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The Boston Coaching Project Coach Claire. Former D1 Head Coach. Recruiting Expert. Rowing recruiting & performance coach for female athletes. Boston based. Everywhere virtually.

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Juniors, class of 2028, August 1 has come and gone.That date is when in-person recruiting opens. Off-campus contact, uno...
24/08/2026

Juniors, class of 2028, August 1 has come and gone.

That date is when in-person recruiting opens. Off-campus contact, unofficial visits with real recruiting conversation, and official visits.

Which means coaches spent the summer quietly building a list of who they intend to bring to campus.

So there are two kinds of athletes right now. The ones already on that list, and the ones sending a first email into an inbox that took on hundreds of others in a single morning.

If your athlete has not reached out yet, this week is the week. Not October. This week.

And if they do not know what to send, that is exactly what Modules 4 and 5 of my course are for. They go from nothing to a sent, personalized email.

Link in bio.

Fall testing season is close, and the most common mistake I see is athletes training hard right up to the line and arriv...
23/08/2026

Fall testing season is close, and the most common mistake I see is athletes training hard right up to the line and arriving at the test exhausted.

Two weeks out, volume comes down and intensity holds. You are not building fitness anymore. You are getting sharp.

And write the plan before you sit down. The number of very good athletes who produce a bad 2K because they went with feel instead of a plan is high.

Save this and come back to it a couple of weeks before your test.

If you want a training plan built around a specific test date, that is something I do separately. Send me a DM.

Module 2 of my course, Get Recruited for College Rowing, covers what to report to coaches and what THEY read into it. Link in bio.

21/08/2026

Every week I talk to an athlete who decided a program was not interested because a coach did not write back.

Here is what was actually happening on the other end of that inbox.

Two practices a day. A weekend of travel. Their own team’s season to plan. And somewhere between one and two hundred unread recruiting emails sitting underneath all of it, most of them opening with the same three sentences.

Silence is not information. It is a queue.

So follow up on a schedule, and give them a reason to open it. A new race result. An updated score. A video that went up last week. Never “just checking in.”

The athletes who get seen are almost never the ones who emailed once.

Module 6 of my course, Get Recruited for Women’s College Rowing, covers how to read coach responses and time follow ups. Eight modules, self-paced, for rowers and coxswains. Link in bio.

21/08/2026

I’m Claire, and this is where I spent my career.

Seventeen years coaching Division I women’s rowing, including as a head coach at MIT. Which means for seventeen years I was the person on the receiving end of the recruiting email, deciding who to call back.

That is the part most families never get to see, and it is the part I teach now.

The name says Boston. The athletes I work with are going to schools everywhere.

Rowers and coxswains, if college rowing is the goal, reach out. My DMs are open and the course is in my bio.

⭐️Parents, here’s one thing you can do today that will immediately elevate your daughters recruiting process - 👉 Help he...
25/02/2026

⭐️Parents, here’s one thing you can do today that will immediately elevate your daughters recruiting process -

👉 Help her create a recruiting-specific email address.

Not yours. Not her school one.

One that looks like this:

firstname.lastname.gradyear@gmail

Why this matters:

• It signals professionalism to college coaches
• It keeps all recruiting communication organized
• It teaches her ownership of the process
• It avoids missed emails buried in school inboxes

Recruiting is evaluation, on and off the water.

Coaches notice details.

And here’s the bigger picture:

When she takes responsibility for communication, she starts stepping into the level required to row in college.

Small action. Big signal.

If you’re not sure what comes after the email setup, DM me “PLAN” and I’ll point you in the right direction.

13/02/2026

Boston Coaching Project was proud to sponsor the fueling station at the 2026 USRowing Indoor National Championships in Pittsburgh last weekend!

Getting the right fuel is key to any performance, whether it’s a pre-race snack or learning the information needed to fuel your recruiting journey, it’s all important!

Huge congratulations to all who competed last weekend! 🙌

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