University of Massachusets Athletics
Rowing
Ricky Flowers
- Title:
- Assistant Coach
- Email:
- rachelleflow@umass.edu
University of Massachusetts head rowing coach Eric Carcich announced the addition of assistant coach Rachelle “Ricky” Flowers to the program staff in September 2019.
Flowers comes to the Minutewomen after a four-year competitive career at Wesleyan University (Connecticut), where she co-captained the Cardinals from 2017-19, was a CRCA All-American (2018) and All-NESCAC in her final two seasons. She helped Wesleyan’s Collegiate 8+ to victory at the 2016 Head of the Charles and followed that with silver a year later.
Her competitive accolades also include a stint representing the United States, as Flowers was part of the fifth-place Women’s 4- crew at the 2018 World University Rowing Championships in Shanghai, China.
As a junior at Wesleyan, Flowers received the Jones MVP Award, given to a Cardinals student-athlete to commemorate outstanding achievement in women’s sports.
She spent Summer 2016 at Boston’s Community Rowing, giving instruction to both youth and adult rowers on fundamentals and tactics of the sport before joining the Riverside U23 team in nearby Cambridge for Summer 2017.
The native of Marblehead, Massachusetts double majored in neuroscience and behavior along with psychology while at Wesleyan, earning her Bachelor’s Degree in 2019. Flowers was twice tabbed National All-Academic and also earned CRCA National Scholar-Athlete laurels in 2018.
Flowers comes to the Minutewomen after a four-year competitive career at Wesleyan University (Connecticut), where she co-captained the Cardinals from 2017-19, was a CRCA All-American (2018) and All-NESCAC in her final two seasons. She helped Wesleyan’s Collegiate 8+ to victory at the 2016 Head of the Charles and followed that with silver a year later.
Her competitive accolades also include a stint representing the United States, as Flowers was part of the fifth-place Women’s 4- crew at the 2018 World University Rowing Championships in Shanghai, China.
As a junior at Wesleyan, Flowers received the Jones MVP Award, given to a Cardinals student-athlete to commemorate outstanding achievement in women’s sports.
She spent Summer 2016 at Boston’s Community Rowing, giving instruction to both youth and adult rowers on fundamentals and tactics of the sport before joining the Riverside U23 team in nearby Cambridge for Summer 2017.
The native of Marblehead, Massachusetts double majored in neuroscience and behavior along with psychology while at Wesleyan, earning her Bachelor’s Degree in 2019. Flowers was twice tabbed National All-Academic and also earned CRCA National Scholar-Athlete laurels in 2018.
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