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Steve Perry

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Steve Perry enters his third season as head coach of the Big Green lightweight rowing program. In two years Perry has taken the lightweight team to both the Ivy League and EARC Championships in 2007.

Perry is a 1999 graduate of Rutgers University where he was a three-year first boat member earning two MVPs and serving as co-captain his senior year. He came to Dartmouth from Annapolis, Md. where he coached the Navy Plebe (Freshmen) Lightweights for three successful years.

At Dartmouth, Perry has guided the Big Green to two-straight winning seasons, including Dartmouth’s third-ever win of the EARC Varsity Lightweight Eight and Ivy League title. Perry’s 2006 crew also won the Biglin Bowl, versus Harvard and MIT, for only the third time in it’s 55 year existence.

The 2007 championship varsity crew also went 6-1 and led the first campaign since 1994 that Dartmouth has won three of four cup races. In 2006, Perry also led the Dartmouth varsity boats to their first appearance in the Grand Final at the Eastern Sprints since 2002. His first varsity boat earned Dartmouth’s second straight regular season wins over Cornell and Yale. Under his tutelage, the Big Green first varsity has a combined regular season record of 10-2.

Perry took over Navy’s Plebe lightweights in 2002 and had an immediate impact in Navy’s turnaround into a league power. Producing the first Navy freshman lightweight rowing championship team in 20 years, Perry’s freshman crews

posted a combined 33-1 record over his three seasons.

At the EARC (Eastern Association of Rowing Colleges) Sprints in 2005, his first freshman and second freshman crews both won gold medals. During the 2004 Eastern Sprints, his first freshmen captured silver and his second freshmen struck gold. In his first season with Navy at the Sprints in 2003, both of his eights won gold medals.

Prior to his stint with the Midshipmen, Perry spent one year at Penn as the men’s freshman lightweight coach. His freshman crews provided the program with its first winning season in 10 years. His first boat compiled a 5-2 regular season record and placed sixth at the Eastern Sprints, while his second freshman crew went 4-3 during the season and finished fifth at the Sprints.

Perry’s first coaching job came at his alma mater, Rutgers, where he was the men’s freshman lightweight coach during the 2000 and 2001 seasons. Both years, his crews made the Grand Final of the Eastern Sprints and finished their seasons above .500.

A four-year oarsman from 1995-99, The co-captain and stroke of the 1999 team, Perry led Rutgers to a silver medal at the 1999 IRA (Intercollegiate Rowing Association) Collegiate National Championship.