Emma Carlisle Reske - Rowing Coach - University of Massachusetts Athletics

Emma Carlisle Reske

Title:
Assistant Coach
Email:
emmacarlisle@umass.edu

Emma Carlisle Reske was named to the University of Massachusetts rowing staff in December 2016 as volunteer assistant coach, before being promoted to assistant coach in Summer 2017.

Among her other duties with the program, Carlisle Reske spearheads the development of walk-on rowers, teaching proper mechanics and racing through workouts, drills and training plans. Off the water, she has helped launch the annual Hadley Chase Regatta and enhanced team operations in part through events and increased alumni relations.

In Summer 2018, she briefly trekked north to Vermont serving as an assistant coach at Craftsbury Sculling Center. Carlisle Reske worked with youth, masters and competitive adult rowers in small and large group sessions, conducted video review and taught skills such as boat comfortability and general technique.

Before transitioning to her full-time assistant role at UMass, she was also a program coach at Northampton Community Rowing. Carlisle Reske directed youth and adult rowers plus regattas, created training plans and ran practices.

Her first leap into the coaching realm came in 2011, beginning a span of three summers at Dee Campbell Rowing Center in her hometown of Alexandria, Virginia. She led the advanced sculling program and developed novice, intermediate, varsity and master’s rowers. She later served a brief stint at Old Dominion Boat Club (2014).

Carlisle Reske rowed collegiately for four years at nearby Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts. The two-time captain and All-American enjoyed a decorated career in part as an ECAC All-Star (2015), NEWMAC All-Conference pick (2015), four-time NEWMAC Scholar-Athlete, and recipient of the Smith College Golden Oar Award (2015).

A US Rowing Level II certified coach, Carlisle Reske is a two-time graduate of Smith. In 2015 she completed a bachelor of arts in elementary education and liberal studies. She went on to add a master’s degree in 2018 with a concentration in exercise science and coaching.