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Men's Crew/RowingPreston Weinard

Men's Crew/Rowing Head Coach / Rowing

Jacksonville University

NCAA DI • Atlantic Sun Conference | ASC

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5.0

Caring

5.0

Motivational

4.0

Knowledgeable

4.0

Honest

5.0

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AccessibleHonestBelieves In YouCares About AcademicsCreates A Great Team Culture

I have had some bad coaches since I started rowing but Preston has showed me that there are still coaches that care about the rower and not just results. His teams aren't without their ups and downs but you can always see how deeply he cares and how much he wants the team as a whole to succeed. The team has only continued to get faster under his leadership and they've achieved the highest team GPAs at the same time.

Men's Crew/RowingPreston Weinard

Men's Crew/Rowing Head Coach / Rowing

Jacksonville University

NCAA DI • Atlantic Sun Conference | ASC

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Would Recommend

Overall

1.0

Caring

1.0

Motivational

1.0

Knowledgeable

1.0

Honest

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DisorganizedPoor Communication

Coach Weinard is by far one of the worst coaches I have ever worked with. He is unorganized, unprofessional, and just flat out dumb when it comes to the sport of rowing. No wonder he is unsuccessful and couldn’t go anywhere else but the messy team that he was a part of years before. He cares more about being the rowers’ buddy than actually coaching them or coming up with a logical training plan. Preston has the unique ability of having athletes with so much potential and doing absolutely nothing with them. He doesn’t increase any rowers potentials or teach them improvements to their rowing skills. He also doesn’t know a thing when it comes to coxing or how to coach a coxswain. The program would be better run by a high schooler. It’s no mystery why the guys team does worse than the girls team every year, or for that fact, any other team. The program doesn’t send kids to national teams or any next levels of rowing. The only boats coach Weinard has produced that weren’t absolute embarrassments to the men’s college rowing world were boats that were thrown together at the last minute with absolutely no training plan. The most successful boat in his coaching career included a coxswain he just threw in who had never coxed a race before that one. He is the definition of laziness, pure luck, and “winging it”. There is no logic, strategy, or honestly a single decent thought that goes through that coaches head. He is wasting a program with so many resources and so much potential. If you have any respect for yourself as a rower, coxswain, or assistant coach, don’t waste a minute working with this man.