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Ashleigh Genevich

Ashleigh Genevich

Ashleigh Genevich returns to her Alma Mater to assist the Women's Rowing Team as the lead Coxswain Coach.  

Prior to joining the Shorewomen, Genevich spent three years as the assistant coach for the Marist women's rowing team, coaching from 2013 - 2016.   From 2011 - 2013 Genevich worked for two years at the University of Miami as the women's assistant coach and recruiting coordinator focusing on recruitment of student athletes at an international level. Emphasis was also in developing accelerated training and skills development for promising walk on athletes. Several walk on athletes had successful impact in varsity boats making them selves a lineup staple

Before her stint at Miami,  spent three years as head coach of the men's novice rowing squads at her alma mater, Washington College. During her tenure, the Shoremen won the 2008 Mid-Atlantic Championships with the men's four-man novice team as well as in 2009 with the men's novice squad. Her squad also advanced to the semifinals in back-to-back years in 2008 and 2009 at the Dad Vail Regatta, the largest collegiate regatta in the United States, on the Schuylkill River in Philadelphia.

During her collegiate career, Genevich called the shots as coxswain for the men's rowing team at Washington College in Chestertown, Md., earning All-Mid Atlantic Regional accolades. By her junior year she had moved on to coxswain for the men's varsity rowing squad where she accomplished some impressive feats by guiding the varsity four-man squad to a second-place finish at the 2007 Mid-Atlantic Division III Regional Championships. The following year Genevich's squad made the adjustments to take first at the 2008 Mid-Atlantic Division III Championships. As a senior, Genevich's boat finished fourth at the Dad Vail Regatta.

She graduated from Washington College with a Master's degree in history and is certified in Secondary Education.

Genevich has served as a counselor and coach at multiple rowing camps to becoming officially certified through U.S. Rowing and has attended a camp for the U.S. National Team.