| About Coach Ted Bonanno |
| Ted Bonanno has served as head crew coach for both the men’s and women’s programs at Fordham University since 1989. During this time, his crews have medaled at the Dad Vail in eighteen consecutive seasons and nine of his crews have had undefeated seasons. Ted’s Fordham crews have won seventeen national championships, including a Division I National Collegiate Championship, the I.R.A National Championship, eleven at the Dad Vail Championship, and three at the ECAC National Collegiate Invitational Regatta. His crews have also won the San Diego Crew Classic, Augusta Invitational and the Varsity Open Four title at the Atlantic-10 Championships six times. |
| Ted has taken Fordham crews overseas to the Henley Royal Regatta four times and the Women’s Henley Regatta twice. His Fordham team has also raced and trained in Ireland, winning the Galway Regatta in 1999. In addition to his responsibilities as Head Coach, Ted also serves as Assistant Athletic Director at Fordham. |
| Ted began his college coaching career at Rutgers University in 1970 and directed their lightweight program to its best team performance at the Eastern Sprints in school history. He served as head coach and director of rowing for Columbia University for eight years during which time his varsity heavyweight eight won the nationally acclaimed Rusty Callow Award and produced the school’s top four finishes at the I.R.A. in the last 77 years. |
| During his outstanding collegiate coaching career, Ted has also been actively involved in domestic and international rowing. While he was a head coach of the New York Athletic Club, his crews won more than 500 medals at the US Nationals, and Canadian Henley. He has also run Senior National Team Olympic Development Camps for the United States Rowing Association during seven summer seasons and produced gold medal performances at US Nationals and Canadian Henley each year. Ted directed the Nereid Boat Club’s summer program for four years, and brought Nereid to national prominence with a second place finish in men’s and women’s rowing at the 2002 US Rowing Championships. More recently, he is directing the summer program for the New York Rowing Association from the Peter J. Sharp Boathouse. |
| Internationally, Ted rowed on the U.S. National Team in the 1970’s and has continued competing world wide as head coach of national teams for Puerto Rico, Guatemala, and India. He has been selected to coach at four Olympic Games, including the 2000 Games in Sydney, Australia. In addition, Ted has competed in five World Championships and two Pan American Games. |
| In addition to coaching, Ted has served on the Board of Directors and Executive Committee of the U.S. Rowing Association, and chaired the National Lightweight Rowing Committee. He is currently serving as chair of rowing coaches for the Atlantic-10 Conference. |
| Ted lives with his wife Barbara, near the Fordham Campus, in the neighborhood where he was raised, the Country Club section of the Bronx. |
| About Coach Nick Dawe |
| With the largest Fordham Rowing team in the program's history US National Team athlete, Nick Dawe, enters his third year on the Fordham Rowing staff as the Recruiting Coordinator/ Assistant Coach. Dawe began his career at Fordham in 2010 as the Women's Freshmen/Novice coach and led one of the largest novice squads in Fordham Women's Rowing history to a strong finish in the Novice Eight at the 2011 Dad Vail Championship. In his second year, Dawe was elevated to full-time assistant coach and recruiting coordinator and helped Fordham Rowing break an all time record at the 2012 Dad Vail Championship with seven crews advancing to the Saturday semi-final and grand-final racing. Dawe, working closely with Ted Bonanno helped develop all seven of the Dad Vail semi-finalist crews. |
| Dawe began rowing as a freshman in high school for the Cincinnati Junior Rowing Club. He helped lead his team to four undefeated regular seasons, 7 gold medals at the Midwest Regional Junior Championships, gold and silver medals in varsity heavyweight 8 at the 2004 and 2005 US Rowing Youth National Championship and a fourth place finish in this event in 2006. He also competed in the Princess Elizabeth Cup at the 2005 Henley Royal Regatta in Great Britain advancing to the quarter-finals. As co-captain his senior year, Nick won the Cincinnati IndoorRowing Championship and was awarded a St. Xavier High School Most Valuable Player award. |
