Biography:

Trevor Barry was recruited to row as a heavyweight by the University of Delaware in 2004. He began coaching with W.T. Woodson High School (HS) in 2010, served as their Head Coach, co-founded Still Water Rowing Club, and most recently coached with Thomas Jefferson HS for Science & Technology prior to moving to the Loudoun region.  He became SB Rowing's 4th Head Coach in Summer 2021.

Trevor has coached a combination of crews to three Virginia State Championships, two Silver medals, three bronze, and several semi-final appearances at SRAA Nationals and the Stotesbury Cup Regatta. As Head Coach at W.T. Woodson HS, the team won its first National Championship in an 8s category, and over 75% of students finished 1st, 2nd, or 3rd in the Virginia State Championship Regatta. Students took home thirty-six gold medals, twenty-three silver medals, and twenty-seven bronze medals in two years. While coaching Masters for the Northern Virginia Rowing Club, two crews won National Championships, two others placed, his Men’s 8+ set several Occoquan course records, and his Men’s 8+ earned an automatic bid to the Head of the Charles – finishing 20th.

Trevor teaches Engineering at the Loudoun Academy of Engineering and Technology and resides in Winchester, VA

Biography:

Coach Kate Copeland began rowing in Spring of 2011 for Stone Bridge High School. She was part of the very first group of rowers to row all 4 years of high school. After graduating from Stone Bridge in 2015, she went onto continue her collegiate rowing career at Virginia Commonwealth University. She represented VCU at many well-known regattas such as Head of the Charles and ACRA. During her senior year she was elected as Women's Team Captain and awarded Women's Team MVP by the women's coaching staff. In May of 2019, she received her Bachelors degree in Public Relations with a minor in Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness. 

After graduating college, she is excited to be continuing her rowing career as a coach for her former high school. She wants to encourage teamwork and camaraderie in her rowers both on and off the water. That is what she believes it takes to not only win medals, but to maintain the love of the sport and have fun. Kate became SB Rowing's Assistant Head Coach in Summer 2021.

Biography:

Coach Kittelson was introduced to the sport of rowing in 2018 as a parent helping out coach McCormick. This time renewed his interest in returning to coaching and when the need for an assistant coach arose in the spring of 2019 he was open to the challenge. Watching the success of the JV 4 women last year at states and nationals motivated him to complete the Level 1 and Level 2 US Rowing Coaches certification. Coach Kittelson has 10+ years of experience coaching high school sports in Northern Virginia. He is excited about the upcoming season and looks forward to sharing in the athlete’s success again this year.  

Biography:

James Zeller grew up on Long Island where, during his high school years in the late 1970s to early 1980s, rowing generally did not exist. So he was introduced to the sport relatively late.

He played football in high school, and continued with it for his freshman year at Marietta College in southeast Ohio. After the season was finished, one of his football teammates suggested crew as a means to keep fit and try something new. With only a vague impression of long, skinny rowboats, he agreed.

First there was the terror of being placed in a four man shell in a swift-flowing river on a cold, windy day in mid November after about fifteen minutes on the rowing machine. Then there was the intimidation with the growing realization that rowing is one of the most physically demanding sports there is. These were gradually replaced with a growing respect for the sport, then pride in overcoming one after another physical or technical challenge. There also developed pride in taking on, and beating, teams from colleges and universities much larger than Marietta College.

But most important were two things: First was the intense satisfaction and joy that was experienced when the crew truly "swung", where the crew was completely synchronized, the rowing became almost effortless, and the boat would literally lift higher in the water. Second was the degree of camaraderie developed among a crew that is above and beyond what is developed by any other team sport.

Coach Zeller medaled in several regattas during his college career, including the West Virginia Governor's Cup, the Head of the Muskingum, the Southern Intercollegiate Rowing Association Championships (SIRA), the Mid American Collegiate Rowing Association Championships (MACRA), and the Philadelphia Frostbite Regatta. However, his most memorable race was missing the medals stand by less than a half second at the Dad Vail regatta in a "Cinderella Story" JV8. He was co-captain of the Marietta College men's crew and winner of the "Hammer Award" for best erg score in his senior year of 1986.

Other than a brief period in the early 1990s, when he rowed recreationally with some co-workers, crew fell out of his life. Then, one day in 2006, he was cold-called by Kevin Suter, former classmate and teammate, informed that he and his family were relocating to Ashburn, and demanded to know where there was a place to row. This lead to a rekindling of rowing, first for fitness, then for competition at the Master's level; racing in singles, pairs, doubles and fours. As a Master, he has medaled at the Mid-Atlantic Erg Sprints, the Occoquan Masters Sprints and the Capital Sprints. He worked with Kevin to help get the rowing program for Briar Woods HS off the ground in 2011, and again with Stone Bridge HS since 2012. He is also serving as Secretary for the Virginia Scholastic Rowing Association (VASRA).

Coach Zeller has lived in Ashburn Farm since 1990 with his wife Sharon, fellow college classmate and coxswain for the Marietta College women's crew, and their children Richard and Margaret. When he isn't doing something rowing related, he develops highway improvement projects for the Virginia Department of Transportation. Sharon teaches 2nd grade at Cedar Lane Elementary School in Ashburn.

Biography:

Jaclyn Hoffman began rowing in 2007 at Pomfret School in Northeastern Connecticut. During the summers of 2009 and 2010 she trained with the St. Catharines Rowing Club in Ontario where she won gold at the 2010 Canadian Henley in the Senior Women’s Lightweight 8. In the fall of 2011, she continued her rowing career at NCAA Div. 1 Bucknell University. Her notable races while at Bucknell include the 2013 Patriot League Championship where she helped the V4+ win gold and defeat the Naval Academy by over 7 seconds, as well as winning gold at the 2014 Dad Vail Regatta in the JV8.

Jaclyn graduated from Bucknell in 2015 with a degree in Geography, and currently works as an Account Manager at Esri specializing in geographic information systems. Jaclyn’s current athletic endeavors include trail running, having recently completed the Patapsco Valley Trail 50k in 2020.

Jaclyn looks forward to sharing her passion for rowing with student-athletes and giving back to the local community.