Our Team
EMMIE KOENIG
Director - Contact Emmie
Emmie is now in her 15th year at Pacific Rowing Club (PRC), or 19th if you count her years as an athlete with the team. A native of San Francisco, Emmie has been dedicated to the sport of rowing for over 24 years. Throughout her career, she has distinguished herself as a junior and collegiate oarswoman, varsity women’s coach, and Program Director.
As a youth, Emmie rowed for PRC’s varsity women’s team and was recruited to UC Berkeley’s renowned collegiate rowing team. Her experience and success at PRC translated to a national championship for the Bears. She graduated from UC Berkeley in 2009 with a degree in Environmental Geography.
Emmie is committed to coaching and leading PRC with a clear goal: to empower athletes and coaches to realize they are more capable than they think. She firmly believes that with hard work, effort, and a positive attitude, anything is possible.
DAMEON ENGBLOM
Youth Men’s Coach/ Operations Assistant - Contact Dameon
Dameon comes to us with a plethora of experience with a coaching career spanning the past 18 years and a rowing career beginning in 1997. Most recently, Dameon was an assistant coach with UC San Diego Men’s Rowing program. Dameon has also coached on the college level at University of Pennsylvania and Oregon State University. During his years at the college level he gained invaluable experience in not just coaching fast crews but also building programs
Dameon is also no stranger to juniors rowing, in particular our own southwest region. He started his coaching career with Capitol Crew in 2006 where his boats saw a lot of success. While at Capital his varsity 8 was placed top 5 in the nation all three years of his tenure, with a third place finish in 2007. The lightweight 8 was also a top 10 crew all three years. That stretch remains the best in the program’s history.
On the high school level he has also coached at Oakland Strokes and and Deerfield Academy. Fun fact: Dameon's Deerfield Men's 4+ had a nail biter of a race in 2014 against PRC's 4+ where, after only a few months of training, his boat came in 3rd to PRC which took the gold.
ISABEL VASQUEZ
Head Master’s Coach - Contact Isa
Isabel is returning for her fifth year as a PRC coach and ninth year in the PRC community. She is no stranger to adversity in rowing, but from these experiences, they hope to teach her athletes how to be excellent rowers both on and off the water.
Isa’s rowing career began in 2013 as a freshman in high school. She was a scrawny little kid who could barely do a few push ups without getting winded. Thanks to some high school friends, however, she found Pacific and promptly joined the novice men. It was there that she began to excel at the sport of rowing and found themselves and her crew mates performing exceptionally well in the Novice 8+ and Freshman 8+ categories. As a varsity rower, she spent time in every kind of boat from the 8+ to the 2x and was named the most improved athlete in the 2015-2016 season.
Isa continued rowing as a college student at the University of Washington. She joined the club rowing team and became Team Captain in 2019. That year, she led many boats to success at master-level regattas as both a rower in the boat and as a student-coach in the launch. She rowed in the 8+ that won gold the 15K Otter Island Regatta in Everett, and She coached the 4x that took silver in the 1K Frostbite Regatta in Seattle.
Alongside coaching, Isa is now pursuing her Master’s Degree in Physics at San Francisco State University.
GAVIN CALLIES
Boat Man / Masters Coach - Contact Gavin
Gavin fixes boats and everything else that is broken.
ADRIAN JOHNSON
Assitant Youth/U17 Men’s Coach - Contact Adrian
Adrian started his rowing career at Cambridge University in the UK. In his second year of rowing he was part of his college first VIII that went Head of the May Bumps - the first time his college had been Head for 143 yrs. After leaving Cambridge he rowed and sculled for several clubs in the London and SE England area. Highlights included reaching the finals of the Thames Cup at Henley Royal Regatta and a silver medal at the GB National Championships.
After taking a break from rowing to explore other interests (cycling, running, being a Dad!) he started coaching for PRC, initially as a volunteer for the Middle School Program then as an Assistant Coach for the Novice and Varsity Mens teams. Adrian is a keen student of human movement and is passionate about long term athletic development. In particular, teaching people how to make best use of their bodies to get the most out of themselves in a safe and healthy manner.
WILL AUBIN
U16/U15/Novice Men’s Coach - Contact Will
Will started rowing his sophomore year of high school after an unremarkable football career. He went on to row for three years at Leon High School in Tallahassee, FL, and in his senior year, helped form what is now known as Capital City Rowing. After rowing in high school, he continued rowing at Emory University in Atlanta, where he rowed for four years, holding the position of team captain for his final two years on the team. At Emory, he participated in the Head of The Charles Regatta, Dad Vails, USRowing Sculling Development Camp, and ACRAs. Throughout his rowing career, Will was consistently the rower that fell just short of making the top boat in high school and college. He takes this perspective of what it feels like to fall just short of a goal and the importance of the team making top boats fast with him as a coach.
