The club has a number of coaches, who each focus on different areas of the club. A brief biography of each of them is shown here.

Raf Wyatt

Raf runs weekend squad training sessions for the men's and women's squads. She has been a coach at Rob Roy since 2006, and is also coach and boatwoman at Lady Margaret Boat Club.

Raf has previously been the National Women's and Lightweight Men's Coach for Switzerland, and a National Development Coach for New Zealand.

Mary McLachlan

Mary is a full-time coach for the ARA's World Class Start programme. She has been at Rob Roy since 2005, and was previously a coach at Bedford Modern School.

As an athlete she raced for GB at the Junior Worlds twice in the Double and Quad, and three times at the Nations Cup in the Under-23 Lightweight Double.

Mary coaches a strong group of Juniors and Under-23's, who are all on the development pathway to the GB squads, and also assists with the top end of the club squads when they are in crew boats with her athletes.

Rebecca Caroe

Rebecca coaches the mens and women's club development squads. She has been at Rob Roy since 2006, having previously rowed at the Tideway Scullers School in London and Marlow Rowing Club.

As a coach she was part of the Coach of the Year 2004 team who founded the juniors J10-14 squad at Tideway Scullers, and she has coached Pembroke College (Cambridge) Women to win the Fairbairn Cup and twice to the Headship in the University Mays Bumps.

As an athlete she has won Henley Womens Regatta and National Championships titles and also been a Henley Royal Regatta finalist, and has represented England in the Home Countries regatta winning gold.

Rebecca is also the UK agent for RowPerfect and Dreher oars.

Pete Shiels

Pete currently primarily coaches juniors and beginners at Robs, together with some crews from the men's squad.

Pete learnt to scull at Robs seven years ago as a junior. Since then he has done some coaching both in the UK and overseas with various groups of people across a wide range of age groups including veterans. This has included first time novice beginners up to senior 2 level. Places have included Leicester, Netherlands (East of, Gelderland) and New York / New Jersey areas.

Coaching interests include flexibility, core stability and body balance, resistance training, the heart rate range, technical drills and development. Pete remembers not having a coach and developing lots of bad habits as a rower and so aims to assist Robs members to avoid that, and also to make any adjustments necessary as a result of coming from a similar background.