Mike Hughes enters his 6th year as the Head Coach of the Women's Crew.  During his tenure, the team has steadily increased speed and competitiveness in the Eastern Sprints League.  

Hughes came to Navy from the University of Pennsylvania in 1991 as the Varsity Men’s Lightweight Coach. While at Penn, his Lightweight Freshmen medaled twice at the Eastern Sprints. In his second year at Navy, he led the Lightweights to their first winning season in many years. In the fall of 1994 Hughes took over the Heavyweight Freshman team and in 1997 his Second Frosh won the Eastern Sprints
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A 1972 graduate of Wilkes College in Wilkes-Barre, PA, Hughes has been coaching since 1975. He has managed numerous National Teams and the 1988 Olympic Team.

Mike Alton graduated from Temple University in 1992.  While rowing for Temple, he won the Dad Vail Regatta three times in the Men's Eight and rowed at Henley.  Following graduation, Alton accepted a coaching position at Wichita, Kansas.  After three seasons, Alton was the Varsity Women's Coach at Drexel University.  Alton has been the Head Men's and Women's coach at Vassar College since August 2000.
 A Lifeguard in Atlantic City, Alton won the South Jersey's in 1996 in the single.

Dave Collins won a Bronze Medal at the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta, GA in the Lightweight 4-.

Larry Connell is an 18 year veteran of the University of Pennsylvania. Connell serves as an assistant coach to the heavyweight program, where his main duties are with the freshman heavyweight squad, in addition to working as the men’s rowing programs’ recruiting coordinator.

Prior to joining the Penn program, Connell was the freshman heavyweight coach at Rutgers University for five years and the head coach at Holy Spirit High School in Absecon, N.J. for three season.

During the 1986-87 rowing season, the Penn freshman heavyweight team went an impressive 33-0 and captured both the IRA and EARC Championship titles. It was only the third time in school history that Penn won both championships in the same season. For his accomplishments, Connell earned EARC Coach of the Year honors.

In 1989, Connell’s freshmen won the Eastern Sprints and advanced to the Henley Royal Regatta, where they rowed to the semifinal. He then experienced Henley tradition once again when his freshman eight boat won the 1997 Eastern Sprints and sailed into the semifinal at Henley. Penn lost to eventual winner Goldie, the second varsity boat from Oxford University.

Since 1982, Connell has been involved in the coaching and development of the U.S. Junior Men’s Rowing Team. In 1982, as one of two coaches of the Junior Men’s Eight, Connell’s crew won a silver medal at the Junior World Championships. In 1983 and 1984, along with current Head Coach Stan Bergman, Connell coached the Junior Men’s Eight in the Junior World Championship.

Dr. Mike Davenport was appointed Washington's sixth head coach in the summer of 1990. Prior to that, he was head coach at the University of Albany. Mike graduated from FIT in 1978, where he won several Dad Vail medals. After graduation, he was an assistant coach and was instrumental in FIT winning several national titles as well as the Dad Vail overall point trophy.

Davenport's coaching experience has extended well beyond the collegiate experience realm and onto the National Rowing Team. For two years, he was an assistant coach to the US Pre-Elite Heavyweight team. He spent the summer of 1991 in Cuba as a member of the Pan American team and was a member of the 1992-95 US World Championship teams. Most recently, Davenport was a member of the 1996 Olympic Team in Atlanta, GA.

Davenport's experiences have carried the Washington College rowing program to great levels of competition and have earned the team several Dad Vail and IRA medals.

Karin  Hughes is in her sixth season as the Women’s Rowing Coach.  Prior to accepting the Novice Women's position, Hughes assisted with the Freshmen Men’s Crew and the Varsity Women’s Crew.  A 1991 graduate of the US Naval Academy, Hughes was the Captain of the Varsity Women’s Crew and served in the US Navy as a Supply Corps Officer following graduation.

A member of the 1997 National Rowing Team, she stroked the Women’s Double in the World Championships at Aigubelette, France.  In 1998, Hughes and her partner won the Championship Double at the Head of the Charles in Boston, MA.  In 1999 Hughes  won a Silver Medal as the stroke of the Women's Double in the Pan American Games in Winnipeg, Manitoba.

Luecke coaches at ZLAC Rowing club, an all women's club in San Diego. His primary responsibility is coaching the novices and coxswains, but he also works with the varsity squad and performs boatwork. Luecke was assistant coach and boatman with Notre Dame Women's Rowing from January 1999 until August 2001. He rowed lightweight and coxed at Northwestern University from 1994 until his graduation in 1998.

After spending four years as the head men’s rowing coach and boatright at Miami, Fla., Jim Mitchell joins West Virginia University this season as an Assistant Coach and Recruiting Coordinator.

At Miami, Mitchell’s crews won the varsity eight Southeast Head Race championship, numerous state titles and the Florida State championship team point trophy in 2001.

