Timothy Noakes is Professor in the Discovery Health Chair of Exercise and Sports Science at the University of Cape Town. He is also Director of the UCT/MRC Research Unit for Exercise Science and Sports Medicine and co-founder with Morné du Plessis of the Sports Science Institute of South Africa (SSISA).
The Discovery Health partnership with these institutions has allowed the University of Cape Town to take its place at the forefront of exercise and sports science research world-wide. Their work advances the science behind health through a variety of programs aimed at professional athletes and the wider community.
Whilst a student at UCT, he rowed for the South African Universities on two consecutive seasons and was awarded University full Blue colors. He began long distance running in 1972 and, at the time of his last marathon in 1990, had run more than 70 marathon and ultra-marathon races including seven Comrades Marathons (best time 6 hours 49 minutes) and 15 Two Oceans Marathons (best time 3 hours 59 minutes). Thereafter he was active in cycling and triathlon events and completed the Argus 105km Cycle race on eight occasions.
Noakes is the author or co-author of more than 350 scientific publications and is on the Editorial Boards of 13 international scientific publications. He is a Fellow of the American College of Sports Medicine. In 1999 he was elected as one of 22 founding members of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Olympic Science Academy. In 2001 he received the International Cannes Grand Prix Award for Research in Medicine and Water, for his studies of water intoxication in athletes. In 2002 he received the Doctor of science degree from the University of Cape Town.
His book Lore of Running is in its fourth edition in South Africa and the United States and has been translated into Japanese. It is widely praised as the most complete such book yet written – the “Bible” of running. In 2003, Lore of Running was awarded the University of Cape Town Book Award. Noakes is also co-author of Running Injuries (with Steve Granger), Lore of Cycling, Running Your Best (with Steve Granger) and Rugby Without Risk (with Morné du Plessis).

Frank Biller

Born and raised in Switzerland, Frank currently lives, works, and rows in the Philadelphia area. Being involved with rowing and watersports for almost 20 years, Frank is familiar with the unique European and North American rowing styles and qualities of the sport. He was a member of the Swiss national team and has coaching experience at the junior/high school and elite level. Frank holds an MBA and MS from Drexel University and represents Nielsen-Kellerman for all their sports performance measurement products worldwide.

Carsten Hassing

Carsten Hassing is the latest addition to the RCA women's program. He worked for the Danish Federation for the last three Olympic cycles, qualifying crews for the finals in each Games, and has coached nine world-level medalling crews since 1993.
From 2000 to 2005, he worked with Bent Jensen in the successful lightweight men's program in Denmark, and before that he assisted in coaching women's crews.
Hassing, who coached the women’s pair to a gold at the 2006 World Championships, is currently based at the London Training Centre.

Emil Kossev

Emil Kossev is the head coach at Seattle’s Pocock Rowing Center (www.pocockrowing.org) and a member of the 2004 U.S. Olympic rowing team staff. Since 1992, twenty-six of Emil’s athletes and crews have earned medals in the elite international competition (World Championships, Pan American Games, Nation’s Cup, Olympic Qualification Regatta) including silver medal at the 2005 World Championships, a bronze at the 2004 World Championships, two silver and two bronze medals at the 2003 Pan American Games and gold in the men’s single sculls at the 2000 Olympic Qualification Regatta and gold in the men’s single sculls at the 2000 Slovakian Olympic Trials. His athletes have also won gold’s in the men’s single sculls at the 2004 U.S. Olympic Trials and women’s single sculls at the 2000 U.S. Olympic Trials. Kossev is a four-time Bulgarian national team member and won thirteen Bulgarian national sculling titles between 1982 and 1991.
In March 2005 Emil was a first-time nominee for the Counsilman Award given by US Olympic Committee (USOC) and is being recognized for his practical application of sport science in the preparation of elite athletes for high-performance competitions.
The Counsilman Science Award promotes the use of sport science in achieving athletic excellence among United States national team coaches and is named for the late U.S. Olympic swimming team coach, inventor, author, and professor James “Doc” Counsilman.
Emil graduated from the National Sport Academy in Sofia, Bulgaria with a BA of Physical Education and Coaching Sculling.
He has his Master of Sport in rowing from the Bulgarian League for Physical Culture and Sport in Sofia.

