Mark joined the OUBC in July 2024. Mark’s career includes roles at Cambridge University Boat Club from 2001-2005 and subsequently, chief coach of Queen’s University Belfast for men and women. He followed his time in Northern Ireland with a similar role for Mercantile Rowing Club in Australia. He then moved to Canberra as a senior coach for Rowing Australia where he worked across both the lightweight and women’s programmes, including as coach of the Australian Women’s Eight at the Olympic Games in Rio. Mark's most recent role is the Coach of the Eight at Eton College and one of the coaching team for the GB U23 programme.

Mark joins the OUBC from Imperial College where he was Boat House Manager for over 6 years. Mark knows the Tideway inside-out as an experienced rower, coach and club manager. He brings a wealth of professional experience within rowing and industry that will strength our team and bring marginal gains across the Club. The OUBC has already had the pleasure of working with Mark at Imperial and as the UK Empacher rep - We are delighted that he has joined our coaching team full-time.

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Felicity is a Sport and Exercise Medicine Registrar working in Oxford and will be joining the support team for OUBC this year. As an alumni of the university, Felicity is a Dark Blue at heart and she’s incredibly excited to work with the Boat Race crews to aid performance.

Gareth joined OUBC as the performance nutritionist working alongside the boat club and the wider Blues Performance Scheme at Oxford University. Having graduated with an MSc in Human Performance and with a post graduate IOC diploma in Sports Nutrition, Gareth has combined a 15-year career in commercial sports nutrition with being a performance nutrition practitioner.

As an SENR registered nutritionist, Gareth has worked across a number of team and individual sports but more recently leading the support for GB Rowing in both Olympic and Paralympic squads. His passion is delivering periodised and personalised nutritional strategies that focus on energy requirements and deliver performance.

Allan joined OUBC as Women's Head Coach in December 2023 from his role as Head of Rowing at Reading Blue Coat school. Before this he was Women’s Head Coach at Oxford Brookes University from 2012 to 2018 where during this time the programme was made a GB High Performance Centre for Women’s Rowing and Allan coached crews to multiple domestic and national titles. In 2016 Allan coached the GB Women’s Four to a bronze medal at the FISU World University Championships, the U23 Lightweight Women’s Quad to fifth place at the 2017 U23 World Championships and coached the GB Women’s Eight to a fourth place finish at the 2018 U23 World Championships.

James has been the Women's Assistant Coach since 2018. After rowing at Oxford Brookes University, James’ rowing and coaching careers have led him to success across a number of national and international events. Beginning his coaching career in Oxford, he moved on to work in Sydney, with eleven of the twelve crews he helped to support winning medals, including five golds, at major national events.

Zoe joins the OUBC team as Assistant Coach and will be working across our open, lightweight and development crews for both the men's and women's programmes. Zoe is a former high performance athlete, having rowed at Oxford Brookes University BC. Zoe was previously coaching at Reading Blue Coat School and within the GB Junior coaching system.

The OUBC are very excited that Zoe has joined our coaching team as she brings credibility, passion and an outstanding work ethic.

Catherine is a Gold Accredited Sports Physiotherapist with the Association of Chartered Physiotherapists in Sports and Exercise Medicine, with over 20 years' experience. She was the Lead TASS Physiotherapist for Oxford, looking after a variety of younger athletes in Olympic sports including GB Under 23 and Catherine worked as a physiotherapist at the London 2012 Olympics and Paralympics, the 2022 Commonwealth Games and Team GB HQ at the World Winter Student Games. Since 2015, Catherine has worked for the AELTC covering the Wimbledon Championships each year. After four years with OUWBC from 2013-2016, we are delighted that Catherine has returned to OUBC in 2023 to work with the women athletes again.

Tiahan has been a strength and conditioning coach for over 15 years, graduating with an MSc in 2010. He has led the physical preparation of all Blues Performance teams and elite athletes at Oxford University since 2020.

Prior to his time at Oxford he led programmes within universities, for semi-professional and professional club environments, including premier league football clubs working with academy prospects to international athletes. Being a member of OUBC is a challenge like no other, he particularly enjoys building a successful environment for our high performing student-athletes to thrive both on the water and academically.

Renee is a leading Sports dietitian, specialising in Eating Disorders, REDs, The Female Athlete, Athlete health and performance. She stands as a preeminent Sports Dietitian and Eating Disorder Specialist, boasting an extensive career of over two decades in clinical and performance nutrition. We are delighted that Renee will be assisting the OUBC this year.