Coaches

Coach Ogden began rowing in 1985 in Cazenovia, a small suburb of Syracuse.  Coming to the SUNY Geneseo team with 8 years of rowing experience he rowed in varsity boats his freshman year.  He was elected captain twice, which in those days meant unofficial coach, as there was no funding for an actual coach.  After heading to the University of Maine to study climate change and then to New Hampshire to work in adolescent psychology, he and his wife returned to Rochester and he started coaching for Brighton Rowing Club. He went on to the University of Rochester for a degree in education and began teaching 8th grade science in Brighton at TCMS.  He left BRC full time in 2005 because of the constraints of the new job as well as the two young children at home. He returned to BRC in 2021 and is happy to be back on the water!

Coach DJ is Brighton alum who learned to row with BRC. He then rowed at the University of Pittsburgh and graduated with a BA in Economics. He spent 3 years as the Varsity coach for North Allegheny High School. For the past 5 years he worked at Three Rivers Rowing during the day as an Administrative Assistant and most recently Campus Manager. He was also the Varsity Boys and competitive summer camp coach there. He has worked on several USRowing projects and is a member of the ADM committee, which works on aligning our sport with long-term athlete development (LTAD) principles. We are excited that he has returned to BRC!

In his spare time he likes to bike, read and tinker on projects. He is really excited to be back on the Genesee and am looking forward to working with the entire BRC community.

Born and raised in Pittsburgh, Carol began her rowing career as a first-year student with Fox Chapel High School's Crew Club.  With the help and support of her coaches, Carol was recruited to row for Bucknell University where she was a four-year varsity 8+ athlete and four-time Patriot League Champion.   After graduating, Carol spent two summers coaching junior women at Penn AC Rowing Club in Philadelphia and three years as an assistant coach at Duquesne University where she obtained a master’s degree in Social and Public Policy. In her third year coaching at Duquesne, Carol joined AmeriCorps and spent a year serving with the Homewood Children's Village in Pittsburgh Faison K-5 before relocating to the Louisiana Delta.  She spent two years teaching elementary school with Teach for America in St. Joseph, Louisiana, before returning to Pittsburgh and the world of coaching.  Carol served as the assistant coach at Robert Morris University for four years and as the head coach for two while working as the head coach of one of Three Rivers Rowing Association's masters programs.  She's enjoyed working with youth and adult programming at Three Rivers and is currently a member of their board of directors.  During her tenure in Pittsburgh she completed her doctoral degree with a research focus on the experiences of Black women rowing at predominantly white institutions.  Carol is currently a postdoctoral fellow and adjunct faculty instructor in Duquesne University's School of Education, adjunct faculty in John Carroll University's Sports Leadership graduate program, a college readiness coordinator at EnCompass: Resources for Learning, and a volunteer coach at the University of Rochester.  She's USRowing Level 3 certified.

Bio coming soon!