Men's Rowing Coach
Head
Coach
Rowing
Coordinator
29th
Season
Ric Ricci
brings 35 years of coaching experience to the Connecticut
College men's rowing program.
Ricci was a three-year
varsity oarsman at Trinity and captained the team during his
senior year.He won the pair without coxswain event at the
Intercollegiate Rowing Association National Championship in
1972 and 1973. Ricci was also a finalist at the 72 Olympic
Trials and the prestigious Henley Royal Regatta in England.
Ricci began his coaching career at Connecticut College in
1973 and has brought the program from its infancy to small
college prominence. After
leaving Connecticut College in 1981, he coached the freshman
heavyweight crew at Yale University and ran the club program
at the Blood Street Sculls Rowing Club in Old Lyme, Connecticut.
He then served as head coach of the women's rowing program
at Rutgers University before returning to Connecticut College
in 1988. Since then Ricci has built a tradition of excellence
for Connecticut College rowing. In the last nine years, Connecticut
College has taken two gold and eight silver medals at the
New England Championship and two gold and one bronze medal
at the Dad Vail Regatta in Philadelphia.In 1991, Ricci coached
a silver medalist pair at the Pan American Games in Havana,
Cuba.
In addition
to collegiate coaching, he also serves as the assistant administrative
director of the sculling program at the Craftsbury Sculling
Center in Craftsbury Common, Vermont. Ricci is also an active
competitor in single scull racing throughout the United States.
Assistant Coach
First Season
Jack Marolich, a 2008 graduate of Western Washington University, enters his first season as assistant men’s rowing coach at Connecticut College.
Marolich competed at the varsity level in each of his four years with the Vikings’ athletic program. In 2006, Marolich rowed in the varsity four and varsity eight boats that won the Northwest Collegiate Rowing Conference (NRC) Championships, helping his team earn the NCRC Team Title for the first time in program history. In that same season, Marolich went on to win the Western Intercollegiate Rowing (WIRA)Championship in the varsity four, topping a field of 24 boats. That same boat finished third at the Pacific Coast Rowing Championships (PCRC) and went on to compete at the Intercollegiate Rowing Association (IRA) National Regatta.
In 2008, Marolich was a member of the varsity four boat that won the NCRC Championships and placed third at the WIRA championships. Marolich competed at the Dad Vail regatta in Philadelphia, winning the initial heat race, and missing the final race by .4 seconds, placing third when top 2 advanced in the semi-final.
Maroloich was named second team All-WIRA in 2006 and 2008 and was a first team All-NCRC performer in 2008. A two-year captain of the team, Marolich served in various managerial positions with the Viking rowing program as the team treasurer, vice-president, and president over the course of his four-year career on the water. Marolich served as the president of the WWU sport club committee during the 2007-2008 school year, overseeing the operation of all 19 club sport teams.
He received his degree in Finance and Economics in the spring of 2008.
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Jack Marolich 
