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Jeremy Michalitsianos (born October 25, 1965) is the current head coach of the Montclair High School crew team.

Coaching Career

Michalitsianos began coaching at Montclair High School in Montclair, New Jersey in 2008. During the fall of that year, he was appointed head coach. He has stated that he prepares his boats to compete at the Stotesbury Cup Regatta, the largest and one of the most prestigious high school regattas in the world. Throughout the season, Michalitsianos sends his crews to race in the Manny Flick races, which are a series of five smaller regattas over a period of five weeks, to prepare for the larger medal events. The next event Michalitsianos and the Montclair High crew team attend is the Garden State Scholastic Championship of New Jersey. From there, the team goes to the Philadelphia Cities Regatta and the freshman only Dr. Robert White Regatta. After that, they compete over a period of two days at the Stotesbury Regatta. For most of the team, this regatta marks the end of the spring season. However, for boats that qualify at the Garden State Scholastic Championship or the Philadelphia Cities Regatta, the two day SRAA National Regatta is the final race.

Coaching Honors

Over Michalitsianos's three year coaching career, he has attained thirteen medals from the Stotesbury Regatta. In 2009, the team brought home two gold medals for the Womens' Freshmen Eight and the Womens' Lightweight Four races, a silver for the Mens' Freshman Quad race, and a bronze for the Womens' Junior Double race (four in all). In 2010, he won one gold medal for the Men's Freshman Quad, two silvers for the Womens' Junior Eight and the Womens' Senior Double, and a bronze for the Mens' Junior Four (four in all) . Most recently, in 2011, he won two gold medals for the Womens' Junior Eight and Mens' Junior Quad, two silvers for the Womens' Lightweight Four and the Mens' Junior Four, and a bronze for the Womens' Junior Double (five in all) . Almost all races (except for the Garden State Scholastic Championship and the SRAA National Regatta) take place on the Schuykill River in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Training

The year is split up into three seasons; Fall, Winter, and Spring. Each season has a different style of workout and trains for different events. The fall season lasts from September to October, the winter lasts from November to February, and the spring lasts from March to May.

Fall Season

During the Fall Season, the team practices three days a week on the Passaic River. The biggest event for the fall season is the Head of the Passaic Regatta, a three mile long course on the river they practice on. Some more advanced crews may also appear at other races, such as the Head of the Charles Regatta on the Charles River in Massachusetts and the Frostbite Regatta on the Schuykill River.

Winter Season

After the fall season, the team begins training for the spring season in November. Winter season lasts from November until boat lineups are decided in late February by the coaches. Practice is four days a week (Monday through Thursday), and each day switches from a cardio-and-weights workout to a workout on an ergometer. Each workout is two hours long, and sessions are split up into three groups per day (usually by gender or age). Over the season, the coaches record ergometer scores for the main test, a 2 kilometer race. The team attends two erg races over the Winter; Saint Anthony High School's Strong Island Sprints, and the C.R.A.S.H.-Bs race. Currently, the team's boys' and girls' records stand at 6:26 and 7:26 by Nate Goodman and Greta Healy, respectively. Both records were set on May 31, 2011.

Spring Season

Boats are mostly organized before spring season starts in late February/early March. Boats are split up among coaches to set their own schedule, but practices mainly last roughly two to two and a half hours long and, for the most part, take place on every day of the week but Friday. The spring season is the biggest season of the year.

Coaches

Although Michalitsianos is the head coach, he is not the only one. In 2011, he had six other coaches to help him coach. The seven coaches were split into four groups, and each group practiced with a specific set of boats. The coaches were set as follows:

Jeremy Michalitsianos

• Boys Varsity Four
• Girls Lightweight Four
• Boys Junior Varsity Four
• Girls Junior Varsity Four

Lorna Rundle and Reuben Man

• Girls Lightweight Eight
• Girls Junior Varsity Eight
• Girls Freshman Eight

Boris Roque Alvarez and Steve McNeilly

• Girls Varsity Double A
• Girls Varsity Double B
• Boys Junior Varsity Quad A
• Boys Junior Varsity Quad B
• Boys Junior Varsity Double
• Boys Freshman Quad

Amanda Klimek and Julian Canha

• Girls Junior Varsity Double
• Boys Freshman Eight (Formerly Boys Freshman Quad B and Boys Freshman Four)
• Girls Freshman Four
• Boys Freshman Double

Family Life

Jeremy Michalitsianos married current co-coach Lorna Rundle on September 18, 1999. Together, they have three children: Joseph, born January 4, 1996 (15 years old), Edward (Ned), born October 30, 1997 (13 years old), and George, born May 23, 2010 (1 year old). In the 2011 season, Joseph rowed for the Montclair High School crew team, as bow of the Boys Freshman Quad.

Michalitsianos's father, Bob, founded Lea Rowing Club and went on to coach for Westminster School of Cambridge, as well as the Great Britain National and Olympic teams.

Rowing Honors

Before becoming a coach, Michalitsianos was a rower himself. At the age of 12, he was at Lea Rowing Club. After that, he joined the Great Britain Junior National team in an eight in 1983. In 1984, he won the bronze medal in the Great Britain U23 National Team in a lightweight four. For the next four years (1987, 1988, 1989, and 1990), he rowed for the Great Britain National Team . In 1990, he also won the Goodwill Games in Seattle for Great Britain in a coxless pair. Five years later, in 1995, he won the Wyfold Cup at the Henley Royal Regatta in a coxless four .

Recreational Activites

Coach Jeremy Michalitsianos also enjoys soccer and throwing megaphones.

External links

• Montclair Crew webpage