Jane LaRiviere

Jane LaRiviere is in her 5th year as the Head Rowing Coach at Washington State University. In 2006 WSU earned a 4th place team finish at the NCAA Rowing Championships. This marked the best finish in program history and the highest finish ever by any women’s team in WSU history. This past June, LaRiviere was honored with the PAC-10 Coach of the year award and the Collegiate Rowing Coaches Association named her the West Region Coach of the Year. LaRiviere began her career in 1989 and has enjoyed coaching stints at Oregon State University, The University of Western Ontario, and the London Rowing Club. She is a certified level III coach in both Canada and the U.S. LaRiviere earned her Ph.D. in biomechanics from Oregon State in 2002. Her daughter Alice Jean LaRiviere was born on August 16, 2003.

Tim Lee

Timothy D. Lee, PhD, is a professor in the Department of Kinesiology at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario. He has published more than 80 peer-reviewed articles in motor behavior and psychology journals and is co-author with Richard Schmidt of one of the leading textbooks in the area: Motor Control and Learning: A Behavioral Emphasis. He has contributed as an editor for the Journal of Motor Behavior and the Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport and as an editorial board member for the Psychological Review. His research has been supported continuously since 1984 by grants from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada.
Dr. Lee is a member and past president of the Canadian Society for Psychomotor Learning and Sport Psychology, and a member of the North American Society for the Psychology of Sport and Physical Activity, the Psychonomic Society, and the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society. In his leisure time Tim enjoys playing hockey, golf, and listening to the blues.

Carol Love

A former Canadian National Team member and Olympian, Carol is presently Head Coach of Peterborough Rowing Club and Trent University. In the past she has coached the U23 National Team and more recently was Head Coach of the Ontario Team at the Canada Summer Games in Regina. A graduate of McMaster University with a Physical Education degree, Row Ontario's Vice President of Athlete and Coaching Development, and a parent of five rowers, she has a passionate interest in the Long Team Athlete Development Model.

Chuck McDiarmid - bio to come

Kristina Molloy

Kristina Molloy has been involved in rowing for more than 10 years as an athlete and coach. Starting at the Argonaut Rowing Club, Kristina coached at the University of British Columbia and the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia. In 2003, Kristina established an adaptive rowing program in Vancouver, the first of its kind in western Canada. She coached the men’s and women’s arms only singles at the 2006 World Championships in Eton, England. Kristina’s passion for sport and coaching took her to Rwanda for a year with Right To Play where she established sports programs in refugee camps, trained coaches and had great success starting unprecedented sports programs for women. She currently lives in Vancouver working for Vancouver 2010 as coordinator for the Paralympic Games.

Larry Marshall

Larry started rowing way back in 1974 at university, and have rowed competitively since 1982. He has coached extensively in Toronto at University of Toronto, Upper Canada College, and at the Argonaut Club. Coaching a wide spectrum of athletes including novices, learn to row programs, high school, masters, and athletes going to speed orders, Larry brings to coaching a wealth of expertise and experience. He has served at the captain and head coach at the Argonaut Rowing Club at various time since 1982. In 2004, Larry started working with Adaptive Rowing and coached Rich Vanderwaal in the men’s single at the World Championships.

Ian McFarlane

At this conference, Ian will facilitate the Level 3 technical course. Ian has been involved in rowing for 30 years as a rower and a coach. He spent 7 years coaching with the National Team at the Commonwealth Games, World Championships and Olympics. He is one of the founding coaches of the Queen's University Rowing Program. He is a member of RCA's Master Course Conductor Committee and RCA's Level 4/5 Committee. Ian has considerable experience in sport as a coach in wrestling, hockey and soccer. Presently, Ian is the President of the Ontario Principals Association.

