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Ryan comes to Y150 from Bates College where he helped coach both
the men and women's first and second varsity boats - including
leading the men's team to a grand final finish at the ECAC National
Championships and placing in the top three nationally in Division
III, a first for the program. Ryan has coached on every level of
the sport from junior novices to pre-elites. He has worked with
four different national rowing federations and held coaching jobs
on three continents. Ryan just returned from Beijing this summer,
where he did consulting work in conjunction with the Chinese rowing
community prior to the 2008 Olympic Games. He worked as a coaching
intern with elements of the German team prior to the 2004 Athens
Games. A Bates graduate, Ryan also assisted with the men's program
at Wesleyan, sweeping the silver medals at the 2007 New England
Rowing Championships. Prior to his time at Wesleyan, he was the
frosh coach at Bates leading both the novice men and women to top
four championship finishes. He has also worked with pre-elite and
Olympic rowers from New Zealand and the United States. During his
six year career in coaching, 88% of the crews he has worked
directly with have made grand final appearances in their respective
championship racing. Sparks rowed at the Baylor School in
Chattanooga, TN before rowing and coaching for the University of
Otago (New Zealand) and Bates College as an undergraduate,
graduating with a degree in history. He hopes to enter the School
of Management at Yale to pursue an MBA.
