Pete Cipollone on what makes a great coxswain
Olympic gold medalist coxswain Pete Cipollone shares what makes a great coxswain
The Coxswain Archive
National team coxswains, rowers and coaches share their tips and advice for coxswains.
Featured coxswain posts
Marcus McElhenney’s Tips for When You’re Behind
Remember the rowers are listening to you and no matter what the situation you can always take a positive tone.
Ned DelGuercio Shares Tips on Coxing a 2k
Anything that comes through your microphone should be useful information. Thinking out loud can make you a liability to your crew’s performance.
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Ned DelGuercio Shares Tips on Coxing a 2k
Anything that comes through your microphone should be useful information. Thinking out loud can make you a liability to your crew’s performance.
Marcus McElhenney’s Tips for When You’re Behind
Remember the rowers are listening to you and no matter what the situation you can always take a positive tone.
Marcus McElhenney Discusses Getting Involved
Do as much as the rowers and then more.
Losing weight as a coxswain
Team USA coxswain Pete Cipollone shares his thoughts on losing weight as a coxswain
Coaching Novice Coxswains
Team USA coxswain Pete Cipollone shares his thoughts on coaching novice coxswains.
Rowing experience for coxswains
Olympic Gold Medalist Pete Cipollone shares his views on coxswains getting rowing experience.
Ned DelGuercio Shares How to Fix Poor Rhythm
It is very difficult to fix rhythm by calling direct changes to the rhythm. Instead, work on connection, suspension, and power calls.
A Focus on Steering Straight
Going straight is hard! Still, there are some things you can to do to get good at it.
Marcus McElhenney Discusses Setting the Right Tone
Team USA coxswain Marcus McElhenney shares how to set the right tone to gain a competitive advantage
Learning from the coxswain seat
Feeling the changes from the seat is such an essential part of learning, so I am not sure there is anything you can read that will get you there.
The Hard Winter Months: A Coxswain in the Winter
Now is the time to listen to those recordings that we took months back and never listened to because we hate to.
The Role of a National Team Coxswain
At the elite level, there are two responsibilities that all coxswains must do all the time, and those are to be at weight (55.0 kg) and to steer straight.
Ned DelGuercio Discusses Coxswain Rivalries
You have to respect your rival. Having competition forces you to get better.
Improving Team Dynamics as a Coxswain
Darcy Marquardt shares tips on goal-setting and trust-building as a way to build strong team dynamics.
Coach Mike Teti on what makes a good coxswain
Mike Teti shares his summary of the key traits that make for a good coxswain.
Marcus McElhenney shares rowing lessons he applies at school
One of the best things I learned from rowing [is by] not being afraid to screw up while still trying my hardest all the time, I always walk away with something.
Learning from Other Coxswains – A Tribute to Acer Nethercott
If coxswains get along, the whole team gets better and so do they. If they do not, it can be chaos and practices are disrupted.
Pete Cipollone Shares How to Get a Feel for the Boat
Boat feel is critical for choosing the right technical calls to make your crew go faster.
Pete Cipollone Shares How to Avoid Being “Noise”
Pete Cipollone shares coxswain tips on how to avoid rowers tuning you out.
Leigh Heyman Addresses the Age Issue
Leigh Heyman shares his experience of becoming a national team coxswain in his 30’s.
Pete Cipollone on what makes a great coxswain
Olympic gold medalist coxswain Pete Cipollone shares what makes a great coxswain
The Longest Odds
Go behind the scenes of the Olympic Journey with The Longest Odds, a photo-documentary that goes inside the Beijing and London Olympic journey of the US Olympic rowing team.
This book illustrates what you do not see on television – it’s a raw look at what athletes go through during their years-long journeys much before anything appears on television.
The Longest Odds allows us to see those highs and lows, the conflicts, joy, exhaustion, elation, fear – and most of all, the bonds of friendship being indelibly forged.