Meet The Coaches
Tom Laurich
Tom Laurich joined SUBC in 2019, Tom previously coached numerous high performance athletes at a national level and at the Victorian Institute of Sport.
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Tom was also a very successful athlete competing for Australia at Juniors, Under 23's, and senior A level including the Athens and Beijing Olympic games.
Alfie Young
Alfie joined SUBC in September 2016 from Mosman Rowing Club where he excelled in the development of women rowers.
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Alfie is has excelled in his position at the club taking numerous crews to world championship events.
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At the 2017 Rower of the Year Awards, Alfie was awarded Pathway Coach of the Year from Rowing Australia.
Pete Wawn
Pete is an experienced rowing coach having coached at numerous school programs with success across a variety of levels.
Alan Bennett
Alan Bennett (AB) is a passionate coach who has previously coaches at SUBC from 2005-2010. AB brings a wealth of knowledge in high performance and development rowing from his previous positions.
Phil Titterton
Phill has coached SU women rowers since 1967. As a keen masters rower himself, he helped set up the SU women’s masters squad in 1995, and he has coached that squad ever since.
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Phill has earned a blue from SUBC (1966) for his rowing, and a gold from SUWRC (2002), Life Membership from SUBC (2018) and an OAM (2020) for his long term and wide-ranging contributions to rowing as a sport.