DAMEON ENGBLOM

Youth Men’s Coach/ Operations Assistant - Contact Dameon

Dameon comes to us with a plethora of experience with a coaching career spanning the past 18 years and a rowing career beginning in 1997. Most recently, Dameon was an assistant coach with UC San Diego Men’s Rowing program. Dameon has also coached on the college level at University of Pennsylvania and Oregon State University. During his years at the college level he gained invaluable experience in not just coaching fast crews but also building programs

Dameon is also no stranger to juniors rowing, in particular our own southwest region. He started his coaching career with Capitol Crew in 2006 where his boats saw a lot of success. While at Capital his varsity 8 was placed top 5 in the nation all three years of his tenure, with a third place finish in 2007. The lightweight 8 was also a top 10 crew all three years. That stretch remains the best in the program’s history.

On the high school level he has also coached at Oakland Strokes and and Deerfield Academy. Fun fact: Dameon's Deerfield Men's 4+ had a nail biter of a race in 2014 against PRC's 4+ where, after only a few months of training, his boat came in 3rd to PRC which took the gold.

Izzy Nazzal

U17/Women’s Assistant Coach -

Bio Coming

NICK VASQUEZ

U16 Women’s Coach - Contact Nick

Nicolas is returning for their forth year as a PRC coach and eighth year in the PRC community. they are no stranger to adversity in rowing, but from these experiences, they hope to teach their athletes how to be excellent rowers both on and off the water.

Nick’s rowing career began in 2013 as a freshman in high school. they were a scrawny little kid who could barely do a few push ups without getting winded. Thanks to some high school friends, however, they found Pacific and promptly joined the novice men. It was there that they began to excel at the sport of rowing and found themselves and their crew mates performing exceptionally well in the Novice 8+ and Freshman 8+ categories. As a varsity rower, they spent time in every kind of boat from the 8+ to the 2x and was named the most improved athlete in the 2015-2016 season.

Nick continued rowing as a college student at the University of Washington. They joined the club rowing team and became Team Captain in 2019. That year, they led many boats to success at master-level regattas as both a rower in the boat and as a student-coach in the launch. They rowed in the 8+ that won gold the 15K Otter Island Regatta in Everett, and he coached the 4x that took silver in the 1K Frostbite Regatta in Seattle.

Alongside coaching, Nick is now pursuing their Master’s Degree in Physics at San Francisco State University.

GAVIN CALLIES

Boat Man / Masters Coach - Contact Gavin

Gavin fixes boats and everything else that is broken.

ADRIAN JOHNSON

Assitant Youth/U17 Men’s Coach - Contact Adrian

Adrian started his rowing career at Cambridge University in the UK. In his second year of rowing he was part of his college first VIII that went Head of the May Bumps - the first time his college had been Head for 143 yrs. After leaving Cambridge he rowed and sculled for several clubs in the London and SE England area. Highlights included reaching the finals of the Thames Cup at Henley Royal Regatta and a silver medal at the GB National Championships.

After taking a break from rowing to explore other interests (cycling, running,  being a Dad!) he started coaching for PRC, initially as a volunteer for the Middle School Program then as an Assistant Coach for the Novice and Varsity Mens teams. Adrian is a keen student of human movement and is passionate about long term athletic development. In particular, teaching people how to make best use of their bodies to get the most out of themselves in a safe and healthy manner.

WILL AUBIN

U16/Novice Men’s Coach - Contact Will

Will started rowing his sophomore year of high school after an unremarkable football career. He went on to row for three years at Leon High School in Tallahassee, FL, and in his senior year, helped form what is now known as Capital City Rowing. After rowing in high school, he continued rowing at Emory University in Atlanta, where he rowed for four years, holding the position of team captain for his final two years on the team. At Emory, he participated in the Head of The Charles Regatta, Dad Vails, USRowing Sculling Development Camp, and ACRAs. Throughout his rowing career, Will was consistently the rower that fell just short of making the top boat in high school and college. He takes this perspective of what it feels like to fall just short of a goal and the importance of the team making top boats fast with him as a coach.

Since transitioning to the coaching side of the sport, Will has coached across many different levels, from Masters to middle school. He has recently coached at Emory University as the Novice women's coach and at Los Gatos Rowing Club as a masters and middle school coach. He is passionate about diversifying the sport and improving pathways for a boathouse to become a true community boathouse.

Outside of rowing, Will previously worked in education as both a classroom teacher and a program manager at City Year. He currently works as a project manager at Silicon Valley Community Foundation, supporting capacity and leadership development for local nonprofits. He holds a Masters of Education from Harvard University's Graduate School of Education. He looks forward to calling Pacific Rowing Club his rowing home and developing young athletes' love for the sport as the Novice men/U16 coach.

SARAH SIEGEL

Assistant Men’s /Middle School Coach - Contact Sarah

Sarah got a late start in the world of rowing as a walk-on athlete for the Stanford University Lightweight Women's team where she raced for three seasons and volunteered as the assistant novice coach her final year. After graduating, she started looking for ways to remain involved in the rowing community, which brought her to PRC! This is Sarah's third year with the Middle School program and she looks forward to assisting the Varsity Men's team as well. Sarah loves working with young athletes and developing their rowing technique while maintaining a collaborative and fun environment. When she is not coaching she works in psychology research at the SFVA and is an MFA candidate at University of San Francisco.

JOHN PAUL

Assistant Coach - Contact John

Another San Francisco native, John started rowing right here at Pacific. While here he traveled to the US Youth Rowing Nationals twice earning a bronze medal in the lightweight eight in 2005. He also participated in a regional development camp in 2004 where he traveled to US Rowing Summer Club Nationals and won a bronze in the youth varsity eight category. His senior year he was voted team captain. After high school he rowed four years as a lightweight for the US Naval Academy. His sophomore year his junior varsity eight went undefeated and won the eastern sprints. He participated in three IRA national championships and in 2010 he earned a silver medal in the lightweight eight.

John graduated with a degree in Mechanical Engineering and served eight years as an Infantry Officer in the US Marine Corps. John lives in San Francisco where he attends law school and works part time with the club. He began coaching at Pacific in 2018 and has brought a unique perspective to the team.

COACH ANTHONY

Master’s Assistant Coach/Outreach - Contact Anthony

First Generation College Graduate of Polynesian and San Francisco Irish-Italian Immigrants, recruited to row at the University of Washington and graduated in the field Peer Health Education and worked for Seattle-King County Public Health. (Re)Emerging into rowing after a 10 year hiatus, Coach Anthony has coached the middle school rowing program at Nor-Cal, and water recreational athletics with BIAC for the Redwood City youth, and has experience with youth development for over 10+ years. As a member of this highly engaged sport, Coach Anthony, will further provide athletes a deeper understanding of mindfulness.

CONALL KEANE

Assistant - U16 Men’s Coach - Contact Conall

Conall Keane is a recent graduate of PRC. He is a graduate of Pacific and Wallenberg High School. Now he is an economics major at San Francisco State University. He is also an assistant coach for the novice men. Conall is ready to develop our novice athletes into a great future for Pacific.