Prior to working with the Hurricanes, Mitchell served for five years as the head coach of the Atlanta Junior Rowing Association (AJRA) in Atlanta, Ga. During his tenure at AJRA, Mitchell supervised over 80 high school rowers who competed regularly at the national level. Many of his high school athletes went on to compete at the collegiate level.

Mitchell received a bachelor of science degree in business administration at Tennessee-Chattanooga in 1992 and earned his master’s in special education from Georgia State. While an undergraduate, Mitchell was a member of the UTC varsity rowing and wrestling teams. He and his wife, Julie, reside in Morgantown.

After serving as an assistant coach in 1998-99, Gerry Quinlan is in his third-year as head women’s varsity coach at Saint Joseph’s University. A 1991 graduate of the University of Notre Dame, Quinlan brings more than a decade of collegiate head coaching experience to Hawk Hill.

Since his arrival at SJU, Quinlan has been one of the driving forces behind the growth of both the men’s and women’s rowing programs. Nearly doubling in participation during his tenure, Quinlan has been active in the development of the new boathouse, maintaining alumni support and coordinating several local regattas.

Quinlan’s resume includes a six-year stint as the head coach of Northwestern University’s men’s and women’s programs and a three-year stint as the head women’s coach at Notre Dame. His teams have won medals at the Dad Vail Regatta, Champion International Collegiate Regatta, and the Head of the Charles and have competed in the Henley Royal Regatta and the Mexico City International Championships.

During his prep career, Quinlan rowed at Monsignor Bonner High School. He then went on to a successful career at the college level for the Irish.

A 1996 graduate of the University of Kansas, Romens was a member of the Varsity Rowing Team.  Following graduation, Romens assumed an assistant coaching position at Kansas for two years before accepting the position at Michigan State.

Caren is currently the Novice Women's Coach at Washington College in Chestertown, Maryland.  Caren rowed for the University of Virginia from 1992 to 1996 and served as co-captain during her fourth year.  After graduation from UVa's Curry School of Education in 1997, Caren took a full time job as a high school history teacher in Fredericksburg, Virginia.  After teaching for four years, she accepted the position with Washington College and moved to Chestertown with her husband and now two-year-old son.

Nicky Stimpson is in her first year as the Novice/Assistant Varsity Coach.

Prior to coming to Navy, Stimpson coached two years as the Novice/Assistant Coach at Wesleyan University.  A 2000 graduate from Washington College, Stimpson was an integral member of both the Varsity Crew and Varsity Swim Team, co-captaining both squads her senior year as well as being named the Crew MVP. 

Martin Stone is in his fifth year as the Notre Dame Head Coach, Women's Rowing.

Since coming to the Golden Dome, Stone has put Notre Dame rowing on the map both on and off the water as the Irish finished the 2001-02 season ranked 16th nationally, narrowly missing an invitation to the NCAA Championships.

Before arriving at Notre Dame, Stone served as the women's rowing coach at the United States Naval Academy for five years. In 1994, Stone coached the Mids to a NCAA Division II national championship by winning the varsity eight title at the Champion International Collegiate Rowing Championships.

In 1992, Stone began his head coaching career at the U.S. Naval Academy. That same year, he directed the Mids' varsity eight to its first gold medal at the popular Dad Vail Regatta, the East Coast's largest crew regatta.

Currently coaching the highly successful junior program, WYRA, Swinford has had experience in coaching and competing at many levels.   A 1983 graduate of California-Berkeley, Swinford rowed on 5 US National Teams and the 1988 Olympic Team, winning the Gold in the 1986 World Championships in Nottingham, England.  As a coach, Swinford has coached programs at  several universities such as Jacksonville University and clubs, including Penn AC where he helped coach the 1996 World Champion Women's 4-.

Taylor, a 1996 graduate of UNH and a three-year member of the Women's Crew program, begins her sixth year on the coaching staff at the University of New Hampshire. Taylor has served as the Head coach since 1999. In addition, she was the Graduate Assistant in 1997-98, working with both the Novice and the Varsity teams under the direction of National Team Member and Varsity Coach Katie Scanlon. Taylor was the Women's Novice coach from 1998-99. She led a powerful Novice team to an undefeated season in their conference and the school's first ever gold medal at both the New England Championships and ECAC's in Worcester, MA. In 1999, the Wildcats also won the all-around Women's Point Trophy at ECAC's.

Taylor continues to guide the Wildcats to the top ranks in their region. In 2000, Taylor led the Varsity to a 7th place finish at New Englands and a 5th place finish at ECAC's. At the New England Championships in 2001, the Second Varsity Eight placed 7th while the Varsity Eight placed a strong 5th. Last October, the Varsity Eight placed 9th in the Women's Club Eight at the prestigious Head of the Charles Regatta in Boston, MA.

Prior to joining the coaching staff at UNH, Taylor coached the Novice Girls at Phillips Exeter Academy for five seasons. Taylor graduated from the University of New Hampshire in 1996 with a degree in Political Science and History. She earned her Masters in Early American History from UNH in 2002