IRCA Board of Directors
Co-president
A native of Whidbey Island, Washington, Greg currently serves as the head coach of the heavyweight men’s team at Princeton University. His teams have won numerous Eastern Sprints and IRA Championship medals, in addition to the Rowe Cup team points total in 2015 and 2016 at the Eastern Sprints. A 1996 Princeton graduate, he has been on the coaching staff since 1997, previously serving as the lightweight varsity and assistant coach before taking over as the heavyweight head coach in 2009. He has also coached at the US Senior and U23 level since 1999.
Co-president/Co-founder
Chris started rowing at Orange Coast College in 1977 before going on to race for both Cal and Oxford University. Following trips with the US National Team to the 1983 Pan Am games and the 1985 World Championships, Chris began coaching in 1992 at the US Naval Academy. In 1994 he joined the Wisconsin coaching staff as an assistant before being elevated to the head coach position in the fall of 1996 and Director of Rowing in 2023. In 2020 he, along with John Pojednic, founded the IRCA and since 2023 has served as the Coaches Representative on the IRA Board of Stewards.
Executive Director
Kayleigh oversees the day to day operations of the IRCA, in addition to her role as Director of Operations for the IRA and Senior Manger for Coaching Education at Community Rowing. A Marietta, OH native, she began coxing as a freshman in high school in 2002 and hasn’t stopped since. She previously spent three and a half years as the coxswain coach and volunteer assistant with the heavyweight men at MIT and six and a half years as the Director of Operations at Columbia University. In her spare time she works with high school and college coxswains through her blog “Ready all, row…”.
Paul is the Head Coach of Heavyweight Crew at Brown University. A 1989 graduate of Brown University with a degree in Biology, Cooke was the Freshmen Coach at Brown for 7 seasons before being named Head Coach. He started his coaching career with Green Lake Crew in Seattle and spent 3 years coaching the Freshmen Lightweights at Cornell in the early ‘90s. Cooke has also coached internationally, both for the US Junior National Team and the U23 US Team. From 2014-2018, he served as President of the IRA Coaches and representative to the IRA Stewards.
Paul is the Director of Rowing at Hobart and William Smith Colleges. Prior to coaching at HWS he was the head coach of men’s rowing at Bucknell University for 6 years. He began his college coaching career at Princeton University as a volunteer assistant coach. He began his coaching career in youth rowing as the head coach of Eastside HS and Gainesville Area Rowing. Paul earned a bachelor’s degree in psychology and a master’s degree in exercise and sports science from the University of Florida. He is a USRowing Level III and FISA Level II certified coach.
Colin has been the head coach of the Penn Lightweights since 2014. In 2019, he was named EARC and Ivy League Lightweight Coach of the Year after an historic season where the Varsity Eight won the Sprints championship for the first time since 1976. Prior to Penn, Colin was an assistant with the Yale lightweight team and a 3x U.S. National team rower, winning gold at the 2008 World Championships in the lightweight eight. He rowed for the Cornell lightweights in college and was inducted into the Cornell Athletic Hall of Fame in 2005.
Scott began his journey at Cal as a student-athlete, graduating in 2002 with a degree in Business Administration and three national championship titles. After completing a Master’s degree at Oxford and winning the Boat Race against Cambridge, Scott went on to race at three Olympic Games for Canada (2004, 2008, 2012), with the highlight being a Silver Medal in the pair in Beijing. He has been back at Cal coaching for nine years and is currently in his third as head coach.
Michael has been a part of UW Rowing since 1996, when he was a student-athlete and the captain and commodore of the 1996 men’s team. Since then, he has become a prominent and steadfast figure in the rowing community, most recently as the coach of the bronze medal winning United States Men’s 8+ at the Paris 2024 Olympics. In his 17 years as head coach, Washington has won the Intercollegiate Rowing Association varsity eight event a total of eight times, including five years in a row (2011-15).
Marc is the head coach of men's rowing at Williams College. He has been involved in the sport of rowing for over 25 years, including positions in D1, D2 and D3, along with ten years at the scholastic level and a summer coaching at the U19 World Championships. In 2022 his team won the inaugural D3 Championship event at the IRA, followed by a sweep of the 1V and 2V events at the 2023 IRA to secure their second straight national championship.
A 1986 gradate of Florida Tech, Tom has over 40 years of experience in rowing and coaching. Over his eight-year tenure on the US National Team, he was a 2x Olympic silver medallist and a 3x medallist at the World Championships. In 1989 Tom was voted US Rowing Athlete of the Year and in 1992 was captain of the US Olympic Rowing Team. Since 2008 Tom has been the head coach of the men’s program at Boston University and has helped guide the team to multiple top-10 finishes in recent years.
