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Charles Huthmaker, Head Coach
Charles brings 22 years of rowing and coaching this summer to the
USRowing Development Camp. Currently Charles is coaching at Connecticut
Boat Club in Norwalk, CT where he assists with the Varsity crews and
coaches sculling. CBC has qualified 4 crews for the USRowing Youth
Championships this spring. In 2004 Charles came to the USRowing
Development and Selection camps in New London as the Equipment Mangaer
and in 2005 was the sculling coach for the USRowing Junior Girls
Development and Junior B camps. At the 2005 USRowing National
Championships his boats won the Junior Double and the Junior B Double in
addition to a Silver medal in the Junior B Quad. That same summer saw
the Junior 16 quad win gold at the Independence Day Regatta. Lastly,
at the 2005 CanAmMex Regatta both the women's quad and the women's
double won gold.
In
1988 he started rowing at Stetson University and a passion for crew was
born. Having coached at all levels of rowing from beginner to elite,
his crews have won local, regional and national championships. His
experiences include UMass, Yale and Stetson Univ., Orlando Rowing Club,
Atlanta Rowing Club, Norwalk River Rowing and Connecticut Boat Club.
During summers, Charles has assisted at the USRowing Women's Senior
Selection Camp and the USRowing Junior Women's Selection and
Development Camps and in 2006 he was the Director of the USRowing
Sculling Development Camp in Northamption, MA. Charles recently married
and lives in Trumbull with his wife Jackie. When he's not
coaching Charles is renovating his 18th century home in Norwalk, CT.
Brad Hemmerly, Assistant Coach
 Brad Hemmerly is in his second year with the US Jr Women's Development Camp. Hemmerly was the interm head coach at Williams College for the 2010-2011 season after spending two years at Williams and brings the knowledge of how to run a large, nationally competitive organization, and how to coach multiple crews to championship level performances. Hemmerly was charged with the task of heading up recruiting, developing freshmen, and molding walk-on athletes into nationally competitive rowers.
Hemmerly has met and exceeded all of the challenges. His Eph crews have gone undefeated and assisted the Williams program in capturing the New England Rowing Conference Championship, ECAC National Invitational Championship, and the NCAA National Championship Team and Varsity Eight titles.
Williams women’s crew is in the midst of an unparalleled streak -- winning five consecutive NCAA Rowing Championships in NCAA Division III. Overall the Ephs have won six NCAA titles, including the first one offered by the NCAA in 2002.
In addition to coaching at Williams, Hemmerly spent a portion of the summer as an assistant coach at the US Rowing Junior Women’s Development Camp. The goal of the US camp was teaching basic boat moving skills and giving the developing young athletes important information to aid their improvement throughout the coming year.
Prior to arriving at Williams, Hemmerly was an assistant coach with the women’s club program at his alma mater, The Ohio State University, for three years. He led the novice crews to podium finishes at every major regatta and finished his final season at OSU by leading the Women’s Varsity Eight to gold at the inaugural ACRA Championship.
During his tenure at OSU, his crews not only won medals at SIRA, Dad Vails, and ACRA, they also won the 2007 Dad Vail Women’s Team Championship and the 2008 ACRA Women’s Team Championship.
Hemmerly is a 2007 graduate of Ohio State University where he earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering.
Tricia Blocher, Assistant Coach
 Tricia Blocher is entering her first year with the USJNT Development Program. Tricia is in her third year as the head coach for the Juniors Program at River City Rowing Club in West Sacramento, CA. During this time, she has qualified crews at the USRowing Youth Nationals in 2009 and 2010 (a club first). In 2009, her single sculler earned a silver and in 2010, her women's 4x placed 3rd in the petite final. In the three seasons Coach Blocher has been at RCRC, the junior team has nearly tripled in size and has several athletes competing at top collegiate programs. Coach Blocher was the women's assistant coach at UC Davis from 2007 to 2008 where her 2nd Novice 8+ earned gold at eh WIRA's championship.
Blocher earned her bachelor.s degree in Exercise Science at The Ohio State University in 2005 where she rowed for four year. Tricia went onto train and compete for a premier cycling team and half ironman triathlons. At the same time, she was training athletes for football combines and high school sports. In 2009, she completed her Masters' Degree in Excersice Physiology at UC Davis and is currently working on publishing her study dealing with rowers and lactate tolerance.
Erica Mahon, Assistant Coach
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