Girls' Crew

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

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Meet Coach Redos

John Redos ’09 holds a bachelor of science in communication from Cornell University (2013) and a master in sociology from the University of Oxford (2014). He returns to his alma mater as a member of the English faculty and head girls’ rowing coach. John’s teaching career has taken him to Oxford, where he taught psychology and English at Greene’s Tutorial College, and to Montenegro, where he taught at University of Montenegro and coordinated teacher education workshops and seminars as a Fulbright Grant Finalist. He also worked for a year as a research assistant at Harvard's Graduate School of Education investigating the social aspects of teacher and student interactions.

John brings 12 years of rowing experience to Blair Academy. He began his rowing career at Blair during his sophomore year. At Blair, he medaled at the Stotesbury Regatta in his sophomore, junior, and senior years. After he and his teammates achieved gold in the Senior 4+ at Stotesbury in 2008, his crew was the first Blair boat to ever attend the USRowing Youth National Championships where they achieved a silver medal in the Open 4+ event.

After Blair, John was recruited to Cornell University, where he rowed Division I for their Varsity Lightweights for four years. At Cornell, his freshman crew achieved gold at the 2010 Eastern Sprints Regatta. Following his freshman year, John achieved varsity letters in his sophomore, junior, and senior years. While at Cornell, John represented the United States as a member of the U23 National Team in 2010 and 2012 in the Lightweight Men’s Quadruple Sculls. Upon graduating Cornell, John transitioned to openweight and rowed for Taurus Boat Club (UK) at the Henley Royal Regatta in 2013, where his crew made it to the semi-finals in the Brittania Challenge Cup. John finished his rowing career in Oxford, where he rowed openweight for Oxford University Boat Club. He sat bow in the winning Isis crew at the 2014 Oxford and Cambridge Boat Races. Following the Boat Race, John returned to Oriel College, University of Oxford and helped his crew achieve Head of the River at Summer Eights, a race originating in 1815.

John transitioned into coaching by serving as the head men’s rowing coach at Keble College, University of Oxford for three years. During his time at Keble, John and his assistant coach built the team from five rowers and one coxswain into a team of five competitive eights that trained three seasons during the academic year. In his first season, John helped enable the club to post its most successful season in over 40 years.

John is married to Dr. Suzana Markolovic, Blair science teacher, cross country coach and track coach.

Contact Coach Redos at redosj@blair.edu for any questions.

Meet Coach Paone

A 2018 graduate of Bates College, Marianna Paone joined Blair’s faculty in 2018 as a history teacher and rowing coach as well as help coach for the JV girls’ basketball team, and JV girls' soccer team. She majored in history with a concentration in European history and minored in educational studies, gaining classroom experience as a teacher’s assistant at several Lewiston, Maine, elementary schools and as a fifth-grade teacher at Oranjekloof Moravian Primary School in Cape Town, South Africa. Marianna was a four-year member of Bates’ NCAA-champion varsity rowing team, and she received the Bates athletic department's Senior Scholar Award in 2018.

Meet Coach Ayers

Classics teacher Lucy Ayers is an alumna of New York University (NYU), having graduated magna cum laude in 2015 with a bachelor’s degree in classics and received the department’s Bluma L. Trell Prize for outstanding contribution to the field of classics. She continued her education at the University of Pennsylvania, where she earned her master’s degree in classics in 2016. Before joining Blair’s faculty, she gained classroom experience as a Latin teacher at Peddie School and Caesar Rodney High School, and previously worked as a paralegal at an intellectual property law firm and as an assistant editor at Scholastic Education. In addition to teaching Latin 4 and 5 at Blair, Ms. Ayers also serves as a rowing coach, a role to which she brings several years of experience. At NYU, she rowed in the women's pair, earning silver medals at the Head of the Schuylkill Regatta (2011) and the New York State Collegiate Championships (2014). A volunteer at Row New York during her college days, she also worked as a summer rowing coach at the Princeton National Rowing Association. Ms. Ayers lives in Ivy Hall. 

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