Coach Kelsey joined AB Crew in Fall 2022 as the Novice Boys coach.
Kelsey was born into a rowing family, and began coxing at the beginning of High School for Oakland Strokes in California. She was recruited to UMass by Olympic rower & coach Jim Dietz, and continued to cox at a high level in college. She has had the opportunity to race with UMass at NCAA’s, IRA’s and at Women’s Henley over the course of her college career. She stayed at UMass for her Masters and volunteer coached during the year while earning her Masters in Political Science.
In the summers she coaches for Ready Set Row as both a rowing and a coxswain coach, and has focused on building a manual for developing coxswains in their early careers. When not rowing (or talking about rowing!) she likes to read history books and go for runs.
Coach Lars started their rowing career at Wayland-Weston High School. Captain of both novice and varsity squads, they fell in love with rowing and got recruited to Wesleyan University, competing in the Varsity 8+ at NCAAs all 4 years and taking gold at the Charles in the Collegiate 8+ back in 2016.
Coach Lars served as head coach at St. Mark’s School for 2 years, and is now thrilled to be on AB Crew. When Coach isn’t at AB, they are coaching adult novices and the paraplegic team at CRI, working on their master’s in Music Education at Boston University, hiking, writing music, singing in their a cappella group, hosting open mics, and hanging out with their frog named Gibby and their Axolotl named Silly.
Coach Houston’s rowing career began when they were a freshman in high school, at Arlington-Belmont for three years before transitioning to CRI. Following this, Coach Houston was recruited to a Division 1 program at UMass Amherst, where they rowed for 3.5 years before graduating a semester early.
During the past few summers Coach Houston has coached at DBMS crew, the Olympic Development Program in Jacksonville, FL, and Community Rowing Incorporated (CRI). When not on the water they really enjoy long walks, playing with pets, and maybe a little cooking here and there. Coach look forward to continuing my coaching journey at Arlington Belmont!
Coach Lizzy started her coxing career in 2012 at AB Crew. Leaving high school a year early, she coxed at a brand new D3 program in 2015 which got a bid in HOCR and went on to place third in conference finals in only their second year. Since then, she’s been competing with the CRI Women’s Competitive team where she’s now a 2x Masters National Champion, Masters Royal Canadian Henley Regatta winner, and has placed in the top half in HOCR.
Coaching has always been a passion of Lizzy’s, starting in 2018 she coached multiple youth recreational classes both sweeping and sculling and was the Assistant Corporate Rowing Specialist at CRI. Most recently she was an assistant coach on the Novice/ U17 girls squad at CRI. She’s most happy and grateful to be back where it all started at AB Crew.
Outside of rowing Lizzy is currently assisting with events at a small company out of Newton and is passionate about the Bruins, F1, vintage cars and French food.
Coach Catherine started rowing at the University of Nebraska and still rows and competes in the masters category. She has coached for Creighton University’s Women’s D1 Rowing team, University of New Hampshire, and Brandeis University.
As president and head coach of Omaha Rowing Association, she grew three high school teams from five junior rowers and has sent the masters team to USRowing Masters Nationals and boats to The Head of the Charles. She is also a USRowing referee and was LOC for the first combined Nebraska and Iowa State Games Regatta.
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