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Topher Bordeau

M Crew Heavyweight

Head Coach

Experience: 1st Year

Alma Mater: Princeton
1998

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Release: 09/29/2006

Topher Bordeau was named Head Coach of Dartmouth Heavyweight Rowing on July 29, 2006. Having been involved in rowing for 19 years, Bordeau is excited about the opportunity to make his mark as a head coach.

   “I’m acutely aware that my career is going to be defined by what Dartmouth crews do in the future, and that’s appealing to me,” says Bordeau. “Only six schools have won the Eastern Sprints Championship in the past 25 years: Dartmouth, Harvard, Brown, Penn, Wisconsin, and Princeton. That’s an elite club, and Dartmouth has a spot in it.   Success here isn’t just a dream, it isn’t just something we’re chasing somewhere down the road. It’s a concrete part of our past, and it’ll be a concrete part of our future, too. Dartmouth has the facilities and resources to compete at the highest level of the sport. It’s not a matter of if, it’s when. And I feel fortunate to play a role in making that happen.”

   Bordeau spent the 2006 season coaching the freshman heavyweight crew at Navy, guiding the Midshipmen to their best Eastern Sprints finish in six years. Prior to his stint at Annapolis, he spent three seasons as the freshman lightweight coach at Princeton, where he helped the Tiger novices capture two silver medals and one bronze at the Sprints and IRA and assisted on the 2003 Eastern Sprints Championship varsity squad.

   A 1998 graduate of Princeton (BA, English), Bordeau captained a team that enjoyed unprecedented success, winning three IRA titles, three Eastern Sprints titles, and four Rowe Cups during his time in orange and black.

After graduation, Bordeau moved to England, where he rowed for Oxford University in the 1999 Oxford-Cambridge Boat Race while studying for a Postgraduate Diploma in Social Administration at Oxford’s Hertford College.

In an announcement made by Director of Athletics Josie Harper, she commented that Bordeau’s “successful experience at the highest levels of collegiate rowing, along with his strong leadership skills and firm commitment to the Ivy League model of athletics, made him the ideal choice for this position.”

Bordeau spent the summer of 2007 assisting with the selection and training of the U.S. Under-23 National Team, which made Hanover and the Connecticut River home base in its preparation for the Under-23 World Championships in Strathclyde, Scotland.

When not coaching and recruiting the next generation of Dartmouth heavyweights, Bordeau enjoys swimming, biking, and running, in preparation for his fifth Ironman triathlon.