Since transitioning to the coaching side of the sport, Will has coached across many different levels, from Masters to middle school. He has recently coached at Emory University as the Novice women's coach and at Los Gatos Rowing Club as a masters and middle school coach. He is passionate about diversifying the sport and improving pathways for a boathouse to become a true community boathouse.
Outside of rowing, Will previously worked in education as both a classroom teacher and a program manager at City Year. He currently works as a project manager at Silicon Valley Community Foundation, supporting capacity and leadership development for local nonprofits. He holds a Masters of Education from Harvard University's Graduate School of Education. He looks forward to calling Pacific Rowing Club his rowing home and developing young athletes' love for the sport as the Novice men/U16 coach.
JOHN PAUL
Assistant Coach - Contact John
Another San Francisco native, John started rowing right here at Pacific. While here he traveled to the US Youth Rowing Nationals twice earning a bronze medal in the lightweight eight in 2005. He also participated in a regional development camp in 2004 where he traveled to US Rowing Summer Club Nationals and won a bronze in the youth varsity eight category. His senior year he was voted team captain. After high school he rowed four years as a lightweight for the US Naval Academy. His sophomore year his junior varsity eight went undefeated and won the eastern sprints. He participated in three IRA national championships and in 2010 he earned a silver medal in the lightweight eight.
John graduated with a degree in Mechanical Engineering and served eight years as an Infantry Officer in the US Marine Corps. John lives in San Francisco where he attends law school and works part time with the club. He began coaching at Pacific in 2018 and has brought a unique perspective to the team.
COACH ANTHONY
Outreach - Contact Anthony
First Generation College Graduate of Polynesian and San Francisco Irish-Italian Immigrants, recruited to row at the University of Washington and graduated in the field Peer Health Education and worked for Seattle-King County Public Health. (Re)Emerging into rowing after a 10 year hiatus, Coach Anthony has coached the middle school rowing program at Nor-Cal, and water recreational athletics with BIAC for the Redwood City youth, and has experience with youth development for over 10+ years. As a member of this highly engaged sport, Coach Anthony, will further provide athletes a deeper understanding of mindfulness.
SARAH BABINEAUX
Assistant- U15/U16 Women’s Coach
Sarah is a PRC alumna who graduated in 2014. Sarah went on to row for one year at Boston University. Sarah worked for two summers at the PRC learn to row camp and enjoyed sharing her love for rowing. Sarah very excited to be assisting in the Novice Women’s program.
In her spare time, Sarah enjoys horseback riding and hiking with her dogs.
LINDSAY MILLER
Assistant- U15/U16 Women’s Coach
Lindsay was first introduced to rowing her junior year of high school at Norcal Crew. After high school, she was recruited to row at University of North Carolina Chapel Hill where she competed all four years of college. Since graduating from UNC, Lindsay has moved back to the Bay Area and coached with the PRC Middle School program for one year.
Lindsay has a degree in Biomedical Engineering and currently works in biotech research. In her free time, Lindsay can be found outdoors, usually skiing, golfing, or training for triathlons.
CONALL KEANE
Assistant - U16 Men’s Coach - Contact Conall
Conall Keane is a recent graduate of PRC. He is a graduate of Pacific and Wallenberg High School. Now he is an economics major at San Francisco State University. He is also an assistant coach for the novice men. Conall is ready to develop our novice athletes into a great future for Pacific.
ANNA KAMINSKI
Assistant- U15/16 Women’s Coach
Anna Kaminski has coaching experience with youth novice and varsity crews as well as middle school programs. Anna is currently helping coach the PRC U-15 and U-16 crews. She rowed in middle school and high school herself, then competed as a DI athlete with George Washington University from 2009 to 2013, and qualified for and raced in the 2- at the Under-23 World Championships in 2012. Anna has a Masters in Public Health from San Francisco State University and works in the non-profit and healthcare sectors. She currently rows with the PRC masters program, and in her free time can be found hiking with her dog and family, baking, or sewing.
HARRISON MOBARAK
BOATMAN’S STOOGE
Harrison is an alumni of the program who has come back to us in multiple roles. He has been gracious enough to pass on his knowledge of rowing through coaching our summer programs and is currently working as the Boatman’s Stooge, helping with boathouse projects and boat repair.