2008-2009 Season

The following roster is for varsity athletes only. Novice roster to be posted shortly.
Coach profiles are listed below.

Current Roster

Women
Athletes	Hometown	High School
Sheena Chaudhary(coxswain)	Bethesda, MD	Walter Johnson
Liahna Gonda-King (coxswain)	Mukilteo, WA	Kamiak
Molly Gates(coxswain)	Great Mills, MD	Great Mills
Catherine Holland (coxswain)	Rockville, MD	Richard Montgomery
Blair Saffren (coxswain)	Doylestown, PA	Central Bucks HS East
Carla Bacon	Marlborough, CT	RHAM
Mary Catherine Burgess	Bozeman, MT	Bozeman
Sara DeSavage	Bowie, MD	Bowie
Monika Disque	Annapolis, MD	Annapolis
Emily Hagan	Bethesda, MD	Walter Johnson
Jessica Hartman	Hughesville, MD	St. Mary's Ryken
Heather Johnson	Hingham, MA	Hingham
Elizabeth Kohlway	Westminster, MD	South Carroll
Katherine Krieger	Silver Spring, MD	Albert Einstein
Cynthia Lawson	Brookeville, MD	Sherwood
Emma Prasher	HS was in Gaithersburg, MD	Gaithersburg
Devin Sherwood	Towson, MD	Towson
Melina Vamvas	Delmar, NY	Bethlehem Central

Men
Athletes	Hometown	High School
Thomas Bennett	Sykesville, MD	Century HS
Dwight Chew	Libertytown, MD	Linganore HS
Alex Flick	Easton, PA	Easton Area HS
Andrew Giovanni Foster	Rockville, MD	Rockville HS
Charles Lange	Mount Laurel, NJ	Lenape HS
Christopher Lewis	Woodbine, MD	Century HS
Frederick Meatyard IV
Brian Tennyson	Ellicott City, MD	hs
Neal Stuckenschneider	Olney, MD	Covenant Life HS

When we were learning the craft of rowing, we belonged to Buzz. He was the artist molding us to his form. In Florida, I once rode in the launch for part of one practice while Buzz was choosing the first boat. I sat in the bow while he drove the launch, calculated stroke cadences, switched oarsmen between the two eights, and wrote notes about each of us: all the while laughing and cursing to himself. We were his creation. On the water we came to see ourselves thorugh his eyes, molded as we were in his image. Once we had achieved the basic form, however, we were no longer just reflections of his art. Individuals reemerged to form the character of the boat.^{1Stephen Kiesling, The Shell Game: Reflections on Rowing and the Pursuit of Excellence Oregon: Nordic Knight Press, 1982, 133.}

Coaching Staff

From its inception the team was almost exclusively coached by fellow St. Mary's students until recently when the team added two SMC crew alumni to their coaching staff. Paul and Kristin Conlin are the head coaches of the team and work in conjunction with a student coach to train the team. All coaches work under the directions of the Executive Board and collaborate to satisfy the club mission statement. For information on officers and team constitution, go to the "Forms" page.

Name	Hometown	Profile
Paul Conlin	Fairfield, CT	Paul Conlin, flexing at left with rowing partner Tobias Bates (class '06), graduated from St. Mary's College in 2000. Paul began rowing his freshman year and assumed a volunteer coaching postion with the men's team post graduation. After taking a couple years off from coaching Paul was asked to return in the fall of 2006. An active competitor, Paul rows and races his single shell (1x), and races with various doubles partners (2x).
Kristin Conlin	Delmar, NY	Three years of high school sweep rowing with the Albany Rowing Club and three years with the SMC crew team prepared Kristin for coaching the mens' novice team in 2003 through 2005. After graduating in 2005, Kristin trained and rowed with Capital Rowing Club in Washington, DC in the competitive sculling program and currently trains in her single (1x) throughout the spring, summer, and fall seasons. Kristin returned to the team as a coach in the fall of 2007.