STEVE TUCKER didn't take a stroke until he was twenty-one years old. Steve's first strokes were taken at his MIT fraternity house as part of an erg challenge posed by his  fraternity brother who was a member of the MIT Crew. The next day, at the urging of his fraternity brothers, who were impressed with  his fitness, he joined the MIT Lightweight Crew.

Upon graduating MIT in 1991, Steve  joined Riverside Boat Club and raced with their sweep development program. After failing to receive an invitation to the national team  sweep selection camp in 1993, he began sculling.  In the late fall of 1994 he moved from Boston to the national team sculling center in Augusta, Georgia. Finally, after second place finishes at selection trials two years in a row,  he won a spot on his first national team as the lightweight single sculler and placed fourth at the 1997 World Championships.

In 1998 he began rowing the lightweight double with Greg Ruckman. After a disappointing ninth-place finish at the World Championship, Greg decided to seek another partner,  and Steve began rowing with Conal Groom. Conal and Steve qualified the  United States'  lightweight double entry for the Olympic Games  by finishing sixth at the 1999 World Championship, and represented the United States at the 2000 Olympic Games,  finishing eleventh.

Steve continued competing internationally through 2004, winning the bronze medal at the 2002 World Championship in the lightweight single and racing at the 2004 Olympic Games with his original double partner, Greg Ruckman.

BILL MANNING is the freshman heavyweight coach at Harvard.

Manning has directed the freshmen to five EARC Sprints titles (1999, 2001, 2002, 2004 and 2008). The second freshman have won just as often.  The Harvard freshman have medaled at the Eastern Sprints in nine of the past ten years. The Crimson yardlings have won silver medals at the IRA National Championship Regatta in 2004 and 2005 and bronze in 2003 and 2008. His freshman have raced at the Henley Royal Regatta five times winning the Temple Challenge Cup in 2001 and 2002.

Manning served as an assistant coach with the U.S. Junior National Team at five World Championships and as an assistant coach for the U.S. Senior Team in 2003 and 2004.  At the 2004 Olympics he assisted fellow Harvard coach Charley Butt with the U.S. 2-, heavyweight 2X, and lightweight 2X.  Most recently Manning has been responsible for the United States U23 Men's Sculling.

On the international level, Muri spent two summers (2004-05) serving as an assistant coach on the U.S. Women's Junior Team. She helped the women's 4- and 2- earn places in the grand final at the junior world championships each year and coached both crews to gold medals at the U S national championships in 2005. Most recently she guided the U.S. U-23 men's lightweight 4- to a seventh place finish at the 2006 U-23 World Championships, coached the same boat at the 2007 U-23 World Championships. She has also been a learn-to-row instructor with a variety of camps and clubs throughout the Northeast.

As a competitor, Muri was a nine-time U.S. national team member and is a three-time world champion. In 1994 she was a Sullivan Award semifinalist. Muri is also an 18-time U.S. national champion, has six Head of the Charles championships to her name and is the owner of two CRASH-B Sprints hammers.

GREG RUCKMAN is an eight-time national team member.  He won gold, with Steve Tucker, in the lightweight 2X at the 2004 Olympic Qualifying Regatta; and gold in the lightweight 2X at the 2003 World Cup.  Greg, who began rowing at Harvard, failed to make any racing boats his freshman year. In high school, he was a runner and won the 3,200m, 1,600m, 800m and 4x800m relay at his league track and field championships in 1992.  He won the Englewood Reserve Marathon that is contested on a 2.5-mile muddy loop.  Following the 2000 Olympics, Greg raced bicycles for Team Hacock-Moto and finished second at the 2001 Mount Washington Hill Climb.

Greg is currently a cross country ski instructor at the Breckenridge Nordic Center in Colorado.

PATTIE PINKERTON is currently the head coach at the Univeristy of California, San Diego.  Her coaching experience includes time as head women’s coach at Gonzaga University and the Senior Rowing Coach at the Western Australian Institute of Sport throughout the 1990s.  In 1992, she was named Rowing Coach of the Year in Western Australia. 

She has served as the Director of the Women’s Sports Foundation, and as the President of the National Women’s Rowing Association.

Pattie was the 1984 USRowing Woman of the Year; and was the first female member of  Riverside Boat Club in Boston, MA