rosenbladt worked with NBC Sports covering the Olympic rowing competitions in Athens and Beijing.

Oli was a member of the Varsity Crew at Rutgers University and served as captain in his senior year. A four-time lightweight US National Champion, he participated in the Olympic Trials twice and represented the United States at the Lucerne and Copenhagen International Regattas. He emerged from the Canadian Henley Regatta as champion and won a bronze medal in lightweight rowing at the 1991 US Olympic Festival. Oli has coached at Black Bear Sculling for the past 3 years.