Meet the Coaches
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Joe Connelly - Head CoachCincinnati native Joe Connelly comes to Dayton Boat Club from perennial rowing powerhouse Cincinnati Junior Rowing Club. His top novice boys’ and girls’ crews went undefeated in spring sprint racing from 2000 to 2003, and in the late 1990s, when he was an assistant varsity coach, the team took first in several high-profile events of the prestigious Royal Canadian Henley Regatta. After serving as an US Marine from 2003-2012, Joe joined DBC in 2016 as the Head Novice Team Coach and transitioned to the Varsity Team in the spring 2018. Coaches Joe, Mitch, and Mike qualified 3 women's boats for 2018 USRowing Youth National Championships and the DBC women's open 4+ went on to win the bronze medal. In Dec 2018, Joe was chosen as a coach representing the Midwest by USRowing for the Youth Regional Challenge.
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Mike Miles - Juniors Varsity CoachMike Miles served as head coach of the University of Dayton Crew since its inception in 1991, and continued in that same capacity as it moved to the varsity level in 1996. He retired from the UD in 2003, after leading the NCAA Division 1 crew to be one of the top non-scholarship programs in the country.
Miles was named Atlantic 10 Coach of the Year in 2002 after guiding the Flyers varsity eight to a 2nd place finish at the A-10 Championships, finishing seconds behind the nationally-ranked UMass Minutemen, and ahead of the ranked GWU Varsity 8. In the effort to develop rowing as a varsity sport at UD, Mike contacted the Atlantic 10 Rowing Coaches in 1996 to initiate the A-10 Rowing Championships. A two-time letterman as a rower at Cornell University, Mike is an engineer and executive with Booz Allen Hamilton. He has coached two world champions, members of the US National Team (Bernadette Marten and Molly Bruggeman). He has coached at the USRowing Junior National Team Development Camp, and has coached approximately ten DBC crews that have medaled and/or finished in the Grand Finals at US National competitions. |
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Madison Doty - U14 Head CoachBorn and raised in Cincinnati, Ohio, Madison grew up playing competitive soccer. During her 4-years at the University of Dayton (UD) she found rowing as an outlet for her competitive nature. At UD, she gained experience as both a rower and a coxswain, but ultimately she found her love for the sport and had great success in the coxswain seat in her sophomore year. She continued as a coxswain throughout the remainder of her UD rowing career. She took 3rd at the DadVails regatta in the V8+ peti-finals in her junior year and 4th at the A-10 championships with the V8+ her senior year. Madison was also chosen for the second team all-conference in her senior year. She graduated from UD in 2017 with a Bachelor of Science in psychology and international business management. Currently, she works as a research assistant for The Rucks Group, a research and evaluation firm in Dayton, Ohio. Madison joined DBC for the inaugural 2018 fall U14 season and is excited to work with this younger team to help them find their love of rowing and get them started on their own successful rowing career at DBC.
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Gavin Sebald - Juniors CoachGavin, a 2014 Springboro High School graduate, joined the DBC coaching staff in the Fall of 2018. After training and competing on the national level while at Dayton Boat Club, Gavin has returned to DBC to pass on his enthusiasm for the sport to the program that was that was so influential in his own rowing success. Gavin started his rowing career with Dayton Boat Club when he was in the 8th grade. He competed at US Rowing Youth National Championships in 2012, 2013 and 2014 and went on to briefly row with the Jr National team. He also raced at the Canandian Henley in 2013. After high school, Gavin was recruited by and signed with the Syracuse University D1 rowing program. In addition to coaching with DBC, Gavin is currently a physicist for a small research company that is pioneering A.I. based additive manufacturing for aerospace and defense applications.
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Scott Braum - U14 CoachScott comes to the U14 staff as the parent of a former DBC rower who is now rowing in college, and he has spent a lifetime involved in every aspect of youth sports from athlete to parent to coach to booster to administrator. While he has a passion for youth sports in general, he has seen firsthand the impact that rowing can have on a child’s life, whether he or she is a gifted natural athlete or a scrappy kid with a big heart who just won’t quit. He believes that rowing offers each athlete an opportunity to learn things about themselves and others both on and off the water. When his daughter came home from Learn To Row years ago, she told him she wanted to quit everything she was doing in order to row. That, of course, sounded crazy. Now, however, after several years, countless thousands of miles, who knows how many scorching, freezing, and storming races, and his own inglorious rowing career, he is thrilled to have the opportunity to continue the craziness by giving something back to the sport that has impacted his family in so many ways.
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Lydia Schmitt- Novice / U14 CoachLydia Schmitt a Dayton, Ohio native and graduate of Chaminade Julienne class of 2013, started rowing with DBC when she was only 12 years old. While rowing with DBC she went on to compete in both the 2012 and 2013 Youth Nationals as a lightweight rower, placing in the top ten both years. Lydia was awarded a scholarship to row at the University of Charleston in West Virginia where she then continued her rowing career. While at UCWV she went on to compete in many races, including the NCAA DII Championships. Lydia concluded her rowing career in 2017 with 10 years under her belt and an appreciation and passion for rowing that she hoped one day she would be able to share again.
Upon graduating in 2017, with her Bachelor of Science degree in Health Promotion she was accepted in the Peace Corps, where she served as a health volunteer in Tanzania, Africa. After returning from Tanzania she started working for the company Trustmark as a Health Fitness Professional/Coordinator, where she currently develops health programs for over two thousand employees, personal trains, and teaches group fitness classes. She now resides in Waynesville, Ohio with her boyfriend and dog (Gannon) and cat (Boga which is Swahili for pumpkin). |
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Marty Carrabine - Masters CoachMarty started rowing in 2009 under Coach Mitch Vossler at the University of Dayton. He then became head coach of the University of Dayton Men’s team in 2013. Marty graduated from Hudson High School in Cleveland, OH with four years as a member of the men’s swim team. Marty also coaches the Dayton Boat Club’s Masters team. Under his watch the Masters have had very successful seasons, winning numerous medals.
Julie Wittmann - Masters CoachJulie has been rowing with the Dayton Boat Club since its formation. She started with Learn-To-Row classes under direction of Derek Copeland and Trish Miles. During her high school years at Chaminade Julienne HS, Julie began competing with the DBC Juniors under Coach Mike Miles and continued to row in college for the University of Dayton. Julie is currently coaching the Dayton Boat Club’s Masters team and helps coach the Juniors from time to time.
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Molly Bruggeman - Visiting CoachMolly (left in photo) is currently training at the USRowing Training Center in Princeton, NJ where she coached for Mercer Juniors with the novice boys in the spring. Representing the United States, she has won 3 international gold medals, the most recent from the 2- at the Pan American Games in Toronto. She graduated from the University of Notre Dame (where she was a 3-time NCAA All-American) in 2014. A graduate of Chaminade-Julienne HS, Molly started her rowing career with the Dayton Boat Club.
Annie Haley- Visiting CoachAnnie (right in photo) is a member of the Wesleyan women’s crew coaching staff. With eight years of competitive rowing experience, she is a 2014 graduate of the Institute for Rowing Leadership at Community Rowing, Inc. in Boston. She coached the Massachusetts Institute of Technology varsity women during
the 2013-14 season where her third varsity 8+ finished fourth at EAWRC. A graduate of Williams College, she was a member of four consecutive NCAA Division III Team Championship crews, and is a three-time National Champion with the Ephs’ first varsity boat. Annie was named second-team all-NESCAC in 2011 and first-team all-NESCAC in 2013. She was also named 2013 Oarswoman of the Year for the Ephs. A native of Dayton, Ohio, Annie got her start in rowing at Dayton Boat Club. |