Head coach Liz O'Leary was appointed to her position at Harvard-Radcliffe prior to the 1987 season. Since that appointment, Liz has kept Radcliffe at the pinnacle of women’s collegiate rowing. Radcliffe is perennial contender for the NCAA National Championships, having earned an invitation to every NCAA regatta save one since the inception of the regatta in 1997. Liz’s crews are consistent medal winners at the Eastern Sprints Regatta. Liz also owns a 137-66 dual-racing record.

In her tenure, Radcliffe crews have won national championships in 1987 and 2003. In 2003, Radcliffe not only won the Varsity 8+ event, but took the Team Trophy home as well. In 2003 she was named the CRCA Coach of the Year. Her crews finished third in the 1V at the 2005 NCAA Championships, and seventh at the 2008 NCAAs. Liz’s crews won the Women’s Henley Regatta in 1989 after an undefeated season in the U.S., and she has returned to that regatta and the Royal Henley Regatta twice since, in 2003 and 2007. She has won numerous Eastern Sprints medals in the 1V8+, 2V8+, and Varsity 4+ events.

In addition, under Liz O’s guidance, 11 athletes have competed on U.S. World Championship and Olympic Teams. Spanning from 1988 in Seoul, S. Korea to 2008 in Beijing, China, there has been a Radcliffe alumnae in every single Olympic Games.

Most recently in Beijing, Caryn Davies ’05 stroked the gold-medal winning US Women’s 8+, and Michelle Guerette ’02 finished with the silver medal in the incredibly competitive Women’s 1x event. Radcliffe has also seen athletes compete on the U23 National Team level; in 2008 Laura Lea Larson-Strecker ‘08 finished with a gold medal in the U.S. U23 Women’s 8+, and Esther Lofgren ’09 has won two gold medals for the U23 team, the W8+ in 2006 and the W4x in 2007. Lofgren also won a bronze medal in the Senior World Championship 4+ in 2006 and silver in the World Championships in 2008.

A 1976 graduate of the University of New Hampshire, Liz has a wealth of international rowing experience herself. A member of the 1976 and 1980 Olympic Teams, she also raced for the U.S. at six World Championships, medaling in three. Her coaching career includes the 1988 Olympic Team as well as seven World Championship teams from 1985 through 1996.

Prior to coming to Harvard, Liz coached at her alma mater and was the head coach of girl's crew at the Brooks School in North Andover, MA. In 1994, she was inducted into the UNH Hall of Fame. Throughout her tenure, Liz has coached highly-successful crews as well as provided a program where women can train for individual peak performances while remaining dedicated to the ultimate goal of a winning team.

- To the Radcliffe Heavyweight page.

Heather Cartwright began coaching the Radcliffe lightweights in the 2008-2009 academic year. She brings 15 years of coaching experience to the position, on the high school, club, collegiate, provincial, and national-team levels.

Most recently, Heather served four years as the varsity assistant coach at Boston University. She was primarily responsible for coaching the second varsity eight and varsity fours, along with coordinating recruiting efforts. In 2006, her varsity A four finished the season with a silver-medal finish at Eastern Sprints, BU’s first Sprints medal in 13 years. The Terriers earned an invitation to compete at the NCAA Championships that season. Previously, Heather spent the 2003-2004 season as an assistant coach at Princeton University, guiding the second varsity eight to a bronze medal at the Eastern Sprints and the third varsity four to an 11th-place finish at the NCAA Championships.

Heather, a Canadian, is an NCCP Certified Level 4 coach. She graduated from the National Coaching Institute, Ontario in 2004 with a diploma in high-performance coaching. She is a past chair of the Women in Rowing Committee for Rowing Canada. In summer 2006, she was part of the coaching team for the USRowing U23 Boston Development Camp. She was the assistant coach for the U23 Canadian Women’s National Rowing Team the following summer.

