Girls’ Crew

MAPL CHAMPS
2007, 2008, 2013, 2016, 2018, 2021, 2023, 2024

Congratulations to the Girls' Crew 1V boat on winning the 2023 Stotesbury Senior Four event!

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Meet Coach Redos

Since joining Blair Academy in September 2018, John Redos '09 has brought a deep commitment to rowing and to the development of student-athletes. Under his guidance, the women’s rowing team has achieved notable successes, including three Scholastic National Championship titles, three Stotesbury Cup Championships, and a second-place finish at the USRowing Youth Nationals in the Women’s 4+.

Coach Redos is dedicated to supporting his athletes’ growth both on and off the water. To date, 18 of his rowers have continued their athletic careers in collegiate programs, with three athletes having the honor of representing their countries at the U19 and U23 World Championships. A key accomplishment for Blair Rowing was the opening of a rowing center on campus in 2021, a project in which Coach Redos played a pivotal role. In 2020, in response to the challenges presented by COVID-19, he worked closely with his coaching team and the Blair community to establish a small boat fall training program. He also organizes annual training trips to Chula Vista’s Elite Athlete Training Center and, in 2024, introduced the first cross-training cross-country ski trip to Craftsbury Outdoor Center.

Before his time at Blair Academy, Coach Redos spent three years coaching at Keble College, University of Oxford, where he led 12 weekly sessions for 40 students, contributing to one of the club’s most successful periods in over 40 years.

John’s own rowing experience includes four years on Cornell’s Varsity Lightweight team, participation on the U23 US National Team in 2010 and 2012, and rowing open weight for Oxford University Boat Club, where he was part of the winning Isis crew in the 2014 Boat Races.

Blair holds special meaning for John, as it is where his rowing journey began during his sophomore year. He was fortunate to medal at the Stotesbury Regatta in his sophomore, junior, and senior years. In 2008, after winning gold in the Senior 4+ at Stotesbury, his crew became the first Blair boat to compete at the USRowing Youth National Championships, where they earned a silver medal in the Open 4+ event.

Contact Coach Redos with any questions.

Meet Coach Svensson

Science teacher Will Svensson comes to Blair from Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts, where he completed his master’s degree in 2023 in environmental science and policy with a focus on climate change, resiliency and societal impacts. Beyond his graduate studies and undergraduate work in ecology and evolutionary biology, also at Northeastern, Will has served as an ecologist in the Suisun Marsh for The Teal Club in Suisun, California, where he focused on raising and releasing game birds and assessing habitat through fieldwork and study. He also worked as public outreach coordinator for Northeastern’s College of Science, a communications-focused role that included the opportunity to conduct scientific interviews, and as a student researcher focused on the impact of disease on social insects. A 2018 graduate of Vermont Academy in Saxtons River, Vermont, where he captained the rowing and ski teams, Will is also a nature lover and jiujitsu practitioner.

Meet Coach Dunne

Caitlin Dunne joined our English department, bringing to Blair 10 years of experience at Robert College in Istanbul, where she was high school prep English coordinator and deputy head of social entrepreneurship, innovation and creativity. Having earned her BA from Manhattan College (where she rowed competitively) in 2003 and master’s degree in English education from Columbia University Teachers College in 2006, Caitlin is currently pursuing a doctor of education degree from the University of Bath in the United Kingdom, expecting to complete her studies in 2026. Earlier in her career, Caitlin served as an English and musical theater faculty member at the Foreign Language Academy of Global Studies in the South Bronx. She has also worked as an instructional coach and assistant director of teaching and learning over the summers at Sarah Lawrence College as part of the EXPLO program, as well as assistant director of summer camps in Maine, Pennsylvania and New York. 

View more recent photos on Blair's Photoshelter or past seasons (2004-2018) on Blair's Flickr.

Rowers who competed internationally

Ava Gamble '21
U23 USA National Team, 2022

Petra Csanyi '22
U19 Hungarian National Team, 2022
U23 Hungarian National Team, 2023

Emily Tierney '25
U19 USA National Team, 2023
U19 USA National Team, 2024 - World Champion in the U19 Women's 8+

With construction completed in 2021, the Crew Training Center is the latest campus enhancement to be completed as part of Blair’s 2018-2025 Strategic Plan, All In. The Center (formerly the Park Street maker space), is a state-of-the-art facility especially designed and constructed to facilitate training over the winter months. It features dedicated weight- and ergometer-training areas, as well as an eight-seat sweep/sculling tank. This new facility, along with the J. Li Golf Training Center and winter sports complex, reflects Blair’s continuing commitment to provide student-athletes with the resources, equipment and support necessary to excel at the highest levels. Blair is only one of a handful of high schools in the United States to offer such a training center, highlighting how the School is prioritizing the growth of its rowing program.