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!
