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Press contact
UTC Rowing
Reach out directly — the team inbox goes to Head Coach Abraham Mako. Alumni and history questions go to Michael Kinsey, kinseymi@radl.solutions.
Quick facts
- Founded
- 1971 (Pocock-shell donation from William G. Raoul)
- First competing as UTC
- 1983 (under Coach Terry Carney)
- Status
- Club sport — UTC Club Sports + USRowing
- Boathouse
- William Raoul Rowing Center, 1001 Riverside Dr, Chattanooga, TN
- Olympic alumni
- Dan Beery, gold medalist, U.S. Men's Eight, Athens 2004
- Head coach
- Abraham Mako (2026–27; stroke of the 2026 ACRA M4x)
- Alumni relations
- Michael Kinsey (head coach, Fall 2025 – ACRA 2026)
- Current roster
- Nine athletes for 2026–27 — three returning from the 2026 ACRA M4x, six new
- Last race
- ACRA Nationals, May 15-17 2026, Melton Hill Lake, Oak Ridge TN — M4x 3rd in B Final (7:37.900)
- Next race
- Head of the Hooch, November 7–8 2026, Chattanooga TN
2026 ACRA crew (M4x)
Stroke to bow. All Class of 2027.
Abraham Mako
Stroke · 4 seat
Chattanooga, TN
Connor Richardson
3 seat
Hanau, Germany · U.S. Army active duty
Tyler Burkett
2 seat
Red Lion, PA · U.S. Army active duty
Jay Pollard
Bow · 1 seat
Kingston, NY · U.S. Army active duty
Head Coach Abraham Mako
Head coach of UTC Rowing for 2026–27. Came up through Chattanooga Junior Rowing and co-founded Chattanooga State Rowing before transferring to UTC.
Helped restart the UTC program in Fall 2025 and stroked the 2026 ACRA M4x to a photo-finish third in the B final — the first UTC team boat at ACRA in eight years.
Michael Kinsey, head coach through the restart, now serves as the program’s Alumni Relations Director.
Photos & video
Anything visible on this site is available at higher resolution on request — email rowutc@gmail.com with the page or asset you need. The sources currently in use:
- M4x ACRA-prep video (May 2 2026 scrimmage at Oak Ridge)
- Empacher hull-damage photograph (May 2026, the boat UTC isn’t racing)
- Coach Mako single-scull photography (Tennessee River at dusk)
- Athlete portraits (2026 ACRA crew)
- River photography (sunrise pair on the Tennessee River)
Instagram: @utc_rowing
Background reading
Coach’s notes from the season.
The journal is the program’s record in the coach’s voice — useful for quotes and color.
Read the journal →