Emily Egge - Assistant Coach - Rowing Coaches

Emily Egge

Title:
Assistant Coach
Phone:
(919) 681-9453

Emily Egge enters her fourth season as the novice coach and recruiting coordinator for the Duke women’s rowing program.

Since her first season with the Blue Devils, Egge has developed true novice walk-on athletes into vital members of the varsity squad. Her rowers have gone on to compete for Duke in all varsity boat classes. In the 2006 campaign, her novice team competed as the varsity four crew, placing third at the ACC Championships against crews of experienced varsity rowers. Egge is also charged with expanding Duke's recruiting efforts across the United States and around the globe, bringing the strongest recruiting classes in team history to Durham. In the fall of 2004, she coached the Class of 2008 recruits to a seventh-place finish in the youth 8+ at the Head of the Charles and a victory in the novice 8+ at the Rivanna Romp. This year, Egge was also responsible for developing a program of injury prevention for the team through core development and flexibility training.

A 2000 graduate of the University of Virginia, Egge began her coaching career as a graduate assistant rowing coach at the University of Louisville while pursuing a master’s degree. Prior to joining the Duke staff, she spent the 2002-03 season as interim freshman men's coach at Georgetown. Egge also served as Director and Sculling Coach of the Frisco Bay Rowing Center in Colorado and masters rowing coach at the Louisville Rowing Club.

At Virginia, Egge completed a successful four-year rowing career highlighted by two gold medals in the second varsity 8+ at the 1998 and 1999 NCAA Championships. As a fourth-year co-captain, Egge stroked the varsity 8+ to victory in the inaugural ACC Rowing Championships in 2000. She earned All-ACC honors that year, as well as the Virginia nomination for NCAA Woman of the Year. Egge was also named to the ACC’s 50th Anniversary Rowing Team.

A native of Alexandria, Va., Egge began her rowing career at Thomas Jefferson High School, winning the 1996 Scholastic National Championship in the varsity 8+ during her senior season. She was also a member of the 1996 U.S. Junior National Team.

Egge graduated from Virginia with a bachelor of arts degree in economics with a concentration in finance and Spanish and earned a master of science degree in sport administration from Louisville.