Ed McNeely

Ed McNeely received his Masters degree in Exercise physiology from the University of Ottawa in 1994 and has been involved in the strength and conditioning industry for 15 years. He is currently a partner in StrengthPro Inc. He has been a consultant to 17 Canadian National and professional sports teams. Ed is the author of two books, Training for Rowing, and Skillful Rowing, and is currently working on a book about integrating strength training into the High School and Middle School PE curriculum. Ed is a frequent speaker at National and international sport and fitness conferences, having done over 75 presentations in the past 10 years at conferences such as the NSCA National Convention, the AAHPERD National Convention, the Society of Weight Training Injury Specialists Conference, ECA Sport and Fitness Conference, Coaching Association of Canada Conferences, Rowing Canada Conferences, Ontario Minor Hockey Association Clinics, Joy of Sculling Conferences, and Olympic Solidarity Conferences

Al Morrow

For many years, Hamilton, Ontario native, Al Morrow, has been at the helm of Canada's women's rowing program - coaching World and Olympic medallists including Marnie McBean, Kathleen Heddle, Emma Robinson, Alison Korn, Lesley Thompson and many other talented women.
In 1999, the London, Ontario-based coach was recognized by the world rowing federation (FISA) as Coach of the Year. The women's eight brought home a bronze medal from the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games.
Morrow was recently inducted into the Canadian Sports Hall of Fame (2006). He is now concentrating on the development of the women's program.

Dr. Volker Nolte

Volker was Canada's lightweight men's coach from 1993 to 2000. He coached the lightweight men's eight that won gold at the 1993 World Championships. In 1996, his lightweight men's four won silver at the Olympics in Atlanta and in 1997, he coached the lightweight men's eight that won a bronze medal at the Worlds. He is an assistant professor in the faculty of Kinesiology at the University of Western Ontario. Volker is involved in many of RCA's innovative coaching education initiatives, specifically the Rowing Video Database and he was a contributing editor to Rowing Canada's magazine. Recently, Volker worked with a number of leading rowing experts to publish a book entitled "Rowing Faster".

Terry Paul

As a coxswain for the 1992 men's eight, Terry helped the crew bring home gold for Canada from the Barcelona Games. Terry is a graduate of the National Coaching Institute and is a Level 4 coach. In 1996 Terry coached the men’s eight to a fourth place finish. Since then, he has gained much experience as a coach in Canada with the men's program and with the Swiss National Team. At the 2004 Under 23 World's, Terry coached the Lightweight Men's four to a bronze medal. He is currently heading up RCA's successful development program.

Courtney Pollock - bio to come

Mike Spracklen

Men's coach Mike Spracklen returned to Canada in 2001 after coaching in the U.S. and his native Britain. In the early 1990s, he coached the Canadian men's eight to a gold at the 1992 Olympics and was Silken Laumann's coach for both the 1992 and the 1996 Olympics. Most recently, he served as chief coach (women) in Great Britain - coaching the women's quad to a silver in Sydney. Since 1975, he has coached rowers to more than 30 medals at the World level. In 2002, Spracklen's men's eight made history as the first Canadian heavyweight crew to win gold in this event, and they repeated their win in 2003. Mike coached the Men's Four to a silver medal at the 2004 Olympics in Athens.

Tim Taha

Dr. Tim Taha is a Professor in the Faculty of Physical Education and Health at the University of Toronto where he teaches Exercise Physiology and Biomechanics. His research, funded by the Department of National Defence, generated mathematical models that predict training and future performances in elite athletes. Dr. Taha has coached rowing for over 10 years, during which time he received coaching awards and developed many athletes to national and international levels of competition. As an athlete, he competed for over 20 years winning medals at Canadian Henley, US Nationals, and the Head of the Charles Regatta, among others. Dr. Taha continues to enjoy rowing and bringing innovation through science and research to the development of elite athletes.

Mike Thompson

Mike Thompson is a Level 4 coach, who has coached the RCA Junior National Team, most recently with the women’s team over the last two years. He is Past President of RowOntario, and serves as a NCCP Course Conductor and Mentor Coach for RowOntario and RCA. Mike coaches for the St. Catharines Rowing Club, and is Vice-Principal at Lakeport Secondary School, St. Catharines.

Carolyn Trono

Carolyn Trono is Rowing Canada Aviron’s Director of Coach Development and has been responsible for coaching development for the past ten years. Currently, Carolyn is heavily involved in re-designing RCA’s NCCP workshops as well as in the implementation of RCA’s Long Term Athlete Development Model. She works with a number of National Sport Organizations including Athletics Canada, Water Polo Canada and Special Olympics Canada.