Meet the Coaches
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Trish Miles - DBC Co-FounderTrish Miles brings more than 30 years of rowing and coaching experience at the junior, college, and masters levels to Dayton Boat Club
She and her husband Mike Miles started the UD rowing program in 1991 and were instrumental in starting the Atlantic 10 Championships in the sport. Trish and Mike also co-founded Dayton Boat Club in 2003 Miles has won multiple medals in lightweight events at club and elite National championships. In 1999 she was a finalist for the U.S Trials of the World Championships. That same season, Miles was the national champion in the lightweight single (club) and the lightweight double (elite). She also won the master’s single division at the Head of the Charles, and has medaled multiple times in the lightweight and masters single events there. In 1999 she was 3rd at the C.R.A.S.H. - B's World Indoor Rowing Championships. From 2004-06 she was the masters/adult women’s coach for Dayton Boat Club, and from 2006-20 she was the high school rowing coach for the novice boys, novice girls, and varsity boys. She coached the novice boys 4+ and novice girls 8+ to medals at the Midwest Championships. Most recently she was the novice women's coach at the University of Dayton from 2021 -2024, where she coached crews that competed against varsity crews and finished fourth at the A-10 Championships in the varsity events. |
Spencer Mullins - Head Novice CoachSpencer began rowing in 2012 as an 8th grader at GDRA. He sculled through high school at GDRA while attending Chaminade Julienne and qualified for youth nationals 3 times in the lightweight double, winning the event at Midwest in 2016 and helping GDRA secure the boy’s sculling team points trophy that year. Spencer continued his rowing career at Purdue University for their club team for 2 years before retiring from competitive rowing to focus on his studies. Spencer joined DBC as a coach in the late winter of 2023.
Spencer resides in Dayton and works as a test technician for Leonardo DRS in Beavercreek and focuses on testing and troubleshooting Naval Link-11 and Link-22 radio modems. |
Scott Braum - Varsity CoachScott comes to the DBC staff as the parent of a former DBC rower who has graduated from college and is now coaching in Ann Arbor. 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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Danny Raimondi - Masters Head CoachDanny Raimondi joined DBC as the masters head coach in February 2022. A Pittsburgh native, he rowed for Central Catholic High School and Three Rivers Rowing Association, where he took second in the USRowing Youth Nationals Men's 8. He earned a bachelor's in mechanical engineering from the University of Dayton and a master's in additive manufacturing and design from Penn State and is a civilian employee at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.
As a coach, Raimondi is focused on fully realizing the potential of adult athletes of all ages, cultivating a supportive team environment, and building the team's reputation as a competitive force across the Midwest and beyond. In 2023, the Masters qualified for their first national final in the women's 4+ event. |