We are honored to honor one of our Alumnae coaches - Mayrene Earle!
Mayrene is this year's USRowing 2011 Ernestine Bayer Award Winner. Formerly known as the Women of the Year Award, the Ernestine Bayer Award is given in recognition of outstanding contributions to women’s rowing and/or to an outstanding woman in rowing and is selected by the female members of USRowing Board of Directors.
"Known as the “Mother of Women’s Rowing,” Ernestine Bayer was a pioneer in the sport. She pushed to be allowed to row on the Schuylkill River in Philadelphia and eventually was taught by her husband Ernie Bayer how to row. She established the first women’s rowing club, the Philadelphia Girl’s Rowing Club.
Bayer rowed and competed into her nineties. She died at the age of 97 in 2006.
She was the first woman named to the National Rowing Foundation's Hall of Fame, the first woman to receive the USRowing Medal and the first woman to win USRowing's John J. Carlin Award for service to the sport. She was also nominated for the Sullivan Award, given annually to the top U.S. amateur athlete.
Bayer rowed and competed into her nineties. She died at the age of 97 in 2006.
She was the first woman named to the National Rowing Foundation's Hall of Fame, the first woman to receive the USRowing Medal and the first woman to win USRowing's John J. Carlin Award for service to the sport. She was also nominated for the Sullivan Award, given annually to the top U.S. amateur athlete.
Mayrene began coaching in1974 at Wellesley College where she coached varsity and novice women's crew in addition to women's basketball. She was also a physical education instructor. Following her time at Wellesley, Earle coached at Northeastern University fro 1979 to 1981 before moving to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1983 to 1998 where was both an assistant professor and head women’s coach.
Between 1998 and 2003, Earle worked in the Provincetown Public School system as a health and physical education teacher. During her time as a collegiate coach, Earle’s teams have reached the grand finals at the NCAA championships, were crowned conference champions four times and won four points trophies at the New 8 Regatta and reached the grand finals at the Collegiate Nationals.
Earle, 60, founded MastersCoaching in 2002 and began holding three and four day sweep rowing clinics for master rowers at venues around the world and has led her rowers to gold medals at masters world and national championships and to the podium at the Head of The Charles Regatta."
- USRowing. Between 1998 and 2003, Earle worked in the Provincetown Public School system as a health and physical education teacher. During her time as a collegiate coach, Earle’s teams have reached the grand finals at the NCAA championships, were crowned conference champions four times and won four points trophies at the New 8 Regatta and reached the grand finals at the Collegiate Nationals.
Earle, 60, founded MastersCoaching in 2002 and began holding three and four day sweep rowing clinics for master rowers at venues around the world and has led her rowers to gold medals at masters world and national championships and to the podium at the Head of The Charles Regatta."
It is an honor for us to honor Mayrene - and we hope to see her on campus again very soon!!
