Curtis Jordan
Head Coach • Heavyweight Crew
Trinity '74
Curtis Jordan has been associated with the Tigers' rowing program for 20 years, and he is entering his 10th year as the coach of the heavyweight varsity.
Jordan has been a U.S. national team coach for the last three Olympics. He was co-coach of the bronze medal-winning lightweight fours at the 1996 Atlanta Games and also coached the men's four with cox in Seoul (1988) and Barcelona (1992), where he led the U.S. to a fourth-place finish.
Jordan will share coaching duties this season with New Zealand native Chris Nilsson. He is serving as the head coach of the U.S. National team and will be devoting the majority of his time to preparing the crew for the 2000 Olympics in Sydney.
Chris Nilsson
Interim Men's Heavyweight Coach
Chris Nilsson joins the Princeton boathouse as a coach for the men's heavyweight
crew. Nilsson will assist Curtis Jordan with coaching duties at Princeton.
Nilsson comes to Old Nassau from Oxford University, where he served as an assistant coach for the boat club for the past two years. He
has been involved in coaching since 1981. Nilsson's
rowing experience includes competing in three New Zealand championships (1967, 1968,
1972) and the 1972 Olympics in Munich.
Lori Dauphiny
Head Coach • Women's Open Crew
Washington '85
Lori Dauphiny enters her fourth year as the head coach of women's open crew at
Princeton after leading the Tigers to a 32-3 record
in her first three seasons. Under Dauphiny Princeton has participated in all three
NCAA championships. The 1999 Mid-Atlantic Coach of the Year, Dauphiny led the Tigers to a
4th place finish in the NCAA championships a year ago.
Dauphiny was named head coach of women's crew at the conclusion
of the 1996 season after leading the novice program to five straight
Eastern Sprints titles. She was named EAWRC novice Coach of the Year in 1993
and 1994 and varsity Coach of the Year in 1997. Prior to her arrival at
Princeton, Dauphiny spent two years at Columbia coaching the women's novice crew.
A 1985 graduate of Washington, she enjoyed an outstanding
collegiate career that included a second-place finish at the 1994 National
Collegiate Championships. She also was a three-time winner at the Pac-10
Conference championships, the West Coast's equivalent of the Eastern Sprints.
Dauphiny twice won gold medals for the U.S. at the Canadian Henley.
Dauphiny spent the summers of 1997 through 1999 working as a
coach with the U.S. national team.
Head Coach • Women's Lightweight Crew
Trinity '92
Heather Smith was named the first coach of women's lightweight crew at Princeton in April of 1997. She led the Tigers to a 9-1 record, and two first-place finishes at Eastern Sprints. In only her second year, Smith led the Tigers to the program's first national championship with a first-place finish at the IRA Championship.
Smith came to Princeton from Columbia, where she served as
novice coach and a physical education instructor. Prior
to her year at Columbia, Smith was an intern coach at
Princeton under former women's coach Dan Roock and current women's open coach Lori
Dauphiny. She has also coached at Wisconsin, where
she was active in the development of the
lightweight program.
A 1992 graduate of Trinity, Smith was a three-year varsity rower and two-time captain before earning a bachelor's degree in Russian and Soviet studies and the school's outstanding scholar-athlete award. She also holds a master's in public policy from Trinity.
Brad Woodrick
Rigger
Brad Woodrick enters his seventh year as Rigger for the Princeton crew program. His
contributions at the boathouse have been immeasureable in that time.
In addition to his work with Tiger crews, he has also served as
Rigger to the U.S. national team for the last three years.
He has worked at Princeton University since
1987 in a variety of capacities. Woodrick is a native of
the town of Princeton.
