Lowell High School crew is a team of over 100 inner-city athletes who have worked hard to build a strong, competitive program. The team’s equipment includes 5 coaching launches, a boat trailer, 10 eights, 2 fours, a pair/double, 12 sets of oars, 11 cox boxes and 7 ergs.
Coaches
Jessica Murray
Head Coach/Boys Varsity Coach
This is Coach Murray’s first season as head coach and second year with the varsity boys. She is an alumni of Lowell High, 2004, where she participated on the swim, lacrosse, and rowing teams. Her senior year she was recruited to row for Division I San Diego State. She graduated from San Diego State University with a B.S. in Kinesiology emphasizing Fitness, Nutrition, and Health. In addition to rowing, she is a fitness coach in Westford.
Robby Walters
Assistant Head Coach/Girls Varsity Coach
Coach Walters is entering his sixth year with the team, and his first season with a varsity squad. He is a 2005 graduate of Lowell High School, and an alumni of the crew team. Robby graduated from UMass/Lowell in 2010 with a BA in Business Management and Finance where he also rowed. He also coaches private lessons for the Merrimac River Rowing Association.
Novice Girls Coach
Katie is a new addition to the team. She has rowed for two years and coxed for an additional two years in high school on the Worcester Public High School Crew Team. After graduation, she began courses at the University of Massachusetts at Lowell as a student in the Mechanical Engineering Department. Katie has coxed for the University for two years while coaching for the Merrimack River Rowing Association during the summers. Now she has joined the program as our Novice Girls coach.
Novice Boys Coach
Assistant Coach
Regatta Coordinator
A Lowell native, Coach Bauer is in her eighth year at LHS. She resigned as Head Coach in 2009 to pursue her doctorate degree as well as to help take care of her new daughter, Addison. This year she is taking on only the role as the regatta coordinator for the races Lowell High School hosts in the spring season. After this past spring’s huge success, Jen will continue to coordinate the popular Lowell Invitational, Novice Challenge, MPSRA State Championships, the MVC Championships, and the US Rowing North East Regionals (pending approval). Two years ago, her lightweight four was the fastest public school boat in the country, and placed 5th at USRowing Youth Nationals.
Prior to coaching at LHS, Campbell was a Head Coach at Brandeis University (2001-2003), and also the Head Coach of the Timilty Middle School program (1999-2003), part of G-ROW Boston – an organization geared toward bringing rowing to inner-city girls. Bauer’s coaching career began in 1998 when she took on the position of girls’ novice coach at Brandeis.
Bauer began rowing during her junior year of high school at Phillips Academy, Andover. After making the varsity team her first season she was hooked on rowing. She went on to row for Ithaca College where she had a very successful four year career. After graduation, she coxed and rowed for Riverside Boat Club.
In addition to coaching, Bauer also teaches video production and digital photography.
