University of Massachusetts (Amherst)
NCAA DI • A-10
Date: December 29, 2022
Would Recommend
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May come off as a nice guy, but he has no idea how to build a team environment. He is dishonest and combative when athletes bring up real concerns and issues. He wants to be a part of the popular cliques on the team and will overlook bullying of team members. He does not care about mental health, and anything he says when recruiting that may contradict that statement is completely performative. He is only focused on “building” the team with all international girls, big talk about our future as a program but really no action. I would have to guess any of these positive comments on this page came from his favorites athletes - if you don’t fall into that category (which is not based on performance, either), consider your career and all momentum shut down. He also has absolutely no respect for the extreme hard work of our walk-on athletes, anything he says about eventually granting scholarships to walk-ons is a lie. It doesn’t happen. I am also not sure if he knows what he is talking about concerning rowing coaching specifically. His corrections are often confusing and contradictory, and the way he decides upon lineups (at the last minute as well) is nonsensical and not based on numbers or performance. Overall, don’t come here no matter how much he pushes for it or what you see from athletes on officials, unless you want to leave hating the sport of rowing just like me- the team is slow and super fake and unhealthy socially. He lied to me and he will lie to you. I hope you see this if you are considering rowing under him, and that you run the other way. Really, I have no other motive in saying this than to help avoid you having to go through something even remotely similar to what I did.