Brendan Murphy enters his first season as an assistant coach on the Wesleyan men’s crew team in 2022-23. Murphy was a four-year member of the Syracuse crew team as an undergrad and has coached at the club, collegiate and high school level over the past eight years.
Murphy comes to Wesleyan via Marietta College in Ohio where he served as the assistant coach and recruiting coordinator since fall 2019. He organized official visits for potential student-athletes and recruited over 30 athletes to Marietta in his three seasons. He also maintained, rigged and solo transported a fleet of 15+ shells across the country.
During the summer of 2021, Murphy served as head coach of the New York Athletic Club based in Pelham. With the New York Athletic Club, Murphy evaluated and selected crews for Independence Day Regatta and the US Rowing Summer Championship, where he won three gold medals with lightweight U23 squads.
No stranger to Connecticut, prior to Marietta, Murphy spent three seasons as the assistant coach and recruiting coordinator at Trinity in Hartford. He helped coach the 2nd varsity 4 boat to a third place showing at the New England Championships in 2017.
Prior to Trinity, Murphy’s first head coaching experience came at the high school level where he led the Christian Brothers Academy in Lincroft, New Jersey for the 2015-16 season. He established a collegiate-level rowing culture in a high school environment and developed a year-long training plan. Under his guidance, multiple students landed at NCAA Division I programs.
His first coaching experience came with Cornell University for the 2014-15 campaign where he served as the volunteer assistant. Murphy instructed athletes, participated in staff meetings and recruiting sessions and shadowed the boatman during day-to-day maintenance of the facilities.
Murphy graduated from Syracuse in 2014 with a bachelor’s degree in arts and sciences.
