Terry Grindstaff
Recreational Sculling
Terry began coaching the Sculling II program
in 2002. He began coaching in 1999, as an assistant to Mike Porterfield
for novice sculling. He managed and coached the ACR novice sculling program
for two years. Terry has been rowing at ACR since 1993 when his two daughters
rowed for TC Williams, and has since participated in many local and regional
regattas. He is often down at the boathouse training rowers to drive launches,
or winterizing outboards and of course, rowing. Terry is a budget manager
at the Environmental Protection Agency.
tgrinders@aol.com
Nick Johnson
Open Competitive Sculling
Nick is the head coach of the Open Competitive Sculling
program, and has been on the ACR coaching staff since 2006. Nick began
his coaching career at Holton-Arms School, where he was the head coach
from 2005 to 2009, before becoming the women's head coach at Bishop O'Connell
High School for a year, and he is currently the women's varsity assistant
coach at Yorktown High School. He has also coached juniors and U-23 rowers
at Thompson Boat Club, Old Dominion Boat Club, and Potomac Boat Club.
Nick holds a Level III coaching certification from USRA, and has attended
the Advanced Clinic, as well as the Joy of Sculling conference. Prior
to coaching, Nick rowed competitively in college at Virginia Tech from
1997-2000, and was a competitive cyclist in the mid-Atlantic region during
the early to mid-00's. Nick currently works for a government contractor
in Arlington, where he also lives with his wife and dog.
nijohnso@yahoo.com
Daron Keller
Novice and Level One Sculling
Daron Keller has been a member of ACR since 1994, but
also rowed in High School and Graduated with "Remember the Titans,"
TC William's first combined class. Daron teaches the Novice and Level
One Sculling classes, as well as the Sweep to Scull class for ACR. When
he is not coaching, you can see him rowing a yellow single. Daron also
is a Level 2 Alpine Ski Instructor and teaches at Whitetail's Childrens
center when it is too cold to row.
skiandrow@aol.com
Jaime Rubini
Masters Sculling
Jaime Rubini has been coaching sculling at
ACR for many years. In the afternoons, he is West Potomac Crew's Head
Coach and ODBC's sculling coach. He is a nationally competitive Masters
rower whose name often can be found in first place. Jaime has an impressive
rowing history with so many medals over so many years we could not possibly
name them all! He is a fixture in the rowing community. He is also an
artisan! Rubini's
Jewelry is well known for his distinctive rowing designs.
wpcoach1@yahoo.com
Peter Stramese
Women's 5 Day Competitive Sweep
Peter Stramese is ACR's head sweep coach and has been
coaching the ACR women's open sweep team since 1998 and has been on the
ACR coaching staff since 1997. Peter's previous coaching experience includes
Head Coach at New Hampshire's Notre Dame Academy, freshman coach at Walt
Whitman High School and sculling coach at Craftsbury Sculling Center.
Peter rowed competitively for the University of Massachusetts at Lowell.
Currently, Peter oversees all ACR equipment maintenance and serves as
the maintenance representative to the ACR steering committee. He holds
a Masters of Science in electrical engineering and is a professional engineer.
Peter runs in his spare time, having completed seven marathons.
peter.stramese@gmail.com
Laura Thornhill
Women's 4 Day Competitive Sweep
Laura Thornhill began rowing at the University of Kansas
in 1995, and began coaching for KU Crew in 1998. Since, she has coached
for the KU Women's Rowing Team and the Kansas City Rowing Club, where
she saw several of her Juniors athletes qualify for and medal at numerous
regional championships as well as the US Rowing Youth National Championships.
She has also recently joined the Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School Crew
coaching staff. She is a Level III USRA Certified coach, and has run three
marathons and rowed the Natchitoches Marathon Rowing Championships twice.
Laura holds a BA in English from the University of Kansas and received
her law degree from the University of Missouri—Kansas City in 2002.
She lives in Washington, DC, and is proud to carry on the tradition of
irrigation ditch rowing.
thornhill.laura@gmail.com
Joshua Baum
Men's 5 Day Competitive Sweep
Joshua Baum is the Men's 5 Day Competitive Sweep Coach.
He is also the Assistant Head Coach for W.T. Woodson in Fairfax, where
he coaches the Women's First Eight. As a Washington, D.C. native, he learned
to row as a freshman in high school, and has loved the sport ever since.
He currently works as a school counselor. He would consider himself "a
jack of all trades, and a master of none," but is working on that
as he hones his coaching ability, becoming extremely sharp. In his free
time, he enjoys watching soccer (his favorite teams are Liverpool and
Real Madrid) and going to Nats games.
jbaum09@gmail.com
