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Meet Our Staff
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Savannah Wilson
Executive Director
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!
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.
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.
Emory Ibarra
Assistant Coach & Operations Assistant
Emory first discovered rowing at a learn-to-row day in middle school, and started their rowing career at Manchester Central High School in New Hampshire in 2009. As part of a sweep program they were seated in the powerhouse section of their 4+ and 8+. As they progressed the team opened up to allow JV and Varsity to participate in Amoskeag Rowing Club summer program where they learned to scull under Charmie Curran. It was then that they fell in love with small boats. The following summer they had the chance and were accepted as a summer intern at Craftsbury Sculling Center in Vermont. Emory continued racing in college, competing in the men's double.
For Emory, coaching is about so much more than boat lineups and training plans; it's about helping young athletes build confidence, resilience, and genuine love for the sport. Having found structure, balance, and purpose in rowing - a sport that rewards thought, planning, and intelligence as much as strength - Emory is committed to pursuing coaching as a coreer and to creating a space where athletes feel empowered, supported, and capable of reaching their goals.
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.