Malcolm Doldron, a highly experienced collegiate, scholastic and club rowing coach, was named assistant women’s rowing coach at Columbia in August 2007. He has helped coach the freshman team at Columbia and assists with every aspect of the women’s rowing program.
Doldron came to Columbia from Princeton University, where he had been a volunteer assistant coach for the Princeton open women’s rowing team for the past two seasons. His crews finished second and third at the 2006 and 2007 EAWRC Sprints, both going on to compete at the NCAA Championships. During the past year, he served as Junior “A” sweep coach and coxswain coach at the United States Junior Women’s National Team Development Camp in Connecticut. Five of his boats earned gold medals in the U.S. Rowing Club National Championships.
“I first met Malcolm through his coaching at Princeton,” Melanie Onufrieff, Columbia’s head women’s rowing coach, said. “He’s a high energy guy with a really positive attitude.
“He’s coached a number of teams in different places, and has become very knowledgeable about rowing. He also has developed many relationships throughout the rowing world that will help our program a lot.”
Although he was born in Brooklyn, Doldron grew up in the Washington, D.C., area. He began rowing there, when he attended West Potomac High in Alexandria, and for the Thompson Boat Center.
He spent seven years, from 1999 to 2005, as head coach of rowing at West Potomac, leading men’s fours to gold at the Scholastic Nationals and silver at the Stotesbury Cup, and both men’s and women’s fours to gold and silver medals at the Virginia State Championships.
In five years as Junior Women’s head coach at the Thompson Boat Center, his Junior and Youth eights and fours earned many medals, including a gold medal in the U.S. Rowing National Championships and a silver medal at Canadian Henley. In 2005, the Thompson Center earned the Marion D. Ventura Women’s Points Trophy at the US Rowing National Championships. Doldron also coached at Water Street Rowing and the Washington Area Rowing Club.
The Alexandria resident served as coxswain of the varsity eight at West Potomac, earning silver in the Northern Virginia Championships, and a bronze medal as coxswain of the Junior Men’s Four+ at the 1995 nationals, representing the Thompson Center. He continued his rowing career at Marietta College, where he was the cox for the Pioneers’ varsity eight that earned bronze medals at the 1998 SIRA’s and Dad Vail Regatta. He graduated from Marietta in 1999 with a B.A. in psychology, and has done graduate work at George Mason.
Following graduation, Doldron became a special education teacher at Fairfax High in Fairfax, Va. He lives on Morningside Heights, near the Columbia campus
