USRowing Coach Highlight: Hilary Gehman

Hilary Gehman's love of rowing didn't start until college when she joined a club team. She was inspired by watching friends succeed in rowing and decided to train to be competitor. She "pulled a fast erg score" which got her a place on the 1999 U.S. National Team, leading to her participation in the 2000 and 2004 U.S. Olympic Teams and her coaching career.

Birthplace: Shirley, MA

Hometown: Wolfeboro, NH

High School: Kingswood Regional High, Wolfeboro, NH

College: Colby College, Bachelor of Arts in Sociology and Classical Civilization, minor in Environmental Studies.

Athletics: Club Crew, JV Field Hockey, Varsity Nordic Ski Team

Career: From 2016 to present, she is the events manager and director of Mercer Rowing Programs for Princeton National Rowing Association and the 2021 U.S. Olympic Team Women's Crew Coach.

Personal: Parents, Wayne and Louise Gehman; husband Matt Smith- Crew Olympian and currently Princeton University Men's Crew Coach; 2 children

Crew Career Highlights:

1996-1998; Lewis & Clark College, Portland, OR, Co-Head Coach of Club Rowing program

Six-time member of the U.S. National Rowing Team

2000-2003; Georgetown University Novice Women's Rowing Coach

2000 Summer Olympics, Sydney, Australia (quadruple scull)

2004 Summer Olympics, Athens, Greece (quadruple scull)

2004-2007; Cornell University, Ithaca, NY Novice Women's Rowing Coach

2007-2014; Cornell University, Ithaca, NY Staley Head Coach of Women's Rowing

2008, 2009, 2011 ran USRowing Women's National Team Freshman Camp

2010 Coach of the Under 23 Women's Quad that placed fourth at the 2010 World Rowing Championships

2010, 2011 Collegiate Rowing College Association Mid-Atlantic Coach of the Year