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Taylor Brown was named the John R. Rockwell Assistant Coach for Men’s Lightweight Rowing in March 2023.
 
Brown came to Penn from Austin, Texas where he spent a decade in a variety of roles that included rowing coach, mental performance coaching, and leadership coaching. On the rowing front, he was most recently the Masters Racing Team head coach at Austin Rowing Club, coaching the team to a sixth-place finish at the 2021 USRowing Masters National Championships and third at the 2022 Championships. He also spent four years working with ARC from 2013-17, coaching in a variety of roles including junior boys’ head coach and masters head coach. Taylor coached three junior boats to wins at the Texas State Championships, two to victories at the Junior Regional Championships, and the boys’ quad to an eighth-place finish at Junior Nationals.
 
On the collegiate level, Brown spent the 2015-16 year as a volunteer assistant coach under Dave O’Neill with the University of Texas’ powerhouse women’s rowing program, working across all four Eights during the year and coaching the Longhorns’ 3V8 to gold at the Big 12 Conference Championship races.
 
In addition to his coaching background, Brown has extensive experience in mental performance and well-being. Most recently, he was a mental performance & well-being coach for Major League Rugby’s Austin Gilgronis (aka AG Rugby). He also founded Enduromind Mental Performance Consulting in 2020 and continues with that company as a mental performance consultant. Brown also spent three years as an associate director for leadership programs at UT’s Center for Sports Leadership & Innovation.
 

Phillip Brunner has been an assistant coach with the University of Pennsylvania heavyweight crew program since August 2019.

Brunner helped Penn earn the Clayton W. Chapman Trophy at the 2023 Intercollegiate Rowing Association (IRA) National Championships, indicative of the program that improved the most in the overall team points standings from the previous year.

Brunner came to Penn from Yale University, where he spent 2018-19 as an assistant coach overseeing the Bulldogs’ Third and Fourth Varsity Eights. Both of those boats earned victories at EARC Sprints, and overall Yale placed all of their boats on the podium at the IRA National Championship regatta for the first time in program history. It was Brunner’s second stint at Yale, as he also spent the 2014-15 year with the Bulldogs.
 
In between his Yale coaching stints, Brunner spent three years at Princeton University where he coached medal-winning crews at Sprints and IRAs every year. In 2016, his first year, the Tigers had their best IRA finish since 1998 and was the only heavyweight program to medal in all events entered.
 
Brunner rowed for Notre Dame’s club program in college, graduating in 2011. He then spent three years on the Fighting Irish’s coaching staff—the first as freshman coach, then the next two as head coach. In his final year as head coach, Notre Dame made five of six grand finals and earned two medals (including one gold) at the American Collegiate Rowing Association (ACRA) National Championship regatta.
 
Brunner—who also has experience coaching both the New York and Pennsylvania Athletic Clubs—graduated with a degree in history from Notre Dame.

Penn's do-it-all boatman, Coach Guerrieri will be responsible for the proper use of equipment during camp and the safety of the campers using our boats.

As he does for all three Penn teams, Mike will provide campers assistance as we get boats on and off the water.

A decorated coach in his own right, Mike has held high-level coaching roles at Georgetown, Navy, Hobart and Michigan.

Kumari Lewis has been an assistant coach with the University of Pennsylvania women’s rowing program since August 2017.

During her time on staff, Penn has made significant strides that includes the program's first two full-team appearances at the NCAA Championship, in 2022 and 2023. (Prior to 2022, the Quakers had qualified a Four in 1998). After tying for 11th with SMU in 2022, Penn jumped to sixth in the overall team standings at the 2023 NCAAs as the Varsity Eight finished fourth, the Second Varsity Eight was ninth, and the Varsity Four moved up one spot in its standing from the previous year (16th). In addition, Penn's NCAA boats have won four medals at the Ivy League Championship, two from the Varsity Eight and two from the 2V8.

Following the 2023 spring season, Lewis along with head coach Wesley Ng and fellow assistant Helen Samaniego were named the Collegiate Rowing Coaches Association (CRCA) Region I Staff of the Year. That staff was still in place a month later, when the Quakers made their debuts at both the Henley Women's Regatta and the Henley Royal Regatta over in the United Kingdom. Of particular note, Penn's Varsity Eight advanced all the way to the Island Challenge Cup final at the Royal Regatta, falling just short of beating British University champion Oxford Brookes for the title.

Lewis also has experience coaching with USRowing, coaching for the US Junior National High Performance Camp in 2019 and the Junior National Olympic Development Camp in 2021. She also spent the summers of 2017 and 2018 as a resident assistant with the USRowing Junior National Selection Camp in New London, Conn.

Colin Farrell completed his ninth season as head coach of the Penn lightweights in 2022-23, and his tenth year on Boathouse Row after he served as an assistant coach for the Quakers the previous two seasons. In February 2017, he became the first Fred W. Leonard Head Coach of Lightweight Rowing.
 
Farrell was named Eastern Association of Rowing Colleges (EARC) and Ivy League Lightweight Coach of the Year after Penn's incredibly successful day at the 2019 EARC Sprints. The Varsity Eight won the Sprints championship for the first time since 1976 and just the second time since 1955, while the Second Varsity Eight also medaled with a third-place finish and the Third Varsity Eight beat its seed with a Grand Final appearance..

Under Farrell, the Varsity Eight has medaled three straight years at Sprints, taking third in 2017 and 2018 before winning in 2019. (The Sprints did not run in 2020 or 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.) Prior to 2017, the last time the Quakers were medalists at Sprints was 1992 (second). The last time they won medals three straight years? Try 1950-52.

Farrell's crews have also had success at the IRA National Championship Regatta, the Varsity Eight earning medals in four of the last six Championships after doing so just once from 1994-2016. In 2017, the Quakers were nipped by Cornell by less than a second in earning silver medals, in the process matching the program’s best finish at the event (also 1992). In 2019 and 2023, the Varsity Eight took third place to earn bronze medals while in 2021 Penn was second in a five-boat final. Overall, Penn’s Varsity Eight has made the Grand Final in seven of eight opportunities at IRAs under Farrell, a first in program history since the lightweights started racing at the Championships in 1991.

The 2023 Ivy League and Collegiate Rowing Coaches Association (CRCA) D1 Region I Coach of the Year, Wesley Ng was hired as the University of Pennsylvania's Head Coach for Women's Rowing in July 2015. His tenure at Penn can certainly be qualified as a success to date, when you consider the following...

*Penn has qualified for the NCAA Championship each of the last two years, the first two times the Quakers have qualified as a team. (Penn had a Four compete at the 1998 Championship). After tying for 11th place with SMU in 2022 with 72 points, Penn improved its standing to sixth with 92 points in 2023. In that 2023 Championship, the Quakers' Varsity Eight finished fourth, the Second Varsity Eight took ninth, and the Varsity Four bettered its placement from the previous year by finishing 16th. The Varsity Eight went 32-3 during the regular season while the 2V8 was a staggering 29-1, the only loss coming at Princeton in the final race of the regular season.

*Penn's Varsity Eight has earned its first two medals in program history at the Ivy League Championship, taking second in 2023 and third in 2018, while the Second Varsity Eight has earned bronze each of the last two years. In 2023, Penn finished third in both the overall (66) and NCAA boat (38) point standings at Ivies.

*Penn made its debut at both the Henley Women's Regatta and Henley Royal Regatta in 2023, with the Quakers' Varsity Eight advancing all the way to the Island Challenge Cup final at the Royal Regatta before falling by the closest of margins to British University champion Oxford Brookes in the title race.