Heather began rowing at Branksome Hall, Toronto, in 1985. She continued at the University of Western Ontario under coach Al Morrow, the women’s coach of the Canadian National Rowing Team. As a rower, she won gold medals at the Royal Canadian Henley Regatta, the Canadian National Championships, the Ontario University Championships and the Dad Vail Regatta. An aspiring elite athlete, her rowing career was ended abruptly in her junior year due to a rare genetic heart condition. At the encouragement of her coach, Heather became coach of the varsity lightweight women’s program while still at university. She led the team in her senior year to gold medals at the Ontario University Championships and the Dad Vail Regatta.

Upon graduation from Western in 1993 with a degree in English literature, she attended film school and began a 10-year career in the internet and communications industries, co-owning a company prior to its sale in 2002. In addition to college and national team level coaching, Heather has volunteer-coached at the high school, club, and provincial levels since 1991. She coached women’s crews to gold-medal finishes at the Royal Canadian Henley Regatta, U.S. Nationals, Ontario Championships, Head of the Charles Regatta and Canada Cup. In 1992 she was the manager for the Canadian National Team at the World Rowing Championships, and in 1998 she served as an apprentice coach to the Canadian National Team.

- To the Radcliffe Lightweight page.

Cory Bosworth is the Assistant Varsity Heavyweight Coach and Heavyweight Recruiting Coordinator.  Cory was a Chancellor's Scholar at the University of California, Berkeley; she graduated in 1999 with a degree in English.  While at Cal she walked on to the women's rowing team as a freshman and competed for four years, her senior year serving as co-captain, helping the squad to their first team appearance at NCAAs and a bronze medal in the 1V.  In 1999 she was also the recipient of the Anna Espenschade Award, given to the top female athlete at Cal best exemplifying the Golden Bear Spirit.  During her collegiate summers, Cory competed with the University of Victoria and GBRA and had much success at the Canadian Royal Henley Regatta.  After graduation, Cory moved east, working as a coaching assistant here at Radcliffe for two years, in that time leading the Varsity 4+ in '01 to an undefeated dual season.  She moved back west for one year, received her MA in Education from Cal, and happily returned to Radcliffe Crew to take the reins of the novice program in 2002.  In her first year as the Assistant Varsity Coach, Radcliffe won the NCAA National Championship.  She has lead her novice crews to multiple top-three finishes in the both the Head of the Charles Regatta and the Foot of the Charles Regatta, as well as grand final showings at the Eastern Sprints Regatta.  She has been the head coach of the USRowing U23 Boston Development Camp for two summers (2008 and 2006), and helped take the team to the Women’s and Royal Henley Regattas in 2007.  Cory was named Regional Assistant Coach of the Year in 2006.

Kate Woll came to Radcliffe Crew in the fall of 2005 as a Coaching Assistant for the heavyweight squad. In her time at Radcliffe, Kate has led the varsity fours to great success. In 2007 the Varsity A 4+ finished with a silver medal and the Varsity B 4+ with a gold medal at the Eastern Sprints; and in 2008 the Varsity A 4+ finished with a bronze medal at the Eastern Sprints. Kate came from Dartmouth College, where she served as the women's coaching assistant. Prior to that, Kate was the novice coach of the UMass Amhearst women's rowing team, where she helped take the team to the inaugural NCAA Regatta in 1997; and the assistant varsity coach at the University of New Hampshire. Kate graduated from George Washington University in 1995 with a BA in International Affairs. Kate was a four year rower while at GW. In addition to her coaching, Kate has worked extensively in education; she holds an M.Ed from the Antioch of New England Graduate School.

Carrie Morelock ’07 arrived in the fall of 2008 to begin her collegiate coaching career as a Coaching Assistant for the lightweight squad. Carrie walked on to the rowing team in her freshman year at Harvard after running track and playing high-school basketball in her hometown of Poplar Grove, IL. She was a member of the varsity eight that finished third in the NCAA Championships her sophomore year, and served as co-captain her senior year. In summer 2006 she rowed at the U23 USRowing Development Camp in Madison, WI. While at Harvard, Carrie worked in the athletic communications office and served as a student representative to the NCAA Student-Athlete Advisory Committee. Carrie coached the Rockland YMCA Rowing Programs in the summers of 2005 and 2007.