2010 UVRF Coaches

Rowan Carroll

Rowan began her rowing career at Mount Holyoke College in 1989 with Head Coach Fred Cressman. She went on to captain the rowing team at the University of Nottingham, England before competing for England in 1994 and 1995 rowing for Notts County Rowing Association. She moved to Sydney, Australia in 1995 to row with elite coach Tim McLaren, where she competed in the inaugural race at the Olympic rowing course in Penrith. Following her return to England she rowed for the British National team from 1998 to 2001 in both sweep and sculling events. She competed at the 1994 Commonwealth Regatta; 1998 to 2001 World Cup events; the 1998 World Championships; 2000 Olympic Games; 1997 and 1998 Royal Henley Regatta and many other national and international events. Rowan moved to Hanover in 2003 where she is a Realtor with Coldwell Banker Redpath. She has been rowing and coaching with UVRF since 2004, and coached at Hanover High from 2004 to 2006.

Brian Conley

Brian began rowing for St. Joseph's Prep in Philadelphia posting a 33-5 record and was commodore and captain of the lightweight rowing team at the University of Pennsylvania from 2000 - 2002. During the summers of 2001 - 2003, Brian rowed at a club called Penn AC and during his three summers won 10 medals at the US Rowing National Championships including 2 gold. After graduating from college, Brian went on to become the head coach at Lower Merion High school turning the team around from finishing last in most regattas to his varsity lightweight 4+ winning the Scholastic National Championship and his women's varsity 4+ taking the bronze in 2006. He has also coached the Penn AC teams to victories at the US Rowing National Championships and Canadian Henley. Brian is currently the Freshmen Lightweight Coach at Dartmouh College and is excited to work with UVRF's competitive women again.

Jason Cottingham

Jason began his rowing career in 2003 with The University of Alabama club rowing program. During his rowing career, he excelled to become the president of the team in 2005 and represented The Univerisity of Alabama in multiple Head of the Charles and Dad Vail Regattas. He spent the summer of 2006 in Boston competing for Community Rowing Inc.

in the 2006 USRowing National Championships as well as the 2006 Royal Canadian Henley Regatta. Jason began coaching at Alabama in 2007 and co-founded a community adult rowing program, the Black Warrior Rowing Club, to serve the Tuscaloosa and Northport, AL communities. Jason is completing his Master’s Degree in Aerospace Engineering and will be moving to the Upper Valley in June to coach the UVRF Competitive Women's and Men's programs and to serve as a volunteer assistant coach for the Dartmouth Men’s Lightweight Rowing Program beginning in the Fall, 2010. Jason is a firm believer that good, technical rowing must be mastered, and is the foundation for gaining long-term boat speed.

Liz Harrison

Liz began rowing in 1986 at the University of Massachusetts, where she rowed for four years.  Upon graduation, Liz accepted a position at Trinity College, where she coached the novice women's team.   The following year, Liz returned to coach the UMass novice women's team, during which she acquired many valuable skills; most notably how to drive a boat trailer several hundred miles on very little sleep. After spending many years in North Carolina in the wedding industry, Liz relocated back to New England with her husband and twin girls. She is happy to be involved in rowing again, and very much looking forward to coaching at UVRF.

Carin Reynolds

Carin Reynolds began her rowing career in 1982 during her sophomore summer at Dartmouth in the precursor to the UVRF Learn to Row program. After two successful years rowing for the Dartmouth Crew, including an undefeated varsity season and medaling at the Women's Sprints and Head of the Charles, she moved on to the United States Lightweight Women's National Rowing Team, and won a gold medal at the World Championships in 1984. She has competed and medaled nationally and internationally in both sweep and sculling boats at Nationals, Worlds, the Goodwill Games, the World University Games and the Royal Canadian Henley Regatta. Carin took a 10 year hiatus from rowing during the 1990s to go to law school and live and work in New York City, but came to her senses in 1999 and returned with her family to the Upper Valley where she has been rowing, training and competing in both sweeps and sculls ever since. Carin's passion is introducing non-rowers to crew, and coaching novices.

Carin's coaching resume includes: Dartmouth College - Women's Novice Coach 1986-88; Hanover High School - Girls Novice Coach 1999-present. She's been coaching the UVRF Learn to Row Sweep program and Sculling Clinics since 2002.

Barrett Womack

Barrett Womack started rowing under the instruction of Peter Kermond in 2006 as a junior at Hanover High School. After graduation, he began rowing for Bucknell University, where he has been a first varsity rower for the past three years. His freshman year he rowed both in the first Novice and first Varsity boats, as the program was quite small at the time. He earned a silver medal in the inaugural ACRA national championships as a novice, and recently earned a second in the first Varsity event this past year. As a current competitive rower he is passionate about the sport and is eager to pass on his knowledge to as many people as possible. Barrett will be coaching the novice & intermediate groups with Carin Reynolds.