Mark Rothstein, Camp Director
Head Coach (13th year), Michigan Women's Rowing
• Collegiate Rowing Coaches Association National Coach of the Year, 2001
• Big Ten Coach of the Year, 2000, 2001, 2004
• Joy of Sculling Coaches Award, 2001

Mark Rothstein coached U.S. Rowing's Coxless Four to a Bronze Medal in the 1999 Nations Cup, and guest coached at the U.S. Olympic Training Center in 2006 and 2007. At the University of Michigan, Rothstein has coached 4 U.S. Olympians, 2 Canadian Olympians, 4 U.S. World Champions, 14 Collegiate Rowing Coaches Association (CRCA) All-America Rowers, 4 Big Ten Rowers of the Year, and more than 17 athletes who also rowed for the U.S. or Canadian National teams. His University of Michigan Rowing Teams have been invited to the NCAA Championships ten times, and Michigan Women's Rowing won the Big Ten Championships in 2000, 2001, 2003, and 2004. Michigan Women's Rowing student-athletes coached by Rothstein also have won 138 Academic All-Big Ten Conference Awards.

Gregg Hartsuff
Head Coach (16th year), Michigan Men's Rowing
• Joy of Sculling Coaches Award, 2003

Gregg Hartsuff coached scullers for the U.S. National Team in 2003, and he has coached 7 Michigan athletes who have gone on to compete for their country's national team, including one World Champion and U.S. Olympian. Hartsuff's Michigan crews have won 2 IRA National Championship medals and 45 Dad Vail and ECAC Championship medals, 22 of which were gold. Under Hartsuff, Michigan Men's Rowing won and holds the record for the most and also most continuous team event victories at the ECAC, 1999-2005. Hartsuff still competes himself, most recently winning a gold medal at the 2006 Masters Worlds.

Kate Strum
Assistant Coach , Michigan Women's Rowing

Kate Strum joined the Michigan Rowing staff in 2008. Prior to coaching at Michigan, Strum was an assistant coach at Bucknell University, where the team won several league titles. Strum also coached at the University of California, Davis, where she primarily worked with the novice squad. In 2002, when Strum began her coaching career, she taught and coached rowing to students at the American School for the Deaf and Special Olympic athletes through the Community Rowing Program at Yale University. Strum rowed and also coxed for Bates College as an undergraduate, and she was team captain while a student-athlete.

Heather Mandoli
Assistant Coach , Michigan Women's Rowing; Former Rower and Olympian (2008) for the Canadian National Team

Heather Mandoli returned to Michigan Rowing in September 2008 after an exciting trip to Beijing, where she rowed in the Canadian National Team's Eight for the 2008 Olympics. As a collegiate rower at Michigan, Mandoli was selected as an All-American and the Big Ten Rower of the Year. She also was named to the All-Region and Big Ten First Teams that year, and received another half-dozen awards during her collegiate rowing career.

Charley Sullivan
Assistant Coach, Michigan Men's Rowing

Details coming soon!

Veronika Platzer
Head Coach, University of Massachusetts - Lowell; Assistant Coach, U.S. Junior National Team; Former Assistant Coach, Michigan Women's Rowing

Veronika Platzer is the head coach of the rowing program at the University of Massachusetts - Lowell and also an assistant coach for the United States Junior National Team. In the summer of 2006 Platzer coached the U.S. Junior National Team's four to a seventh-place finish at the Junior World Championships in Amsterdam. Platzer also rowed for the United States, competing in World Cup races (1993-1997) as well as the World Championships in 1993. A three-time NCAA Division III and Division I discus champion, Platzer was inducted into the Grinnell College Hall of Fame for her track and field success and was voted NCAA Division III Female Track and Field Athlete of the Decade (1980-1990). Before coming to Michigan, Platzer coached Women's Rowing at the University of Virginia, leading their Varsity Four to an NCAA championship in 2004 and guiding novice crews to ACC and South Region championships in 2005 and 2006. Platzer also has coached rowing at Mercyhurst and the University of Wisconsin.

Karen Smyte
Former Assistant Coach, Michigan Women's Rowing; Former Rower, Canadian National Team

Details coming soon!

Alisse Portnoy
Michigan Women's Rowing Camp Administrator

Alisse Portnoy is a professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at the University of Michigan. Although her sister rowed as a novice for the University of Michigan in 1988-1989, Alisse only recently learned to row from her husband, Coach Mark Rothstein. She handles the administrative details of Michigan Rowing Camp, and welcomes your questions and feedback at <rowing.camp@umich.edu>.

Camp Trainer

Michigan Rowing Summer Camp's Athletic Trainer will be named this spring. Our trainers typically work several Michigan Sports Camps throughout the summer. At least one of our trainers will live in the dormitory with our residential campers and that trainer is with the camp 24 hours each day, for the duration of camp.

Camp Counselors
Michigan Rowers are hired as camp counselors each summer. These Wolverines accompany campers to all activities, including meals.

Additional Coaches
Additional coaches may be named this spring. Coaches are subject to change.