Peter Steenstra\u00a0was named head rowing coach at Bates in March 2009, after stints as assistant and interim head coach. In his first full year as head rowing coach at Bates, Steenstra led the women\u2019s rowing team to second place at the 2009 NCAA Division III Women\u2019s Rowing Championships, the highest team finish by any Bates team in an NCAA championship. The team matched that feat at the 2010 NCAA Championships, repeating as the national runner-up, then did it for the third year in a row in 2011, coming closer than ever to the team\u2019s goal of an NCAA Championship. In the summer of 2009, Steenstra led the men\u2019s rowing team on a trip to compete in the prestigious Henley Royal Regatta in Henley, England, after the men earned a No. 3 final Northeast regional ranking in the spring season.<\/p>\n
Steenstra served as Bates\u2019 assistant rowing coach during the 2007-08 academic year, then was named interim coach in July 2008. Steenstra helped coach both the Bobcat men and women to successful years while also acting as the programs\u2019 recruiting coordinator. The women\u2019s team finished fifth at the 2008 NCAA Division III Women\u2019s Rowing Championships in their second straight appearance at nationals, while the men\u2019s varsity eight ranked No. 5 in New England.<\/p>\n
Under Steenstra\u2019s leadership, both the men\u2019s and women\u2019s rowing programs have continued to flourish. The women\u2019s first varsity eight finished second out of 32 boats at the Head of the Charles in the fall of 2008, and were ranked No. 3 in the Spring 2009 preseason College Rowing Coaches Association\/USRowing preseason rankings.<\/p>\n
Steenstra has vast experience in rowing, beginning with his career on the men\u2019s varsity eight at Hobart College, where he graduated in 1996. Steenstra coached the men\u2019s and women\u2019s novice crews at Colby College for three years, then was the head coach of the men\u2019s and women\u2019s crew club at The Ohio State University from 1999 to 2006. Steenstra also coached at Cornell University, first as varsity assistant coach of the heavyweight men and then as the assistant women\u2019s coach, while earning a master of science degree in sports management from Ithaca College.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":704,"featured_media":768,"template":"","class_list":["post-214","faculty-profile","type-faculty-profile","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/faculty-profile\/214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/faculty-profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/faculty-profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/704"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/faculty-profile\/214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1612,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/faculty-profile\/214\/revisions\/1612"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}