| As a collegiate athlete, Dawe continued his rowing career at Dartmouth College on the Men's Lightweight Crew. He was part of a very successful freshmen crew (5-1 dual race record) and continued on as a three year member of the first varsity eight. He twice competed in the lightweight 8 grand finals of the IRA National Championship and finished 4th in the varsity lightweight 8 at the 2010 Eastern Sprints Championship. Dawe also served as Commodore of the Lightweight Crew and Vice-President of the Dartmouth Rowing Club his senior year. Dawe received the "Timothy Ryerson Outstanding Freshmen Oarsmen" award for his athletic performance and leadership role on the freshmen team. The following year he was awarded the "Class of 1990 Underclassman of the Year" award for his achievements as a sophomore on the varsity squad. In addition to his stellar collegiate athletic career and while a full time student at Dartmouth, Nick also worked for Rowing News Magazine in Lebanon, NH throughout 2008. |
| Nick has twice competed at an elite level. During the summer of 2009, he was a member of Riverside Boat Club's elite summer program and competed in their top priority lightweight crews at the Royal Canadian Henley finishing 2nd in both the U23 Lightweight 4- and Senior Lightweight 8. In 2012, Dawe competed for the United States at the World Rowing Championships in Plovdiv, Bulgaria in the four seat of the US Lightweight 8. Nick is one of the few collegiate coaches in the countrythat is currently an athlete on the US National Team. |
| About Coach Mike Sledzinski |
| For the 2012-2013 season, Coach Michael Sledzinski enters his second year as the head of the Frosh/Novice squad. Mike was a four-year member of the Fordham University Men’s Rowing Team from 2007-2011 and brings a wealth of knowledge with him. He has been very successful both as a lightweight and a heavyweight. Some of his most notable accomplishments include a 2nd place finish in the lightweight pair at the 2007 Club National Championships, a 3rd place showing in the heavyweight eight at the 2009 Dad Vail Championship Regatta and the gold medal in the heavyweight four with, at the 2010 US Rowing Collegiate National Championship Regatta. For the 2010-2011 season Mike was the captain of the team. During his four years at Fordham, Mike was an integral part of the team. |
| Prior to accepting the position at Fordham, Mike was an assistant coach at Fordham Preparatory School for three years. During his time at the Prep, several boats made Scholastic Rowing Association Nationals and two crews made it to the US Rowing Youth National Championship regatta. He hopes to bring the success he has had at Fordham Prep to the University. |
| Mike will also be taking over as Boatman for the men and women’s programs. In this role, he will be responsible for the care and repair of all the boats in Fordham’s fleet as well as the maintenance of all equipment. He will also be in charge of transporting the shells to regattas and training trips. |
| About Coach Kynan Reelick |
For the 2012-2013 season, Coach Kynan Reelick enters his first year as the Men's Assistant Varsity Coach. Kynan was a four year member of Syracuse University Heavyweight Crew. As a freshmen, Kynan stroked the 1F to a 7th place finish at the Eastern Sprints and an 8th place finish at the IRA National Championships. His Sophomore year he stroked the Syracuse JV 8 to an 8th place finish at the Eastern Sprints and 9th place at the IRA. During both his Junior year and Senior year Kynan raced in the 1st Varsity 8. During his Junior year his crew made the Grand Final of Eastern Sprints finishing 6th and then went on to finish 9th at the IRA.
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Kynan's collegiate rowing career came after some very successful high school racing in New Zealand before moving to the United States in 2006 to finish out his rowing and raced for the US Junior National Team in 2007 and 2008. In 2004, Kynan's U15 Bethlehem College quad finished second at the North Island championships and then went on to earn a silver at the National Championships. The following year Kynan's U16 quad and double finished second at the North Island Championships and the double finished 4th at the New Zealand National Championships. In 2007 Kynan made it onto the international stage as a junior rower in the United States. He raced in the single for GMS finishing 4th at the USRowing Youth National Championships. Kynan then went on to sit in the 3 seat of the Junior National Team quad at the Beijing Junior World Championships. The following year he finished 2nd in the single for GMS at the Youth National Championships. That summer Kynan represented the United States in the single at the 2008 Linz, Austria Junior World Championships where he finished 15th in the world.
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| In Kynan's debut as a coach at Fordham he brings a tremendous amount of experience both nationally and internationally. |
