E-mail Coach Gehman (hsg8@cornell.edu)
The Staley Head Coach of Women’s Rowing
After taking over the program during the spring of 2007, Gehman’s varsity boats showed steady improvement throughout the season in both times and results.
Gehman served as the Big Red women’s novice rowing coach for two and a half seasons after being hired in 2004. In her two seasons with the Big Red, the novice women combined for an 11-6 record.
Gehman was the voice of the Olympic 4X in Athens, serving as crew leader in training sessions and during races. Her fifth-place finish at the 2004 Games mirrored her performance in the quad at the 2000 Olympics in Sydney.
A two-time Olympian, Gehman has also raced on four U.S. national teams in the women’s quad, earning a bronze medal in 2001. A competitor at numerous World Cup stops with the U.S. team, Gehman and her crewmates have captured four bronze medals at four international regattas since 1999, and her quad earned the gold medal at the 2003 Munich World Cup. In competitions at the national level, Gehman won the double sculls at the 2001 and 2002 Head of the Charles regattas and finished second in 2003.
Gehman earned coaching experience in the competitive EAWRC while serving as the assistant coach at Georgetown from 2000-03, and her first novice boat captured the Big East title in 2001. Prior to her time in the nation’s capital, Gehman was the head men’s and women’s rowing coach at Lewis and Clark College in Portland, Ore., from 1996-98, overseeing 60 student-athletes.
A native of Wolfeboro, N.H., Gehman graduated from Colby College in 1993 with a bachelor’s degree in sociology. She was a four-year member of the Mules’ club rowing team, as the sport was elevated to varsity status the season following her graduation.
Gehman is an exceptional all-around athlete whose national team career and active lifestyle make her a role model for Cornell’s undergraduates. She still logs many miles in her single and on the ergometer, but she has diversified her training by competing in The Birkebeiner, a 51km cross country ski marathon held in Hayward, Wis., in February. In warm weather she enjoys swimming across Cayuga Lake, and she successfully completed the challenging Tupper Lake Tinman Triathlon in the summer of 2006.
Hilary Gehman, a six-time member of the U.S. national rowing team and a two-time Olympian who served as the interim head coach of the Cornell women’s crew in 2006-07, was named the Staley Head Coach of Women’s Rowing in July 2007.
