Coaches
Director of Rowing and Waterfront/Head Coach
Oliver Rosenbladt has been named Director of Rowing and Waterfront at Bolles. Rosenbladt will be responsible for the continued development of Bolles’ year-round, competitive rowing program encompassing scholastic, youth, and adult programs at all levels, as well as the management of the School’s waterfront facilities including the new, state-of-the-art Peyton Boathouse and Rice Family Crew Complex.
Rosenbladt offers 25 years of rowing experience as an athlete, coach, and administrator. In addition to a successful collegiate and national-level rowing and sculling career, including participation in the 1996 and 2000 Olympic Trials, he has coached at the club, scholastic and collegiate levels. He holds Level III certification by the US Rowing Association.
Rosenbladt comes to Bolles from Deerfield Academy in Massachusetts where he served as the head coach of girls’ crew for the past 10 years. He guided the girls’ crews to a 187-79 record in dual meet competitions, 13 medals at the New England Championships, and top-five team rankings in New England in six of the ten years. His athletes were invited to participate in the US Junior National Selection and Development Camps and the Canada Games. Alumnae of the Deerfield program under his tutelage have gone on to row at Brown, Harvard/Radcliffe, Yale, Princeton, and other college programs, and have been members of multiple NCAA championship teams and crews.
Rosenbladt’s prior coaching experience also includes sculling technique at the Craftsbury Outdoor Center and Black Bear Sculling in Vermont and New Hampshire, serving as a coach and administrator with the Rivanna Rowing Club in Charlottesville, Virginia, coaching the elite lightweight women at the Riverside Boat Club in Boston, novice and competitive adult sweep rowers and scullers at Community Rowing in Boston, and serving as a volunteer assistant coach to the men’s freshman rowing team at Northeastern University.
Rosenbladt’s competitive career includes seven years of competitive sweeping and sculling at the national and international levels, winning nine national championship medals and four senior national titles, as well as national and Olympic team trials and selection from 1993 through 2000. He represented the U.S. in international regattas at Lucerne, Switzerland, and Copenhagen, Denmark, in 1995. Rosenbladt was a member of the top-five nationally ranked Men’s Varsity Lightweight Eight at Rutgers University, where he served as a team captain and earned male scholar-athlete of the year honors.
Rosenbladt earned an M.A. in English from Northeastern University and a B.A. in English from Rutgers. Originally from California, Rosenbladt is a graduate of Santa Clara High School in Santa Clara. He and his wife, Melissa Brown, have two sons, Nikolai (6) Alexander (2).
“I am pleased and excited that Oliver and his family are joining our Bolles community,” President and Head of School John E. Trainer, Jr., Ph.D. said. “His strong academic background and prior work at an academically rigorous boarding school made him an outstanding fit for us. He brings national and international connections to our crew program, a natural evolution of the outstanding program started by our own Mark Frampton just 16 years ago. His associations with crew programs at some of America’s elite colleges and universities will be valuable to our graduating seniors. He brings a deep interest in students to the campus, and has already expressed interest in supporting student clubs, and even in teaching English at some point in the future.”
Assistant Coaches
Abby Bradford
Karen Pierce