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Coaches
- Jay Hammond - Head Coach
Coach Hammond began rowing competitively in high school at Phillips
Exeter Academy in Exeter, New Hampshire. He continued rowing
at Harvard College where he rowed on the Varsity Heavyweight squad.
After a successful career at Harvard (Eastern Sprints silver medal
First Freshman Heavyweight event, gold medal Junior Varsity Heavyweight
event and bronze medal Varsity Heavyweight event, gold medal San
Diego Crew Classic, undefeated record in the Harvard-Yale Race,
silver medal at the National Championships.)
Jay coached high school rowing in England. After a year
coaching, he went to Oxford where
he was in the (varsity) Blue Boat for the Boat Race against Cambridge
University. He
returned to the United States and coached high school rowing again
at the Middlesex
School in Concord, Massachusetts. While in his third year
of law school at Cornell University,
Jay coached the Cornell Freshman Lightweights.
Jay continues to get out on the water in a single scull and occasionally
enters rowing races
at the request of other "has beens" looking for an extra
body to fill out an eight.
- Joe Mariuzza - Novice Coach
Coach Joe Mariuzza
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Jonathan "Admiral"
Crist - Assistant Varsity Coach
Jonathan Crist began rowing at Central
in his sophomore year in the lightweight 4+ and junior 8+. During
the summers he shed the big sweep boats refining his technique
in the single scull at Steel City Rowing Club. He has attended
numerous conferences on coaching, technique, and physiology
and is US Rowing Level II certified. Jonathan
has been an integral part of Central Crew since the renaissance
beginning in 2004. He took over a novice program in the spring
of that year struggling to produce varsity level rowers. His
lasting achievement during this time was to put in place the
attitude and structure foreshadowing the program's current success
and its reputation as a proving ground for future Central champions.
Jonathan left Central Crew in 2006 to produce scholarship in
rhetorical theory at The University of Maine Graduate School.
However, his passion for physical excellence remained strong
during this time. Jonathan now returns in 2007 to Pittsburgh
and Central Crew pursuing a career in coaching, personal training,
and strength and conditioning. His goal is to one day own a
personal training only facility and guide others along the path
to health and fitness.
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Peter Lynch - Coxswain
Coach
Peter Lynch began coxing for Central
in the fall of 2001, graduating in the spring of 2005. He earned
three varsity letters as coxswain of the first eight during
his sophomore, junior, and senior years. He steered Central's
crew to its first varsity-level medals at the Head of the Ohio
and the Midwest Scholastic Championship, as well as its first
appearance at the Stotesbury Cup. Peter is also a recipient
of the Brendan Foley Spirit Award. After his first year of college,
Peter was the coxswain of the U23 lightweight eight for the
Pennsylvania Athletic Club (Penn AC), competing at the Royal
Canadian Henley Regatta. Peter began coaching at Central in
the winter of 2007.
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