Skidmore College
NCAA DIII • NULL
Date: July 16, 2024
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Manny is an amazing coach that approaches the sport of rowing in a very unconventional way. He puts extreme focus on team unity and using teammates as vessels for motivation. This team focus allows each member of the team to be their own individual leader and facilitates a friendly but necessary peer-to-peer competitiveness. As a coach he emphasizes the importance of academics and encourages rowers to attend sports psychology sessions that break down the meaning of leadership. These sessions are typically 45' - 1 hr long but teach athletes how to standout beyond the confines of their sport. As far as rowing goes, he does a very good job at laying out his plan and ambitions for each season. He has a rotating schedule of easy, medium, or hard weeks. This both eases rowers into the beginning of the season and then helps to facilitate leaps in physical ability as the season progresses. He is very good at debriefing with each boat after races, understanding what went right, wrong, and what could be done better. These small things build and have allowed him to grow a program that was in shambles after Covid-19 lockdowns to one that is beginning to climb up the DIII ranks. One critique is that he is not always the greatest at giving clear on the water instruction for correcting technique. But we have another coach that is fairly good at giving tech pointers.