ASSISTANT COACH CARRIE CALLEN
Carrie Callen At-A-Glance
Hometown...........................................................................................Garden City, Kan. High School............................................................................................ Garden City HS College............................................................................................................Kansas ‘06 Rowing Experience.............................................................................Kansas 2002-04 Coaching Experience...........................................................................................7 years Iowa Assistant Coach 2006-11 Iowa Graduate Assistant 2011-12 Kansas Assistant Coach 2012-present Carrie Callen, a Kansas graduate who helped coach the University of Iowa into the top20, was named an assistant coach for the KU women’s rowing team on June 29, 2012. The former Jayhawk, Callen, comes from the University of Iowa where she served as the graduate assistant and varsity assistant coach for the Hawkeyes rowing team from Aug. 2006 to June 2012. She spent the first five years as a varsity assistant coach in which she assisted with recruiting, budgeting and coaching 15-20 second tier athletes to compete regionally and in the top 25 nationally. Those accomplishments made Callen an Assistant Coach of the Year nominee for the 2011-12 season at Iowa. In 2011-12, her last year with the Hawkeyes, Callen was the graduate assistant as she decided to pursue a Master of Business Administration. She hopes to graduate in the summer of 2013. A 2006 graduate from KU with a degree in business administration, Callen was a member of the Jayhawk rowing team from 2002-04 and earned Jayhawk Scholar Student-Athlete honors during her career. She then spent two years (2004-06) as a team manager for the KU rowing team. Fresh out of college, Callen spent the summer of 2006 at the Kansas City Rowing Club where she coached “Learn-to-Row” Clinics and junior and high school camps. The Garden City, Kan. native, also spent the summer of 2010 coaching at the US Rowing Freshman Camp. Callen is the recruiting coordinator for the Jayhawks and coaches the varsity rowers with head coach Rob Catloth.
GRADUATE ASSISTANT COACH LEANNA KEMP Kemp’s duties as a graduate assistant include recruiting correspondence, teaching the incoming novice the sport of rowing and general administrative duties. A KU rower from 2002-05, Kemp earned the “Essence of a Jayhawk” Award during her junior year. She was also named a Jayhawk Scholar during her sophomore and junior years.
LeAnna Kemp At-A-Glance
Kemp graduated in 2005 from KU with a degree in journalism. After graduating, Hometown..........................................Kansas City, Mo. Kemp spent four years in Jacksonville, Fla., working on the Young Life staff, a nonprofit Christian ministry. She also spent time as a rowing volunteer assistant at the High School................................... Park Hill South HS Episcopal School of Jacksonville.
College......................................................... Kansas ‘05 Rowing Experience.......................... Kansas 2002-05 Kemp is currently working on her Master’s degree in education with a concentration Coaching Experience 2 years. in physical education. Kansas Volunteer Assistant 2010-11 Kansas Graduate Assistant 2011-present
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