Upper Valley Rowing Foundation

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.

Emerson Curry

Emerson began his rowing career in 2002 as a sophomore at the Kent School. His senior year he captained the crew to an undefeated duel season and competed at the Marlow and Reading Regattas in the UK. As a 2008 Dartmouth College graduate, Emerson was a member of the Big Green’s 2007 Ivy League and Eastern Sprints championship boat. Curry was a three-year letterman for the Big Green and captained the squad as a senior. He earned All-Ivy League honors in 2007 when the varsity eight won the Eastern Sprints Championship. Curry has received numerous awards for his dedication to Dartmouth rowing. The Louis C. Breer Cup for leadership and sportsmanship on the Dartmouth Varsity Lightweight Crew, The Thaddeus Seymour Rowing Award for the oarsman who has given the most to Dartmouth Crew and the Class of 1991 award for the underclassman who demonstrates leadership, competence, and friendship on and off the water. In the past year Emerson has been the 2nd assistant coach for the Harvard Lightweight Men and has been rowing with the High Performance program at Riverside Boat Club.

Dick Grossman

Dick Grossman has been involved in rowing since 1961, when he started as a coxswain at Noble & Greenough School. Four years coxing at Nobles, followed by four years with the Harvard Heavyweights, established the base for a long and distinguished international career which included participation on five United States teams, and culminated with his winning a silver medal at the 1975 World Championships in Nottingham, England. He coached the U. S. crews in the 1977 Maccabiah Games in Israel to five gold medals and one silver. He coached at five U.S. Lightweight Team selection camps from 1979-1984, and managed the U.S. team at the World Championships in three of those years. He was a member of the U.S. Lightweight Rowing Committee for ten years, and was President of the EARC Lightweight Coaches Committee from 1980-1991. Dick was the Head Lightweight Coach at Dartmouth for 30 years. He'll be coaching the UVRF Men's competive program.

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.

Amanda Purcell

Amanda is wrapping up her second year with Brown University as an assistant coach, and moving into the third. At the same time, she's studying to become a certified fitness trainer and nutritionist - working with training plans for great cross-training and rehab as well. Last year Brown won the NCAA Team Championship, as well as the Eastern Sprints. Prior to Brown, she coached the V4+a and V4+b at The Ohio State University (where she earned her undergraduate degree in Music Education) and ended up placing 10th at NCAA's with 4 freshmen, walk-on rowers. Amanda's own rowing aspirations stopped short during training for the national team when a recurring shoulder injury and subsequent surgery took her out of the action. Leading up through college she rowed in the JV8 for her first spring season and spent the next 3 in the V8, working her way up to a 5th place finish at NCAA's, 3x 1st place finish at the South-Central Regional Championships, 2nd place finished at the Big Ten Championships, and a 2nd place International/1st place Collegiate finish at CRASH-B's with a time of 6:48. Her personal 2K erg record is 6:41- she has aspirations to finish what she had started and finally break into the '30's someday!

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.