How do coaches develop their skills in USA?
US Rowing has a mentoring programme for coaches to meet more accomplished coaches. It takes initiative from young coaches to reach out. Sweep programmes produce most coaches. There is a dearth of sculling coaches. Except for the national team, there are no full time paid sculling coaches who can coach across the country. How does sculling compare to sweep in US? There needs to be an expansion of sculling education in US. The quality of coaches we need to give scullers a clear track from school to U23 to elite level competitions. I think you can’t convert a sweep rower to a sculler once he’s developed as a sweep rower. It takes 6 years to reach international standard and if someone’s done sweep for part of that time and then switches to sculling there’s a need for extra years of practice before he’s ready for international competition in sculling. A junior in my programme will scull for 4 years and then at College will probably be in a sweep crew. If he wants to represent his country, i
