Brown University Women's Rowing

Collins enters her second season with the Bears in 2025-26 after joining the Brown women’s crew coaching staff before the start of the 2024-25 season. Collins comes to College Hill after a very successful collegiate career at the University of Michigan where she led the Wolverines to two Big Ten Championships in 2019 and 2021 in the 1V8+. In addition, Grace contributed to a third place team and boat finish at the NCAA’s in 2019 and fourth place team and boat finish in 2021. Collins was selected for U23 National Team training in 2020. She was named an All Big Ten Athlete First Team 2022, and Second Team member in 2021. Collins was also named to the All American 2nd Team in 2022 and Pocock All America Nominee in 2020. Grace received her Bachelor of Science degree in Applied Exercise Science, along with a business minor from the Ross School of Business in 2022. She was the President of Athletes for Community Transformation, was a leadership development ambassador, and a Mott Children’s Hospital volunteer during her time outside of the boat.

Hank enters his second season with the Bears in 2025-26 after joining the coaching staff before the start of the 2024-25 season. He started his coaching career in 2009 at Franklin & Marshall College as the top assistant coach to the men’s and women’s crew teams. He helped guide over 60 athletes between the two programs and played an integral role in managing the recruiting efforts for both teams. In 2011, he moved to Washington, D.C. to become the head coach for the lightweight women’s team at Georgetown University. From 2012 to 2015, Gobbo-Zimmerman assumed the roles of assistant coach and recruiting coordinator for the lightweight women’s team at Princeton University. While with the Tigers, Hank managed novice walk-on efforts in the fall, recruited the classes of 2017, 2018, and 2019, and coached the Varsity 4+ to a Bronze medal at the IRA National Championships 2015. Gobbo-Zimmerman's longest tenured coaching job would then come from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2015. AT MIT, Hank was named an assistant coach and recruiting coordinator for the openweight women’s team. There, he created strength training programs, and managed all recruiting efforts. He also created the team training plan that led to the best league finish in program history, and helped lead the team to gold medals for 1v8 and 2v8 at the New England Championships in 2024. Before starting his career as a rowing coach, Hank attended Ithaca College and received his Bachelor of Arts degree in 200

Ned Foster, who came to Brown after working for Resolute Racing Shells from 2013-18, enters his eighth season as the head rigger for the Brown University cre...

Tessa Gobbo-Zimmerman '13 joined the Brown Women's Rowing Staff as an assistant coach in 2021 and enters her second season as the Loyalty Chair for Women's C...