Coaches
Head Coach - Kirk Lang
Coach Lang began rowing at Mt. Lebanon Senior High School in Pittsburgh, PA as a heavy-weight varsity rower and men’s team captain. Following high school he rowed at Duquesne University for 4 years on the Varsity team. His freshman year, he rowed bow in the Men’s Pair 2- that earned the first Dad Vail Regatta (largest intercollegiate regatta in the U.S.) medal for Duquesne. He also rowed while studying aboard at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland where he attended regatta’s throughout the United Kingdom.
During graduate school, Coach Lang first served as a coach for several area Pittsburgh High schools. His collegiate coaching experience includes 3 years at Duquesne University; 2 years as a Novice/JV coach and 1 year as the Men’s Head coach. He is a former member of Three Rivers Rowing Association (TRRA) and currently holds a Level 1 USRowing certification. Coach Lang has a B.S. in Biology/Chemistry and a M.S. in Biotechnology.
SRL Coaches
SRL Head Coach - Wayne Reichard
Coach Reichard rowed for four years at St. Ignatius High School - Silver at the 2006 SRA National Championship Regatta in the Lightweight 8. Following high school, he rowed for three years on a scholarship at Jacksonville University - Silver at the 2009 Dad Vail Regatta in the 2nd Varsity 8 (largest collegiate regatta in the United States). He is currently enrolled at Jacksonville University (Jacksonville, FL) majoring in Aviation Management and Flight Operations.
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Coach - Miriam Singer
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Coach – Connor Walters
Coach Walters began rowing in Fall 2005 for St. Ignatius HS as a freshman. Member of 4 consecutive Midwest Scholastic Rowing Championship teams, contributing gold medals in the Varsity Lightweight 8+ in 2007 and 2009; competed at Scholastic Nationals from 2007-2009, and at the Stotesbury Cup in 2009, all in the Lightweight 8+. Freshman year at Marietta College (2010), sat 3-seat in the silver medalist Junior Varsity 8+ at the Dad Vail Regatta. Sophomore year at Marietta College (2011), rowed 3-seat in the Varsity Lightweight 8+ which won the SIRA Championship and raced at the IRA National Championship. Began coaching in May 2010 for SRL and is currently enrolled at Marietta College.
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Coach – Daren Frankel
darencf@gmail.com
Coach Frankel started rowing for Cleveland Scholastic in the fall of 2008. He has since continued rowing for the University of Pennsylvania Heavyweight Crew Team under head coach Greg Myhr. This will be his second year coaching with SRL. He is currently enrolled at the University of Pennsylvania
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Coach – Cara Murhpy
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Coach – Hattie Gemerchak
Coach Gemerchak rowed for Shaker Heights for four years in high school. In that time, she competed at Head of the Charles, placed and medaled for three years atMidwest Scholastic Championship and twice medaled the Scholastic National Championships. Currently, Hattie attends and rows for Mount Holyoke College, an all women’s college in Western Massachusetts.
Rec. Coaches
Coach – Mark Silverstein
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Coach – Patty W.
Club Coaches
Coach – Erik A. Murdell
Coach Murdell started rowing in 2004 with WRRA in the Summer Rowing League. After a few years, he joined the Recreational program for a season before advancing to the Masters program. He has been coaching with WRRA since 2007, Saint Ignatius High School since 2009 and has assisted with several other CRF clubs. If you attended one of our Learn To Rows you’ll be sure to meet Erik since he manages that program. In addition, he served as WRRA’s president in 2010.
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Coach – Tim Marcovy
Coach Marcovy has coached WRRA sculling and sweep rowing since 1995. He also coached Case Crew from 1993 till 1996 and from 2002 until 2008 and was one of the five founders of theWestern Reserve Rowing Association. He was an assistant coach at St. Ignatius for three years. . He has competed as a rower and a sculler at Columbia University 1970 – 1972, and for the WRRA since 1989 in over 180 regattas, including 8 Masters’ Nationals Regattas and 13 Head of the Charles regattas. His daughter is a former high school rower and former rowing coach. His son, an IRA medal-winning oarsman for Columbia University and 2008 Boat Race winner for Oxford University, as well as an adult and junior rowing coach for WRRA and many other CRF programs.
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Coach – Russ Eckles
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Coach – Bob Gannon
Coach Gannon began rowing with SRL the mid 1990′s. He learned to scull soon after, competing for several years in doubles. In addition he has competed in a variety of sweep boats in several dozen regettas over the years including the Head of the Charles several times. He mainly sculls but sweeps as opportunities arise. He has even coxed a number of times and at 6’1″ it is a good laugh watching him get in and even a bigger laugh getting out. Is an assistant coach with CWRU. Is also coach SRL and Cleveland Collegiate. Is am a member of the Sculliong Committee, a volunteer with the Sculling Buddy program, and is working on a collegiate sculling in conjunction with the Cleveland Collegiate group.
