Staff

WRC aims to provide athletes with the highest quality opportunities to excel in rowing, an effort anchored by our talented and knowledgeable coaching staff.

Our coaches have a wealth of rowing and coaching experience at the junior, collegiate, and elite international levels. Every coach brings to WRC a particular style, focus, and expertise, and as a group the staff strives to find effective and engaging ways to help rowers achieve their full potential.

Kit Bennett
Director

Kit hails from London, England, where he began coaching in 2000. He served as Head Coach at Hatfield College, part of Durham University (UK), and since coming stateside he has been passionate about expanding rowing opportunities for athletes and coaches in Ann Arbor and the Midwest. In 2009 Kit founded the Skyline High School Crew , a program which in its first five years established itself among the region’s best, producing Midwest Regionals medal-winning crews as well as  US Scholastic and Canadian National Champions. The team has grown from 25 athletes to over 80. He is now working to expand rowing opportunities for middle school, high school students and U23’s/Elite rowers through WRC.

Kit is  US Rowing Level 3 High Performance certified and was part of the coaching staff for the US Junior National Team sculling section for three years. He coached athletes at the Junior World Championships in Trakai Lithuania in 2013, and in 2012 he led the US squad to multiple golds at the 2012 CanAmMex Regatta in Mexico City. With the birth of his son Finn (and now Henry), he took time away from National Team to spend more time with his family.

Kit completed four years as an assistant for the Varsity men’s program at the University of Michigan, where his athletes won multiple ACRA National Championships, as well as a Dad Vail title.

His work in 2017 with the Ann Arbor Public School system won the highly sought after George Pocock Foundation “Erg Ed” grant, which brought rowing education officially into the AAPS district 6th-12th grade PE curriculum.

Kit has a wealth of experience creating training plans and working one-on-one with athletes. Please contact him directly at kit.d.bennett@gmail.com for more information.

Lindsay Davis-Brady
Associate Head Coach

Lindsay Davis-Brady a four year varsity rower (and three year captain) at Skyline HS, won Skyline’s first ever National Title, in the Junior Women’s double in 2013. Lindsay spent two years on the Eastern Michigan University Varsity team, but sadly had to leave due to a persistent injury.

Lindsay started coaching at  Skyline HS in 2014 and has demonstrated a great technical eye in helping progress Skyline athletes to the next level. She has been an exceptional head novice coach for the Skyline program, guiding the novices to multiple gold, silver and bronze medal finishes at the Midwest Championships. In 2015, her Freshmen Women’s  Quad won US Scholastic Nationals. She is a very enthusiastic member of the WRC coaching staff, who has assisted in all levels of programming.