In his sixteen seasons as head coach (eleven varsity and five club seasons), Mark Rothstein has transformed Michigan Rowing from a top-level club squad to one of the nation's elite varsity rowing programs. An excellent teacher and technician, Rothstein is passionate about coaching. "Our student-athletes should learn more about themselves and others through their experiences as members of this team than in any other collegiate pursuit," he says. "If they don't, we haven't done our job." At the University of Michigan, Rothstein has coached 4 U.S. Olympians, 2 Canadian Olympians, 5 U.S. World Champions, 14 Collegiate Rowing Coaches Association (CRCA) All-America Rowers, 4 Big Ten Rowers of the Year, and more than 15 athletes who also rowed for the U.S. or Canadian National teams. His University of Michigan Rowing Teams have been invited to the NCAA Championships ten times. With Rothstein as head coach, Michigan Women's Rowing won the Big Ten Championships in 2000, 2001, 2003, and 2004, and the NCAA Central Region Championships for five consecutive years, 1998-2002. Michigan Women's Rowing student-athletes coached by Rothstein have won 151 Academic All-Big Ten Conference Awards. Rothstein coached the United States Under-23 National Rowing Team's Coxless Four to a Bronze Medal in the 1999 Nations Cup, and guest coached at the U.S. Olympic Training Center in 2006 and 2007. Rothstein was named National Coach of the Year by the Collegiate Rowing Coaches Association in 2001; the Big Ten Coach of the Year in 2000, 2001, and 2004; Central Region Coach of the Year in 2001; and the recipient of the Joy of Sculling Coaches Award in 2001. Rothstein currently is serving in his second term as an elected three-year member of the Board of Directors for the Collegiate Rowing Coaches Association. Born and raised in Ann Arbor, Rothstein earned academic honor roll citations and was inducted into Pi Sigma Pi, the physics honor society, on his way to earning his Bachelor of Science degree at the University of Michigan in 1991. Rothstein continues to bridge academics and athletics, having married Alisse Portnoy, a professor in the University of Michigan's English department.

Kate Strum
Assistant Coach and
Director of Athlete Development
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Matt LeBlanc manages, repairs, and transports all of Michigan Rowing's boats and equipment and also manages the Michigan Boathouse. He has been part of the Michigan Rowing Staff since 1999. LeBlanc has been repairing boats since he was young, and in college he rowed for Grand Valley State. LeBlanc and his wife, former Michigan coxswain Belinda Koo, and their daughter Yvette live in Ypsilanti, Michigan.

Lisa Hass, the Athletic Trainer for Michigan Women's Rowing and Women's Gymnastics as well as a Coordinator of Athletic Medicine at the University of Michigan, was hired by the Athletic Department in 1991. Hass serves on the university's Athletic Medicine Advisory Board and on the Athletic Medicine Women's Health Board. She is from Fargo, North Dakota, and earned her Bachelor of Science from North Dakota State before earning her Master's degree at Western Michigan University. The Michigan Rowing team especially is excited to report that Hass is the United States Rowing National Team Trainer for the 2008 Olympics. Lisa also was the U.S. National Team Trainer for Rowing at the 2007 Pan American games and was the U.S. National Team Trainer for the 2002, 2003, 2006, and 2007 World Championships.

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Academic Counselor

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Caroline Mandel
Sports Dietician