HOT SEAT
Dave Harvey: Tacoma Rowing
There are nearly 8,000 middle and high school students in Tacoma, Washington. Coach Dave Harvey wants to get them on the water. So in 2021 – after years in finance and project management in higher education and aerospace – he founded Tacoma Rowing.
Tom Rooks: Williamsburg Boat Club
As Williamsburg Boat Club Executive Director and Head Coach, Tom Rooks is putting the spotlight on working hard and having fun.
Linda Hannum: Northampton Community Rowing
A health and wellness coach who got hooked on rowing after 50, Linda Hannum sees the sport as an incubator for trust and personal growth.
Tom Boedeker: San Diego Rowing Club
Boedeker has spent years coxing womens crews, and cites those who came of age before Title IX as his inspiration. He's worked with plenty of rowers who have proven it's never too late to learn to row... and win!
Karen Werth: Capital Rowing Club
There was cycling in the Werth family blood, but in 1996 Karen was looking for a sport to claim as her own. One LTR session at CRC and she was hooked.
Tricia Draminski: San Diego Rowing Club
Draminksi came to rowing in her 20s after a youth spent running middle- and long-distances. A recent transplant to San Diego, she's now a member of SDRC.
Matt Lehrer: CRI
Director of Coaching Education at Community Rowing, Inc. Matt Lehrer opens up about being a novice rower at Denison University and what inspires him today.
AC Chacon: Long Beach Rowing Assoc.
As a collegiate coxswain, AC Chacon caught the coaching bug. Now he's head coach of Long Beach State men’s rowing, and summers in Nassau coaching juniors.
Karen Agersborg: Penn AC
Karen Agersborg has decades of rowing experience under her belt, including a run at the 1988 US National Team. A battle with cancer caused her to miss the 2016 USRowing Masters Nationals, but today she’s cancer free, and very happy to be back on the water.