Staff
The following coaches and staff members are regulars at our Camps for Women.

Holly Metcalf
Holly Metcalf, Founder of Row As One, is the camp’s head coach. Holly puts her 20+ years of experience coaching to work planning drills and work outs to help individuals increase their technical ability. Her coaching style revolves around individuals – recognizing where the rower is in terms of her rowing stroke and how best for that individual to improve – rather than having a preset idea of the perfect stroke. This creates the opportunity for each individual to make significant progress in their own stroke.


Abby Peck
Abby has been a regular at our camps since the beginning. Abby provides both on the water coaching, usually concentrating on sweep boats, and weight training. As a certified personal trainer, Abby has an excellent knowledge of the best strength training exercises for the masters woman athlete.


Jeanne Friedman
Jeanne has been the head coach of Mount Holyoke Crew since 1991, capturing four Seven Sisters Championships, one NEWMAC Championship, and numerous medals at ECAC and New England regional championships. She was a founding member of Boston University's crew team, where she won Gold twice at the United States National Championships. Jeanne is also a Level III Certified United States Rowing Coach and has an MS in exercise physiology from the University of Washington.


Tessa Spillane
Tessa Spillane is the Head Coach for Lewis and Clark College in Portland, OR. Prior to her move west, she was the novice crew coach and varsity assistant coach at Mt. Holyoke College. She has also directed and coached several community based rowing programs serving masters rowers and at risk youth. Tessa holds a bachelor's degree from Mount Holyoke and a master's degree in Exercise and Sport Studies from Smith College in Northampton, MA. During her tenure as a student-athlete at Mount Holyoke, she was named an all-conference athlete and served as team captain. Tessa has been coaching at the Row As One camps for over five years.


Stacey Rippetoe
Stacey started rowing in 1993 at UNH after multiple (5) knee surgeries. (“What a cool sport that allowed me to be an athlete again!”) She transferred to Rutgers for whom she competed in the first NCAA women's rowing championships 1997, placing 4th. There she earned B.S. in Biological Sciences. She began coaching at Navesink River Rowing, Fair Haven, NJ in 1995, coaching masters rowers and serving as the head coach. She then became the novice coach at the University of Rhode Island, earning the students' choice award in 1999. This award goes to female faculty and staff for inspiring and encouraging students and providing effective leadership towards achievement. Now, Stacey is the novice coach at Michigan State University. Stacey began volunteering at the Row As One camps in 1999 and started the first WeCanRow expansion team in 2002. Stacey is completing her MS in Kinesiology with an emphasis in sport psychology. Stacey also has two fabulous dogs, Rows and Jem who are often seen with her in the launch.


Jenny Simon
Simon is the Novice Women's Crew Coach at Lewis and Clark College in Portland, OR. She also serves as the NCAA Intern for the Lewis & Clark athletic department, working in an administrative role. Prior to Lewis and Clark, Jenny was a varsity rower at Mt. Holyoke College where she graduated with a degree in Math. During her summers in college, Jenny worked as an assistant for Pioneer Head Coach Tessa Spillane in several different community programs. These programs included Mount Holyoke Community Rowing and Rowing Strong, Rowing Together - a program designed to teach teenage mothers to row. Jenny has been working with the Row As One camps for five years as volunteer and now as camp manager.


Please note that the coaching staff may change from year to year.