Marina Traub Joins Rowing Staff
9/13/2006 12:00:00 AM | Rowing
Marina Traub has joined the University of Alabama rowing coaching staff as an assistant coach according to head coach
Larry Davis.
"Marina is extremely knowledgeable about the sport of rowing and brings a tremendous amount of experience on the collegiate level to this program, which is vital as we start our first year of varsity competition," Davis said.
Traub comes to Alabama after a two-year stint as head coach at Trinity College where she led her squads to a pair of top-3 finishes at the NCAA Division III Championships. Her Trinity varsity also won the Collegiate Eight at the 2005 Head of the Charles. For her efforts, she was named the 2005 CRCA DIII Coach of the Year.
"The University of Alabama's commitment to the student-athlete experience is exactly what I look for in a program and I am delighted to be a part of this program as it comes to life," Traub said. "Coach Larry Davis and the Crimson Tide athletics department are a great fit for me, and the potential for rowing here is outstanding."
Prior to Trinity she was at the University of Wisconsin, where she coached the novice squad before serving as Interim Associate Head Coach in her last season with the Badgers. During her two seasons at the Wisconsin novice coach, her squads took won three Big Ten Championships.
She started her collegiate coaching career at the University of California-Berkeley were she was an assistant coach with the varsity. When she was at Cal, the squad took third at the 2002 NCAA Championships.
A 2000 University of Virginia graduate with a degree American Politics, she was a four-year letter winner and helped the Cavaliers to four straight NCAA Championship appearances.
