Cameron Carter

• Position: Head Coach
• Hometown: Wichita, KS

After rowing for 4 years at Wichita State, Cameron Carter continued on for a full year as an assistant coach for the novice men. He then left Wichita to act as the head club coach for Western Reserve Rowing Association in Cleveland Ohio.

In Cleveland, Carter was responsible for coaching all members of the association. This included three high school programs, masters men and women, and several open rowers. At the conclusion of this summer the masters women's four won gold at the Royal Canadian Henley.

In 1990 Carter coached masters rowers at Yankee Rowing Club before moving to Mount Holyoke College to coach for a year and a half in the Eastern Sprints league. He was then invited to fill an extra seat as a lightweight for the Minnesota Boat Club.

He moved next to coach the women's program at the University of Texas at Austin. He quickly began coaching the men as well. While at UT, his team won the all-points trophy two consecutive years in a row at the Great Plains Rowing Championships in Topeka, Kansas. At the SIRAs in 1993 all of the Texas athletes came home with medals. The conclusion of the 1993 season saw five Texas crews make the semifinals at the Dad Vail Regatta, three continue on to the finals, and the women's pair come home with a gold. The men's four continued their season and competed in the Collegiate National Championships in Indianapolis finishing third behind Northeastern and Harvard.

Carter then returned to Wichita State University to assist the program during a transition period. This was short lived as he was soon to become the interim coach here at Washington University. As the head coach at WU, Carter has rebuilt the rowing program.

Rudy Ryback

• Position: Assistant Coach, Novice Men
• Hometown: St. Louis, MO

Rudy started rowing in 1998 when his friends got him to row in a "Rawnucks" (literally, raw-knuckles) boat for the upcoming regatta. He soon joined the St. Louis Rowing Club as a junior and rowed there until 2000. Ryback culminated his junior career with an invite to the Youth National Championships.

While many offers by big schools sparked Rudy's interest, he finally decided on a non-scholarship school and settled down in the mountain-town of Boulder, Colorado. He rowed at CU from 2000-2005 and helped propel the Men's Heavyweight 8+ to a near national rank and an invitation to the IRA. Many summers at USRowing's Junior, Nation's Cup, and Senior Camps developed his skills in big and small boats, sweeping and sculling, as both a lightweight and heavyweight.

Most recently, Ryback was at Riverside Boat Club training for the Lightweight 8+ and acted as an Assistant Coach with G-ROW (inner-city middle school girls rowing) out of CRI. In between practices, Rudy can be found in the single and enjoying many other endurance sports.