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Guenter Beutter
(Technical Director) was educated at Giessen University, majoring
in sports science and psychology. He published research in lactic
acid production, oxygen uptake and the use of magnesium supplements
among high performance athletes.He began rowing at 16 for the Rudergesellschaft
Wetzlar in Germany where many world champion and Olympic athletes
trained. He competed with this club for 4 years in every type of
boat at the German championships. From 1984-1997 he coached Wetzlar’s
intermediate and elite rowers, earning many medals during his tenure,
and gaining recognition as one of the most successful young club
coaches in Germany.
In 1988 he was recruited for the German
National Team. From 1989 – 1997 he coached both men and women
in sculling and sweep boats, taking his athletes to five world championships
and earning four gold and one silver medal. In 1997, he was appointed
head coach of the women’s lightweight Quadruple Scull which
medaled at all the important regattas in Europe and earned a gold
medal at the world championships that year.
In addition to coaching, his responsibilities
for the national team included athlete selection, preparation camps,
cross training at high altitude, nutrition advice, lactic acid testing,
and calculating and monitoring work-out plans (one of the few coaches
in the world with this expertise). During his tenure, he worked
with Professor Uli Hartmann, an internationally renowned sports
physiologist who consults for high-performance athletes and monitors
the German Olympic teams in all sports. Mr Beutter continues his
association with Dr. Hartmann who lectures at GMS camps in Europe.
Mr. Beutter came to the U.S. in 1998 where
he began as technical director of coaching and head sculling coach
at Saugatuck Rowing Club in Westport, CT. He founded GMS Rowing Center in 2004. His master rowers have
competed and medalled at US Masters Nationals and Masters World
Championships. His junior rowers have competed and medalled at the
U.S. Nationals and Canadian Henley regattas. They have been recruited
by, and rowed for Harvard, Yale, Brown, Dartmouth, University of
Pennsylvania, Cornell, Georgetown and many other universities.
Mr. Beutter is also a consultant for various
other rowing clubs including Henley Rowing Club in England, Piermont
(NY), Willamette (OR), elite masters at Princeton and Yale Universities
and other master rowers around the world. He maintains his associations
in Germany as a technical advisor for the rowing website Rudern1.de
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Victoria Burke
recently graduated from the University of Virginia with a B.A. in
Art History and a minor in Italian. She learned to Row at Saugatuck
Rowing Club and has spent the past four summers rowing at GMS with
the Elite Program, medaling at several National Regattas.
Victoria has been to two NCAA championships
with the University of Virginia, finishing second place in the 1st
Varsity 8 this past June. Additionally, Victoria qualified for Under
23 Worlds this past summer in the Lightweight Women’s Quad
winning a silver medal. It was one of 3 medals won by the U.S. U23
National Team.
Victoria is attending University of Virginia and will return to coach the juniors and master programs in the summer. She will be available to take private lessons from the beginning of June. |
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Richard Klein,
grew up in Westport, CT rowing at Saugatuck Rowing Club under the supervision of James Mangan and Guenter Beutter. From there Richard went on to Hobart and William Smith Colleges were he was a 4 year varsity athlete, rookie of the year, two time MVP, and first ever silver medalist in the Men’s Straight four at the IRA National Championships. He also competed for the USRowing U-23 National team in 2006 and 2007, earning a Silver medal in 2006, missing out on the gold by .03 of a second.
Post college, Richard moved to Switzerland and traveled around competing in the European fall racing circuit.
In 2009, Richard went back to Saugatuck Rowing Club, and became head coach for the Junior Girls. During 2009-2010, Saugatuck Junior Girls saw their most successful season ever, qualifying 7 boats to the Youth Invitation Championships (more seats than could be filled.) Four out of the five boats that attended made the Grand Final. The notable accomplishment of qualifying 2 girls quads for the A-final, finishing 2nd and 4th place, with both boats breaking 7 minutes. Making Saugatuck the first program to ever qualify two girls quads into the A-Final.
Following the championships, Richard went on to coach the Junior Girls Sculling National Team in 2010 with long time mentor, Guenter Beutter. Once again, Guenter and Richard led the Girls sculling team to the best overall finish ever, with a 6th place finish in the Junior Girls quad.
Richard is currently coaching at GMS Rowing center, and continues to train for the USRowing Senior National Team.
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Linda Leaden (Development
Coach) attended Western Connecticut State University majoring in science.
She has been working with children for over 20 years in many different
capacities. She is a certified personal
trainer and brings this knowledge to assist her rowers in developing
their fitness. Linda is the head of our cadet/learn to row program
at GMS. She has been coaching and has been an administrative assistant
for GMS for 4 years. Linda starting rowing at GMS when the club
came to New Milford, and fell in love with the sport. Coaching and
instructing people on their well being and fitness is her true passion.
She plans to continue her education in the coaching field. Linda
currently coaches our adult learn to row and novice program, middle
school and high school learn to row and novice program, and private
lessons. |
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Kathleen L’Hommedieu,
educated at Norwalk Community College and University of Connecticut,
Kathy has been involved in coaching and rowing for the past seven
years. She assisted the former Romanian National Team coach in running
the junior program at the Saugatuck Rowing Association in Westport
CT. Kathy has also worked closely with James Mangan, founder of the
Saugatuck Rowing Association. |
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Seth Weil,
began rowing at the University of California, Davis and continued to row there for the next four years while completing his B.S. in Psychology, Aeronautical Engineering and Mechanical Engineering. During this time he was a member of the highly successful UC Davis Men’s Crew medaling at WIRA (gold), ACRA (silver). At Penn AC he was a member of the successful 2009 crew winning gold in numerous events at US Rowing Club Nationals. Since 2010 he has been exclusively rowing the single again medaling at the US Rowing Club Nationals. He is starting his seventh season of being involved in the sport and is currently training with the High Performance Sculling group at GMS Rowing Center. |
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