Courtesy Wesleyan Sports Information

MIDDLETOWN, Conn. - Brian Dawe has been named interim head coach of women's crew at Wesleyan University for the 2008-09 season, it was announced by Athletics Director John Biddiscombe recently.

Since his graduation from Wesleyan in 1970, Dawe has coached high school, collegiate and masters rowing and sculling at the far corners of America. He was Wesleyan's women's assistant varsity coach and head novice coach the last two years before assuming interim head coaching duties. Just prior to his Wesleyan appointment, he has led Bromfield School in Harvard, Mass., to five years of prominence in the girls division of the Massachusetts Public Schools Rowing Association. Since 2003 Dawe also has taught sculling at the Florida Rowing Center in Wellington, Fla., in the winter while heading to the Anchorage Rowing Association in Alaska for the summers.

Dawe was the founder and first coach of women's crew at Wesleyan, starting in the fall of 1971 and competing in its first intercollegiate competition the spring of 1972. When women's crew became a varsity sport at the University, Dawe headed off to Williams College as varsity men's/head coach of rowing for four years, taking them to medals at the Head of the Charles and Dad Vail Regattas. He subsequently taught mathematics and coached crew at Brooks and Belmont Hill Schools in the greater Boston area.

Dawe has had a career as principal software engineer with Agfa Corporation, which took him to Antwerp, Belgium, for two years where he sculled for T.R.T. at Hazewinkel, a World Cup and Junior World Championship course near Brussels. He still competes for Cambridge (MA) Boat Club and in 2005 rowed for the Anchorage club at the World Masters Games in Edmonton, Alberta.