Women's Rowing
- Title:
- Assistant Coach
- Email:
- nd2476@columbia.edu
- Phone:
- 212-854-4335
Nick Dawe enters his second year at the Columbia Women’s Rowing program for the 2015-2016 season.
In Dawe’s first season with the Lions, he assisted the varsity squad primarily working with the varsity 4+ and second varsity 4+ throughout the spring season. At the 2015 EAWRC Sprints, both fours finished well ahead of their seeding with the varsity 4+ earning a silver medal.
Dawe knows the New York City waterways well with over five years of coaching in the city as the former assistant men’s and women’s coach of Fordham University as well as current head men’s summer coach at the New York Athletic Club.
While at Fordham, Dawe served as the recruiting coordinator, coached the women’s lightweight 4+ to a bronze medal at the 2013 IRA Championship, and helped the Rams to record-breaking team performances at the 2012 and 2014 Dad Vail Championship. In 2012, seven crews advanced to the Saturday semi- final and grand finals racing including a gold in the women’s freshmen four and a bronze in the women’s lightweight four. In Dawe’s final year there, the JV women’s eight made history with its first grand final appearance at the Dad Vail.
During the two summers since 2014, Dawe has led the New York Athletic Club men to their best performances in over a decade with 30 combined medals (nine gold, fifteen silver, and six bronze) at the 2014 & 2015 USRowing Club National Championships. Also, in 2015 the New York AC earned its first team national title since 2006 with the Sulger-Barnes Trophy for best overall men’s team at theClub National Championships. At the 2014 Royal Canadian Henley the New York AC men won the Senior Men’s 8, the Senior Men’s 4x, along with the men’s and women’s squads combined earning the Team Efficiency Trophy. Following up on the 2014 Canadian Henley performance, in 2015 the men’s team won the Senior 8 for the second year running as well as winning the U23 eight.
As for Dawe’s own rowing career, his high school years included four undefeated regular seasons and a National Title in the varsity eight with the Cincinnati Junior Rowing Club. Then he went on to be a 2010 graduate of Dartmouth where he was a four-year member of the lightweight rowing team. Dawe spent three years on the varsity that competed in the IRA National Championship Lightweight 8 Grand Final in 2008 and 2010. He earned the Timothy Ryerson freshman award and Class of 1990 underclassman of the year award along with serving as Commodore his senior year. Dawe then went on to compete at the international level as a member of the 2012 U.S. Senior Lightweight National Team that competed at the Senior World Championships in Plovidiv, Bulgaria sitting four seat of the lightweight eight.
