Bill Manning - Men's Rowing - Lightweight Coach - Princeton University Athletics

Bill Manning

Title:
Assistant Coach
Email:
wm7@princeton.edu
Phone:
609-258-5179

Following six successful seasons with the Tiger Lights, the 2021 campaign will be Manning’s first as Assistant Coach & Recruiting Coordinator for the Princeton Women. During the spring racing season his coaching focuses on the Fours.

The 2020 season was cancelled because of the coronavirus.

Some of the highlights from his time with the men’s lightweight team include silver medals for Princeton at the 2018 and 2019 IRA National Championships, winning the H/Y/P Regatta four times, winning the Eastern Sprints with 3V and 4V in 2016 & 2018, and medaling at the IRAs with the LM4- and LM4+ for three consecutive years, including a national championship in 2015.

Manning also coaches internationally for US Rowing. In 2019, he coached the U23 LM4x to fourth at the World Championships. In 2018 he was the USA’s Head Coach at the Youth Olympic Games with responsibility for the M1x and W2-. He also coached the U19 women’s squad winning two bronze medals at the World Championships. In 2015, he led the LM2- to a fifth-place finish at Senior Worlds, the best performance by the US in over a decade. That same summer, his LM4- won silver, his M2- took bronze, and he co-coached the bronze medal-winning M8+ at the Pan American Games.

In 2003-04, Manning and head coach Lori Dauphiny coached together on the USA Senior National and Olympic Teams. He helped the M2- to Olympic qualification in 2003 and at the 2004 Olympic Games assisted with the M2-, M2x, & LM2x. In 2006-07, Manning directed the U23 Men's Sculling program for the United States.

Prior to arriving at Princeton, Manning was Associate Head Coach at Harvard under Harry Parker. In both 2012 and 2013 Harvard won the Rowe Cup at the Eastern Sprints and swept Yale. The 1V also won the Eastern Sprints and Ivy League Championship in 2013. Additionally, they medaled at the IRA Championships (bronze in 2012, silver in 2013). At the Henley Royal Regatta, Harvard’s crews won the Prince Albert Cup (2011), Ladies’ Challenge Plate (2012) and Visitor’s Challenge Cup (2013). In both 2001 and 2002 Manning’s crews won the Temple Challenge Cup at Henley.

Manning began as Parker’s Freshman Coach, winning Eastern Sprints medals in twelve of his thirteen years, including seven victories. The freshman also raced at the IRAs from 2003-11 winning three silvers and three bronzes. Manning's 1F did not lose a dual race in his final five seasons defeating 35 straight opponents between 2007-11. The freshmen also defeated Yale in The Race in eleven of Manning's thirteen years. Additionally, in 2004, he took Harvard to the Lucerne World Cup where they raced as USA-2, defeated the British and French Olympic crews, and made the A Final.

Manning is a Faculty Fellow at Princeton’s Whitman College. He earned an Ed.M. from Harvard and an AB from the College of the Holy Cross. He began rowing at Phillips Exeter Academy.