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Meet Our Staff
Sabrina Paulsen
Executive Director
Sabrina grew up in Everett, Washington where she rowed for Everett Rowing Association. She attended Old Dominion University where she rowed on the Division I Women’s Rowing team. While completing her Masters Degree at George Mason University, Sabrina served as the Assistant Coach for the Division I Women's Rowing Team. Upon graduating from GMU, Sabrina continued to coach at B-CC during the teams fall and winter. Sabrina relocated and served as Head Coach at Tacoma Rowing where she lead the team to the program’s first Regional Youth Championship title in the Mens Novice 2x event. Sabrina named Pacific Region Staff of the Year by CRCA at Pacific Lutheran University and helped the Women's Rowing Team return to NCAAs.
When she is not working at RRC, Sabrina can be found working out at the gym. She enjoys CrossFit, running, and spending time with her daughter Noelle.
Cecilia Krause
Head Coach & Programs Director
Cecilia started her rowing career as a coxswain for Glastonbury High School in 2013, and fell even more in love with the sport during her time at Seattle Pacific University. Her favorite memories of rowing in college are finishing first at both WIRA Championships and Opening Day regatta in back to back weekends in 2019. After college, she joined the Lake Washington Rowing Club's competitive team, where she is currently serving as one of the team captains. She hopped in the coaches' launch for the first time in March of 2022 as an Assistant Coach for the NSD High School programs. She worked as the Boathouse and Equipment Manager at the Kenmore Community Boathouse from March 2023 - August 2024, and spent the summer of 2024 as Kenmore Community Rowing Club's youth programming manager, developing and overseeing the youth summer rowing camps.
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She has a passion for creating a safe and inclusive environment for young people to try out the sport she fell in love with. When she's not coaching, fixing a boat, or coxing, Cecilia can be found adding to her ever growing collection of houseplants and dad jokes.
Savannah Wilson
Youth Assistant Coach and Operations Assistant
Savannah grew up in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania where she competitively rowed for Three Rivers Junior Rowing. Continuing her love for the sport, Savannah briefly rowed for Florida Institute of Technology during the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic. With so many regulations on social gatherings, Savannah threw herself into her academics, receiving both her Bachelors and Masters from Florida Tech in Applied Behavior Analysis and Organizational Behavior Management.
During her academic career, Savannah became the assistant performance coach for the Rocket League esports team where she focused on sustainable behavior change through systematic changes and a reinforcement-based coaching style.
Beyond her love for rowing, Savannah is an avid reader well on her way to beating her goal of 100 books completed in this calendar year. Savannah is also currently in the process of finishing her thesis manuscript titled "The Effects of Vibrotactile Feedback on the Rowing Stroke." Feel free to ask her about her favorite book or her thesis...if you have an extra hour to spare!
Sarah Tribble
Head Middle School Coach
Sarah grew up far from water in the desert of Colorado. At Western Washington University, she was introduced to the joy of water sports and has never looked back! During Sarah's tenure, the Vikings won two consecutive NCAA Div II National Championships.
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As a master, she has rowed in Georgia, Iowa, Minnesota and Maryland before moving back to Seattle in 2015. Hearing the siren call of the coaches launch, Sarah has coached all ages from 12 to 80 at several clubs around Puget Sound, including Pocock Rowing Center, Kenmore Rowing and Sammamish Rowing Association.
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In addition to coaching, Sarah has a passion for environmental education and is the Operations Manager for Friends of Lake Sammamish State Park in Issaquah. If you let her, she can tell you all about the unique ecosystems and geology of our Lake Washington home, just be warned- she can talk for a long time and has a loud voice!
Kent McCleary
Volunteer Masters Sculling Coach
Kent McCleary rowed for Washington State Men's Crew, All-PAC-10 and raced in Istanbul, Turkey. Kent rowed and taught sculling at Carillon Point [Kirkland] Rowing Club, the Wenatchee Row and Paddle Club and the Twin Falls [Idaho] Solo Bocce Ball, Tiddlywinks and Sculling Club. He returned to sculling on Lake Washington in 2002 and in 2006 helped found Renton Rowing and to start Erg Ed. Kent coaches masters scullers and teaches safety at RRC. Kent is also the Chair of RRC's Board of Directors and leads the Safety Committee. He teaches English as a Second Language at Lindbergh High School in Renton and acts as the staff sponsor of the Lindbergh High School Rowing Club.
Logan Peterson
Assistant Youth Coach
Logan (he/him/his) is an alumni of the Renton Rowing Center’s junior team where he learned to row in 2015 and continued rowing until he graduated high school in 2018. He continued rowing in college at Marietta College (Marietta, Ohio) until the pandemic brought him back to Washington. He credits Renton Rowing Center with instilling him not only with a love for the sport of rowing itself, but also with a love for the boathouse community and the team that Renton has continued to foster throughout the years. He is thrilled to be back at Renton, this time as a member of their coaching staff, to continue fostering this same strong community and love of the sport that Renton was able to instill in him. As a member of both the BIPOC and LGBTQ+ communities, he truly believes that everyone has a place in rowing and that Renton can be that place for anyone who wants to join our community. When he’s not at the boathouse, you can typically find him walking his dogs on the Cedar River trail or staking out local coffee shops and small bookstores throughout the sound.