Rowers Choice - Innovating Rowing

We are back with an excellent new episode of Coaches Yelling featuring Premier Rowing League coaches Sarah Low, Matt Dignan, and Chris Leonard!

If you haven't watched an episode of Coaches Yelling yet, this is the one to watch. Over the course of 18 episodes, we have had some great conversations, some great debates and some amazing guests.

This week, we are wrapping up season 1 of Coaches Yelling. We conclude season 1 with 4 very special guests. Eric Murray is back again, as well as fellow olympic rowing champion, Susan Francia. James Hill joins us as well, not as a rower, but as a former NFL player, and our 4th guest needs no introduction. Jackie Joyner Kersee rounds out the panel for this weeks Coaches Yelling.

Q1. Should young athletes be specializing in sports, or should they play multiple sports?

Q2. What are some things that young athletes are not prepared for as they try to transition to being an elite athlete?

Q3. What advice would you give the 16 year old version of yourself?

Rower, Olympian, Lawyer, Producer - This woman does it all.

Alex had the opportunity to talk with Mary Mazzio, the founder of 50 Eggs Productions and producer of A Most Beautiful Thing, to talk rowing and life in 2020. Her energy and passion is amazing! Check it out!

Eric Murray is one of a kind. Alex talks with Eric about how he got started in rowing, rowing at an elite level, putting in hundreds of thousands of meters, rowing with Hamish Bond, life after rowing, his son and much much more.

This is a long podcast, but its one you dont want to miss!

4 excellent colleges coaches this week on Coaches Yelling! Kevin Harris [Tulsa], Alex Canale [Manhattan], Brian Conley [Lehigh] and Hadzo Habiblonic [OKC U] sit down and talk with Alex about college rowing and what to do this fall.

Dont miss this episode!

Want to learn about coxing from some of the best? This episode of Coaches Yelling is INTENSE. Four powerful names in rowing and coxing get after this excellent conversation focused around coxswains!

Mary Whipple [3x Olympic medalist], Noel Donaldson [5x Olympic Rowing Coach], Whitney Powell [Coxswain expert and 3x Ironman], and Mike Lehmann [University of Notre Dame mens Head Coach and Head of the Charles winner] all get after these questions!

q1. What is the best way to train coxswains on and off the water?

q2. Can a coxswain win or lose the race? or are they just field managers?

This week we had a great conversation about junior athletes. Guests Luke Walton, Mike Wallin, Grace Ludzak, and John Graves got together with Alex to discuss two questions around juniors -

q1. What is the biggest difference in training for High School and College athletes?

q2. What can High School and College coaches do to better prepare athletes for a shot at the olympics?

This week Alex got got to have a little different conversation- Alex talks with Kevin Goyena, a masters rower and founder of iCrew.Club. They talk a little bit about Bill Gates, Kevins start into the sport as well as what led him to come up with iCrew.Club!

Alex is back this week with 4 more moms who coach! They talk about things they have faced and overcome, as well as solutions to address the issues moving forward. It is another great conversation to further the sport!

Guests include: Sarah Puddiecombe, Catherine Starr, Beth Anderson and Anna Goodale!

Having no boat race this year sucked, but Alex got the chance to sit down with Cambridge Women and Lightweight Head Coach Rob Weber to talk about his rowing journey and coaching at Cambridge.