In the past few years, ICC has achieved new standards of competitiveness on the water, thanks to dedicated and motivated rowers and coaches, supported by energetic parents and board members. There are crews on the water with more athletes than ICC may have, but what our crew may lack in relative size , we more than make up for with talent, determination and team cohesion.

ICC is a “family affair” that joins rowers and coaches (the “Team”) to a family-­‐based, parent-­‐led support group (the “Club”), which provides all of the planning and implementation of facilities, equipment, logistics and regatta support. The ICC Board of Directors is dedicated to enlisting the support of all rowers’ families to contribute to the program – which is really the only way we know to continue the ICC tradition of a preeminent high school scholastic rowing team.

We are quite fortunate that there is great stability among our coaches; most of those who guided the Team to unprecedented achievements in regattas (including at the Scholastic Nationals and the Head of the Charles) are returning this year. The head coach of the girls' side will again be Tony Brooks. Tony has extensive rowing and coaching experience, having rowed at Harvard, on the US Olympic Team, and coached at New Trier for a number of years. We're also fortunate to have a new men's head coach this year, ICC alumnus Jack Vitanovec. Jack moved up to this position after several years of successfully coaching our JV rowers to greater and greater achievements. Together, Tony and Jack are in the process of rounding out their coaching staff, having already tapped last year's novice coaches, Len Richards, Peder Teigen, and Mike Casadas for return engagements, and added our newest coach, Bryan Cheung.