Nancy LaRocque - Women's Rowing Coach - Dartmouth College Athletics

Nancy LaRocque

Title:
Head Coach
Alma Mater:
UMass Amherst ’97
Email:
Nancy.L.LaRocque@dartmouth.edu
Phone (603):
646-2847
At Dartmouth:
2nd Year (2021-22)

August 2021

Nancy LaRocque is entering her second year as head coach of the Dartmouth women's rowing team in 2021-22.

LaRocque (La-ROAK) has made quite a name for herself in the rowing world. She spent 17 seasons coaching collegiate women, the last seven of which were at the University of Wisconsin.

Hired in August of 2013, LaRocque spent two seasons as the Badgers' freshman rowing coach before being promoted to associate head coach and recruiting coordinator in 2015, a position she had held for the past five years.

While at Wisconsin, she helped guide the Badgers to six NCAA Championship appearances. The team finished as high as ninth place twice (2016, 2017), while also finishing in the top-15 five years in a row. She coached the 2017 second Varsity 8+ to a sixth-place finish.

Prior to arriving in Madison, LaRocque built up a long list of credentials: she was the assistant rowing coach at the University of Tennessee (2009-10), the head rowing coach at West Virginia University, where she directed the startup of a new Division I program which achieved national rankings within three years (2000-07), and the freshman/interim head coach at Vassar (1998-2000).

LaRocque currently serves as President of the Board of Directors of the Collegiate Rowing Coaches Association (CRCA), which recently formulated a Committee on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion to engage the coaching body in those challenges.

The Dover, New Hampshire, native graduated from UMass Amherst in 1997 with a degree in legal studies and anthropology. While there, her team won three consecutive Atlantic 10 Championship titles.