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\nStaff\n<\/h1>
\nWRC aims to provide athletes with the highest quality opportunities to excel in rowing, an effort anchored by our talented and knowledgeable coaching staff.

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\nOur coaches have a wealth of rowing and coaching experience at the junior, collegiate, and elite international levels. Every coach brings to WRC a particular style, focus, and expertise, and as a group the staff strives to find effective and engaging ways to help rowers achieve their full potential.\n<\/div>\n<\/div>
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\nKit Bennet\n<\/h1>
\nExecutive Director
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Kit hails from London, England, where he began coaching in 2000. He served as Head Coach at Hatfield College, part of Durham University (UK). Since coming stateside, he has been passionate about expanding rowing opportunities for athletes and coaches in Ann Arbor and the Midwest. In 2009, Kit founded\u00a0Skyline High School Crew<\/a>, a program that has established itself among the region\u2019s best, producing over 70 Midwest Championship Crews, 6 Team State Champions, and 10 Scholastic National Champions. The team has grown from 25 athletes to over 75 and has seen over 40 student-athletes compete at the next level in College. In 2023, Kit won the inaugural\u00a0Women\u2019s Coach of the Year for the Midwest Scholastic Region<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>

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In 2012, Kit established\u00a0Washtenaw Rowing Center\u00a0<\/a>(WRC), which now serves as a regional hub for middle school, high school, and u23\/Elite rowers. In 2017, WRC partnered with Ann Arbor Public Schools and won the highly sought-after\u00a0George Pocock Foundation \u201cErg Ed\u201d grant<\/a>, which officially incorporated rowing education into the AAPS district's 6th-12th grade PE curriculum.<\/span><\/p>

In the Spring of 2024,\u00a0Kit was elevated to the dual role of Executive Director<\/a>\u00a0and Head Coach for both organizations.<\/span><\/p>

Kit is\u00a0US Rowing Level 3 High Performance certified and was part of the coaching staff for the US u19 National Team sculling section for three years. He coached athletes at the U19 World Championships in Trakai, Lithuania, in 2013, and in 2012, he led the US squad to multiple golds at the 2012 CanAmMex Regatta in Mexico City. Kit served as the Site Director for the u23 National Team Development Squad in 2023 and 2024 in Ann Arbor.<\/span><\/p>

Kit completed four years as an assistant coach for the Varsity men\u2019s program at the University of Michigan, where his athletes won multiple\u00a0ACRA National Championships<\/a>\u00a0and a\u00a0Dad Vail title.<\/a><\/span><\/p>

Kit is currently the Vice-Chairman for the\u00a0Midwest Scholastic Rowing Association<\/a>\u00a0and Vice-President for the\u00a0Scholastic Rowing Association of America<\/a>\u00a0(US Scholastic National Championships), as well as serving on multiple\u00a0US Rowing\u00a0Committees.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/section>

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\nLindsay Davis-Brady
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\nAssociate Head Coach\n<\/div>
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Lindsay Davis-Brady has been involved in rowing since 2010, beginning her rowing career at Skyline High School in Ann Arbor, Michigan.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

In 2014, she continued her rowing career at the collegiate level at Eastern Michigan University while beginning her coaching career with her former high school program and the Washtenaw Rowing Center.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

She continues to grow the sport of rowing by developing the youngest rowers, primarily working with novices and middle school rowers. In the summers, she enjoys leading the high-performance junior women at WRC\u2019s Canadian Henley camp.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Summer\u00a02023, Lindsay was part of the\u00a0\u00a0u23 National Team Development Squad Staff, and in the Spring of 2024, Lindsay was named Midwest Scholastic Association Assistant Coach of the Year.\u00a0<\/p>\n

March\u00a02025, Lindsay was promoted to Director of Operations for Skyline Crew and Washtenaw Rowing Center. Lindsay is also a US Rowing Level 3 HP certified coach.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>

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Staff WRC aims to provide athletes with the highest quality opportunities to excel in rowing, an effort anchored by our talented and knowledgeable coaching staff. Our coaches have a wealth of rowing and coaching experience at the junior, collegiate, and elite international levels. Every coach brings to WRC a particular style, focus, and expertise, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_breakdance_hide_in_design_set":false,"_breakdance_tags":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-308","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wrc.catchdrive.dev\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wrc.catchdrive.dev\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wrc.catchdrive.dev\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wrc.catchdrive.dev\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wrc.catchdrive.dev\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=308"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/wrc.catchdrive.dev\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":708,"href":"https:\/\/wrc.catchdrive.dev\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/308\/revisions\/708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wrc.catchdrive.dev\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}