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Men's Coach and Program Director - Alex Berlin Alex Berlin is in his second year at the University of Colorado. In his first year, the team set a program first by having every member of the men’s team depart the WIRA league championships with a medal. Since returning to coach Colorado in 2006, Alex has worked hard to raise the competitive level of the program by growing the team and introducing better training methods. He has also worked with the alumni to update both the men’s and women’s equipment. In the past two years the school's fleet has almost doubled. Coach Berlin’s resume includes two years with the University of Michigan Men’s Team, Advanced Competitive Head Coach for Ann Arbor Rowing Club, and Summer ’07 Penn AC Intermediate Senior program coach. His crews at Penn AC swept the Canadian Henley Senior sweep events (8+, 4-, 2-) and won the Senior B 8+. The only non gold performance of the regatta for Penn AC crews was a 2nd place in the Champ 8+. Alex has coached under Gregg Hartsuff and John Riley, both of whom have coach for the US National Team. Alex began rowing at Harriton High School in Lower Merion, PA. As a member of the University of Colorado Rowing Team Berlin led the team to a number of program firsts including a Head of the Charles medal. He was the Varsity 8+ stroke for both his junior and senior year as well as a Team Captain. Contact Alex at Alexander.Berlin@colorado.edu |
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Women's Coach - Odette Mitchell-Servilio Odette has been at Colorado for four years, the first two as the Novice Coach, and the last two years as the Head Coach. Since starting here, the women's team has rebuilt itself posting the best results the program has seen in almost ten years. The spring season is looking promising with a strong Varsity 8+, all of which are returning from last year. The fall season brought vast improvements, and now the team is looking to build on that with a promising group of novice. Prior to coaching at Colorado, Odette coached Warwick Valley High School Crew, a coed team in Warwick, NY. In the first year of the team's program, Odette qualifed two boats for the US Rowing Youth Nationals and had several of the rowers go on to row in college. She also coached high school track in Park Ridge, NJ - her own alma mater, where several of her runners won both indoor and outdoor state titles. As a rower, Odette competed at Syracuse University during the program's most successful time. As a walk-on sophomore year, Odette was part of a team who won Big East Championships twice, 2 at-large NCAA bids in 2000 and 2001 and the school's first-ever team bid in 2002. While there, the women's team was consistently ranked in the top 15 and was ranked as high as #6. Odette was a Big East Academic All-Star, and given a full athletic scholarship by senior year. She received her Bachelor of Science from Syracuse, NY in 2002 and a Master of Arts in Teaching from the University of Denver in 2004.
During daylight hours, Odette is a World History and Geography teacher at Nederland High School in the mountains just west of Boulder. She is also an avid NY Giants fan and spends much of her free time (which is very little) watching Scrubs. Contact Odetter at omitchserv@yahoo.com |
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