Bucknell University Athletics
AJ Miller and Dan Wolleben Named Assistant Women's Rowing Coaches at Bucknell
7/27/2007 8:00:00 AM | Women's Rowing
July 27, 2007
LEWISBURG, Pa. - Bucknell head women's rowing coach Stephen Kish announced Friday that AJ Miller and Dan Wolleben will join the Bison staff as assistant coaches. Miller was a four-year member of the women's rowing team at William Smith and most recently was a volunteer coach for the men's crew program at Hobart. Wolleben was a two-time team captain at Fordham and has served as the head novice women's rowing coach and recruiting coordinator with the Rams for the past two years.
"Dan and AJ were talented, hard working and accomplished athletes in college," commented Kish, a two-time recipient of the Patriot League Coach of the Year award. "They have transferred that same work ethic and competitive drive to their coaching. I expect Dan and AJ to have a significant impact on our success over the next few years."
Miller spent the past year completing her degree at William Smith while also volunteering with the men's crew team at Hobart. Prior to that, she was the head women's novice coach at Fairfield. She helped guide the Stags to numerous first-place finishes, including a gold medal performance by the novice eight at the Metropolitan Intercollegiate R.A. Spring Championship in 2006. The novice four, which posted first-place showings four times throughout the season, took second at that event. Both the novice eight and novice four closed out the campaign with berths in the semifinals of the Dad Vail Regatta.
From 2000 to 2002, Miller served as assistant women's rowing coach and head novice coach at Southern Methodist University. In addition to assisting the head coach in winter training, she created and applied the fitness rowing program for the team, helped coordinate travel and was instrumental in practice scheduling, regatta organization and race coordination.
Miller started coaching at the college level at Colby College during the 1999-2000 campaign when she was an assistant coach for both the men's and women's crew programs.
At William Smith, Miller was a four-year member of the varsity program, which earned the New York State Championship three times as well as the 1999 Division II/III national championship. She also earned the William Smith Coach's Award for sportsmanship and the Betsy Smith Award for perseverance in 1999.
Following her collegiate career, Miller spent the summers of 2000 and 2002 competing with the New York Athletic Club. She trained and competed in eights, a quad and a straight four and won a silver medal in women's intermediate quad at the 2002 U.S. Rowing Nationals. Additionally, she served as a juniors coach at the New York Athletic Club.
At Bucknell, Miller will assist with the varsity and serve as recruiting coordinator.
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Since graduation, Wolleben has been the head men's rowing coach at the Fordham Prep School. In his three years at the helm of the program, he has helped the squad to four top-three finishes at the New York State High School Championship and the 4+ to a ninth-place showing at Scholastic Nationals.
Wolleben has been an assistant coach with Fordham's women's rowing team at the same time he has headed the Fordham Prep School program. His first year he was an assistant novice women's rowing coach, while the last two years he has been the head novice women's rowing coach and recruiting coordinator. During that time Wolleben's main responsibility has been to coach the novice eight and second varsity eight, while also assisting the head coach with the varsity eight. In 2006, Fordham's first and second novice eight both posted their best finishes in school history at the Atlantic 10 Championships.
Wolleben will work with the novice women at Bucknell.
Miller and Wolleben will join a Bison team that had a banner year in 2007. The squad claimed its second straight Patriot League Championship, the ECAC Metro Championship and the lightweight eight won the IRA National Championship.
