Tenenbaum Named Rowing Coach
July 25, 2007
CORAL GABLES, Fla. – The University of Miami announced today that Robbie Tenenbaum has been named women’s rowing coach.
In making the announcement, UM Senior Women’s Administrator Connie Nickel said, “Robbie brings a great deal of experience and enthusiasm to the University of Miami’s rowing program. He has coached at some of the premier collegiate rowing programs and with his qualifications I am confident that the future of the rowing program is bright.”
Tenenbaum spent last season with the University of Washington Women’s Rowing program and the eight previous years at Ohio State where he earned the Collegiate Rowing Coaches Association’s (CRCA) 2006 award for Assistant Coach of the Year. That prestigious award is designed to recognize an assistant coach who had success during the recent season, while demonstrating great team improvement from the prior season, fulfilling the team’s potential and demonstrating a high level of professionalism and integrity as a coach. He received back-to-back CRCA Central Region Assistant Coach of the Year honors in 2005 and 2006.
“I am excited to get started here at the University of Miami,” Tenenbaum commented. “This has always been a dream job for me and I am looking forward to working with a great group of student-athletes in a first class athletic department.”
Tenenbaum joined the Buckeyes staff during the summer of 1998. His primary responsibilities included overseeing the second varsity eight, assisting with the varsity squad and recruiting.
Under his instruction at Ohio State, the second varsity eight boat finished fourth in its Grand Final in both the 2005 and 2006 NCAA Championships. The Buckeyes won both of their Grand Finals at the 2006 Big Ten and Central Region championships and had a seven-race win streak during the regular season.
In 2005, the second varsity eight also finished first at the Big Ten Championships. Tenenbaum helped guide the Ohio State first varsity four to a sixth-place finish at the 2004 NCAA Championships and a fourth-place finish in 2003.
In addition to university coaching, Tenenbaum was an assistant coach for the United States Junior National Rowing Team from 1996-2001. In 1996, his Junior Women’s eight took fourth at the World Rowing Championships in Scotland; a year later he was an assistant coach for the Junior Women’s eight that finished third at the World Rowing Championships in Belgium. In 1999, he was an assistant with the Junior Women’s eight that finished second in Bulgaria.
He was an assistant during the summers of 2000 and 2001 when the Junior Women’s four won gold and silver medals in Croatia and Germany respectively. Tenenbaum was named the head coach for the U.S. Junior National team in October 2001. His junior women’s eight won a bronze medal in Lithuania in the summer of 2002 and a silver medal at the Junior World Championships in Athens, Greece in 2003.
A native of Shaker Heights, Ohio, Tenenbaum earned a marketing degree from The University of Tampa in 1992.
