Coaches

Program Director & Varsity Women's Coach, Travis Hall

Travis hails from the small town of King, North Carolina and first began his rowing career as a novice at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. During his four years as an oarsman for the Carolina Crew, Travis spent time in both heavyweight and lightweight boats, competing at the Head of the Charles regatta multiple times, along with strong finishes at the SIRA championships and the Dad Vail Regatta.

After graduating with a degree from the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at UNC (and a minor in Coaching Education), Travis decided that his rowing days couldn't be over so soon, and began pursuing a career in coaching. Over the past year, Travis was the Men's Novice Coach at Penn State, leading his crew to strong finishes at the Neuwiler Plate, Murphy Cup and Dad Vail regattas and medals at the West Virginia Governor's Cup regatta, as well as contributing to the points championship and the Governor's Cup heading to State College.

In his spare time, Travis enjoys sculling, cycling and watching Tar Heel sports. Over the past summer, he helped lead a cross-country cycling trip with the organization Bike & Build after completing the trek with the same organization in 2008. Over the past three years, he has cycled through 18 states and totaled around 10,000 miles in the saddle.

Travis can be reached at travisahall@gmail.com

Varsity Men's Coach, Nathan Walker

Nathan is originally from the Chicago area and rowed for Purdue University, where he was voted the men's team's Most Valuable Oarsman twice, and where he stroked the men’s V8 to a then program best 2^nd place finish his senior year at the Dad Vail Regatta. After graduating in 2005 with a degree in English Secondary Education, Nathan stuck around West Lafayette to become the novice men's crew coach, leading his crews to medals at both SIRAs and Dad Vails in what would become the strongest men's rowing class Purdue has ever had. His class would go on to win two golds and a silver medal in the V8 at Vails their following three years on the varsity squad.

After his year spent coaching Purdue’s novice men, Nathan moved to Washington, D.C. where he where he coached masters women and recreational sweep rowers at Alexandria Community Rowing. Nathan enjoyed the change of focus and pace with the masters rowers, and learned to appreciate the finer points of dodging scullers, nun bouys, and barges on the Potomac at o-dark-thirty while leading his ACR crews to medals at regattas both far and wide. Then during the fall of 2007 while continuing to coach at ACR, Nathan became the Head Coach of Fairfax High School, growing and leading the program to many victories. At the completion of the season, one of his Fairfax boats was even voted All Met by the Washington Post.

Nathan became the Head Coach of William and Mary Rowing in the fall of 2008 and has since led William and Mary Rowing to its first Head of the Charles medal and second Dad Vail medal. He also started the William and Mary Rowing High School summer camp, and spearheaded the building of William and Mary's first Boathouse. The 2011-2012 season will be his last at William and Mary, and he hopes to continue W&M's tremendous growth by making for a smooth transition to new leadership. He lives in Williamsburg with his Dr. Wife and their two cute, often misbehaving dogs, and enjoys sculling, biking, and reading in his spare time.

Coach Nathan Walker can be reached at: williamandmaryrowing@yahoo.com

Novice Women's Coach, Kathleen Murphy

Kathleen is orginally from northern Virginia but she began her rowing career in Tampa, Florida before making the migration north and rowing for two more years at Bishop O’Connell High School. During her high school years she also rowed for a club program out of Washington, D.C. With that team she would stroke a Head of the Charles top finisher, be an USRowing National Champion twice, and place third at the Royal Canadian Henley.

In college Kathleen rowed three years with the William and Mary Rowing Team. The highlight of her freshmen year was a petit finals win at the Southern Intercollegiate Rowing Association regatta with the Novice 8+. Her sophomore and junior years were marked with wins up and down the East coast

with the Varsity Women’s Team. Previously she was the Secretary and Vice President of Individual Fundraising as a member of the executive board of the club. Heading into her senior year at the College Kathleen decided to transition to coach of the Novice Women’s team. She has previous experience

teaching novice rowers from her high school days and is excited to lead the Novice Women’s team to success this season.

Outside of rowing Kathleen spends a lot of time in the library studying international relations and Middle Eastern studies. She is also a teaching assistant for the Modern Languages Department and a dedicated runner in her free time.

Coach Kathleen Murphy can be reached at: kpmurphy@email.wm.edu

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