Peter Cookson currently holds the High Performance Director (HPD) position at Rowing Canada Aviron. As an HPD he is responsible for the overall direction of the Canadian National rowing programs, with the end goal of producing World Championship and Olympic medalists.

To get to his position, Cookson has spent more than 40 years in rowing and has coached in numerous countries around the world, including South Africa for which he coached the South African sculler at the 2008 Olympic Games. He has coached for the Canadian National Team, University level rowing teams and has being heavily involved in the International Rowing Federation development program.

About Alan Campbell: Britain's single sculler for 2 Olympiads is our guest for December. His unconventional personal style, sharp personality and determination have made him a national treasure for Northern Ireland. Alan's sparring with Mahe Drysdale and the other members of the Great 8 have endeared him to fans around the world.

Alan is a Rowing World Cup Winner and Olympic medalist (having competed in 3 Olympic Games). He's also a 2 times winner of the Scullers Head of the River (2012 & 2008).

When you book your ticket, you can ask Alan a question. Join us and to listen as we delve into Alan's personal story.

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Mike is an expert in coaching and equipment handling for rowing, specifically rigging for rowing boats! He started his rowing career as a college freshman when he tripped over an oar. That started his passion for protecting rowing equipment and perfecting it's use by rowers. Since then he's won numerous awards for coach of the year (Coach of the Year at the Mid-Atlantic Rowing Conference 2013, National Coach of the Year from College Rowing Coaches Association), been part of World and Olympic rowing teams (Member of the 1992-95 U.S. World Rowing Championship teams and of the 1996 USA Olympic rowing Team that competed in Atlanta, GA) and touched the hearts of many elite rowers with his informative coaching.

Olympic medalist Scott Frandsen talks about his rowing career and the journey he's had. Now he coaches at Cal with several Olympic events and world championship regatta medals under his belt.

A master of coaching the flow and the mental prowess involved in rowing, Jim has been a lead coach for many years. In a way he is the coach of coaches, leading coaching seminars and conferences. His work helped produce more than 60 medals at several international competitions for Canadian rowing crews through his programs of coaching the coaches. For info on how to be the best coach you can be, or for athletes thinking about revamping their training regimes and putting themselves in the right frame of mind, this is your RowingChat.

A leading world coach, Robin coached the British Women's Pair racing team (Heather Stanning and Helen Glover) to Gold at the 2012 Olympic Games; he was the architect of the GB lightweight mens sweep crews who have dominated the event for the past 8 years and before then won 10 Boat Races for Cambridge University.

From a young age, Chelsea has taken up sport like a fish to water. She built up her rowing skills and experience at several organisations in Chattanooga and even became a youth rowing instructor there. She is incredibly active in the rowing community and provides insight on rowing while sparking discussion on many rowing subjects. Chelsea specialises in the difficult aspects of coaching and spends her time tackling them, such as Coaching the Coxswain.

A competitive rower at an early age, Duncan moved from representing New Zealand and rowing in Olympic teams, to becoming a professional coach with over 20 years experience. He coached all the way from the Canterbury Rowing Club (taking away national titles with the teams) to 20 plus other teams competing in various World Championships. He now has become a coach of coaches as a Coach Development Officer for the Otago Rowing Association.

Tim has wide experience coaching senior men and women and has coached Olympic and World Championship medal winning crews.

He has started 3 high performance rowing centers during his career including UTS (Sydney), California Rowing Club (San Francisco) and Tasmanian Rowing.

If you're looking for an extensive range of tools to bring up your rowing coaching, Xeno is a renowned expert. Taking away the gold in the 1996 Summer Olympics Men's Single Sculls, Xeno has since gone on to expert coaching and is known for his great detail of technical analysis, offering powerful training drills, and bringing inside information from his experiences that just "can't be found anywhere else" (Rob W.). In this chat we'll be going through Xeno's experiences in rowing, the tools he uses to help coaches improve their training, and how he can push your technique further for that winning edge.