Jen Myers Associate Head Coach 12th Season (Kansas ‘98) Jennifer Myers begins her 12th year as assistant to head coach Rob Catloth and fourth year as associate head coach. Myers heads up the role of recruiting walk-ons from campus and teaching and developing first-year rowers. She also assists with team travel and day-to-day team administration. Myers begins her eighth season coaching the Novice program in 2011. She has also coached the Varsity Four at KU. During Myers’ career at Kansas, her novice programs have had first place finishes at the SouthCentral Regionals, the Big 12 Invitational and the Knecht Cup regatta. In the spring of 2011, the First Novice Eight placed second at the Conference USA and Big 12 Championship. Throughout the spring the Novice Eight remained undefeated versus Kansas State. At the Knecht Cup in the fall season, the First Novice Eight took home a silver medal, while the Second Novice Eight won gold. In 2008, the Novice Eight won at both the Big 12 Inviatational and the SIRA regatta. In the spring of 2004, Myers was nominated for Assistant Coach of the Year by the Collegiate Rowing Coaches Association.
Myers’ Coaching Highlights 2010 2008 2007 2005 2004
Novice Eight places second at Conference USA and Big 12 Championship Novice Eight wins Big 12 Invitational and SIRA regatta Novice Eight wins Knecht Cup Novice Eight places second Knecht Cup Novice Eight wins South-Central Regionals Nominated for Assistant Coach of the Year by the Collegiate Rowing Coaches Association
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Coach Myers At-A-Glance Hometown.......................Lawrence, Kan. High School.........................Lawrence HS Education.................................Kansas ‘98 Coaching Experience..................12 years Rowing Experience....Kansas 1996-1998
As a student-athlete at Kansas, Myers had a successful collegiate rowing career. Myers was a three-year letterwinner from 1996-1998, after lettering her freshman year at the University of Wyoming in swimming. During her senior year she was voted team captain and was named Outstanding Oarswoman. A Lawrence, Kan., native, Myers graduated from KU in the fall of 1998 with a bachelor’s degree in exercise science. She interned with the program that fall and became an assistant coach the following season. Myers and her husband, James, live in Lawrence with their sons Koen (4) and Hudsen (2).