Women's Rowing - Open
- Title:
- Assistant Coach
- Email:
- kmaxim@princeton.edu
- Phone:
- 258-6373
After six seasons coaching at Oregon State, former Michigan All-America rower Kate Maxim will enter her seventh year with the Princeton staff during the 2018 season. In her first seven seasons, Princeton has won four Ivy League championships, as well as two individual silver medals (2013 V8, 2014 2V8) at the NCAA Championships.
Maxim is coming off a memorable 2017 NCAA Championships, when the V4+ she coached became only the sixth in program history to reach the NCAA grand final. It was also the only double-digit seeded boat in any of the three Division I fields to reach a grand final.
In fact, the Princeton V4+ has made the NCAA grand final in two of the last three years (2015); prior to this run, the Tiger four had never made two NCAA finals in a three-year span.
Maxim has helped recruit significant talent to the University, considering that Princeton has won three of the last four Ivy League titles, including both the 2016 and 2017 titles.
Maxim helped develop Oregon State into a national program by developing the novice crews each season. Her boat finished in the Top 5 at the Pac-10 Championships each season, including a best finish of second during the 2011 season.
Maxim had an especially impressive collegiate career at the University of Michigan, where she rowed for current Oregon State head coach Emily Ford. Her teams finished in the top eight at the NCAA Championships all four seasons, which included a second place team finish in 2001. As a senior, Maxim led the Michigan varsity eight to a second-place finish in the NCAA Championships grand final.
Along the way, Maxim was part of a team and boat that earned three Big Ten Championships and a member of the All-Big Ten team in 2003. As a senior, Maxim was the U-M Athlete of the Year for women's crew, as well as an All-America. She was a three-time Collegiate Rowing Coaches Association National Scholar and a four-time University of Michigan scholar athlete.
Maxim is a 2003 graduate of the University of Michigan with a degree in English and completed her law degree in the summer of 2009.
