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Kit Bennett
Director and Head Coach, Women’s Varsity/JV
734-882-9300
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Kit hails from London, England, where he began coaching in 2000. He served as Head Coach at Hatfield College, part of Durham University (UK), and since coming stateside he has been passionate about expanding rowing opportunities for athletes and coaches in Ann Arbor and the Midwest. In 2009 Kit founded the Skyline High School Crew , a program which in its first five years established itself among the region’s best, producing Midwest Regionals medal-winning crews as well as US Scholastic and Canadian National Champions. The team has grown from 25 athletes to over 80.
Kit is US Rowing Level 3 High Performance certified and was part of the coaching staff for the US u19 National Team sculling section for three years. He coached athletes at the Junior World Championships in Trakai Lithuania in 2013, and in 2012 he led the US squad to multiple golds at the 2012 CanAmMex Regatta in Mexico City. With the birth of his son Finn (and now Henry), he took time away from National Team to spend more time with his family.
Kit completed four years as an assistant for the Varsity men’s program at the University of Michigan, where his athletes won multiple ACRA National Championships, as well as a Dad Vail title.
His work in 2017 with the Ann Arbor Public School system won the highly sought after George Pocock Foundation “Erg Ed” grant, which brought rowing education officially into the AAPS district 6th-12th grade PE curriculum.