Our Coaches
Most of the coaches listed below coach our regular on-the-water classes. All coaches listed below are available for private coaching: please see here for more information on private coaching (which is available only for club members).
Amy Abbot
Amy has been rowing for almost 40 years, starting out as a sculler in Cambridge, MA and then at Mount Holyoke College. After graduation, she continued rowing, coxing and coaching in Seattle with both masters and juniors crews (Green Lake, Mount Baker, Lake Washington), including a winning double at USRowing Junior Nationals. Amy continues to row and train every day in both sweeps and sculls, and has coached and coxed for the NBC masters, NBC juniors, Bay View Academy, East Bay Rowing and Duxbury Maritime School. In her own rowing career she has won at Club and Masters Nationals and Canadian Henley, but she also recognizes the intrinsic joy of rowing and stresses having fun and developing skills and navigation on the Seekonk. She is available for private coaching for singles/zephyrs, doubles/pairs, quads/fours and eights.
Joan Brush
Joan Brush is a longtime member of the Narragansett Boat Club and an active competitor. After graduating from RISD she came to NBC in ’96 and learned to row in the barge. Joan has more than 20 years’ experience competing in both sweeps and sculls and is a 5 time Head of the Charles medalist. She began coaching at NBC in 2012 at both the High School and Masters levels. Since that time, she has coached Juniors thru to Nationals and novice Masters to their very first competition. She believes anytime is a good time to be out on the water. Joan currently coaches NBC Programs and is available for private lessons by appointment.
Lisa Evans
Lisa Evans learned to love rowing at Noble and Greenough school where she rowed for eight seasons (including competing in the Head of the Charles in 1978). She rowed a year at Brown and then joined Narragansett Boat Club 22 years later where she sculls most mornings. Lisa has been coaching junior and master, novice and competitive rowers on and off the water at NBC since 2007. She is also the head coach of the Bay View Academy crew and has coached at Harvard-Radcliffe, East Bay Rowing and Cape Cod Community Rowing. Level II Certified, Lisa is a stickler for good technique and proper navigation. Lisa’s philosophy is that anyone who puts forth the effort should have the opportunity to race. She also encourages her athletes to be comfortable in any seat (sweep and sculling) including the coxswain seat.
Anne Fleet
Jill Hubbard
Jill has been a member of the Narragansett Boat Club since 1993. She learned to row at NBC and is both a sculler and sweep rower. She has competed and won medals in local and national sweep competitions. Jill is a USRowing Level II coach and has coached all ages, from beginner to advanced in the Learn to Row Program at NBC for nearly 20 years.
Emi Marchetti
Fran O'Donnell
Rick Richards
Rick is a long-time recreational rower at NBC and has been coaching in the adult and youth programs for over 5 years. He is interested in working with people who are beginning to row and helping them move on to an intermediate level of skill. His focus is on developing the skills rowers need to progress from a Zephyr to a flat-water single.
Daniela Roop
Daniela Roop was a member of the Brown University Women’s Crew for four years. Captain of the team and class of ’93. After graduating, she became the assistant coach of the Brown Women’s Crew for 3 years working with Phoebe and John Murphy. She joined the Narragansett Boat Club in 1993 and raced in numerous local regattas in both sculling and sweep rowing events since. She was the assistant coach of the Bay View Academy rowing team for 3 years working with Albin Moser as Head Coach. She has coached numerous masters rowing classes at NBC over the years and has recently started coaching the after school and summer competitive junior scullers.
Kristin San Bento
Kristin Mandsager San Bento first learned to scull under Jaime Rubini of Rubini Jewelers and Coach at T.C. Williams H.S. In
Gayle Simmons
Gayle discovered the NBC in her mid-thirties and, after one barge class, was hooked. Within two years she was coaching youth and adult barge and sculling classes, spending part of every day on the water in a single, double or quad and competing as often as possible. Fifteen years later her love for the sport has not waned; neither has her gratitude for every glorious 5:30am sunrise. Gayle is available for private sculling classes by appointment.
Andrew Voorhees
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Eric Watne
Adult Programs Coordinator
Kim Worrell
Kim first learned to row as a member of URI Women’s Crew. She learned to scull 15 years ago at NBC and has competed in local, regional, and national regattas in both sweep and sculling for the last 11 years. She was a girls lacrosse coach for 5 years before she began coaching rowing. Kim loves coaching and says it is an absolute joy to be coaching a sport that has become her passion!