Athletic Details - Brooks School: Coeducational Private School in North Andover, MA

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Rowing at Brooks School on beautiful Lake Cochichewick has a rich and successful history. Established when the school first opened in 1926, the boys crew program instantly became a strong force and continues to be a leader in the interscholastic league. Our rowers often go on to row in college and among our alumni, we have several national team and Olympic rowers.

A spring sport at Brooks, the rowing season begins in late February and concludes with the New England Interscholastic Regatta in May. With an elite-quality fleet of four-person racing shells in our two boathouses (eight boats for boys and eight boats for girls) right on the campus property, our state-of-the-art rowing tanks, ergometers and a weight room, the crew program is well supplied to provide a top-notch racing experience. A unique feature to rowing at Brooks School is the strong tradition of support between the boys and girls teams. The crews share a boathouse, sometimes organizing time trials between the squads, and the athletes learn to respect the efforts of novice as well as veteran rowers of both genders. The coaches are dedicated and experienced athletes themselves with a love of rowing, competition and the outdoors.

Rowers may elect to stay in shape during the fall and winter seasons through competing in their choice of fall and winter sports, while older athletes occasionally opt for personal conditioning through the fall and winter club program. Most rowers begin their rowing career as novices upon arrival to our campus and while we do have an increasing number of rowers exposed to crew through local clubs or eighth-grade rowing programs, we build our teams on the shoulders of students who are dedicated, show a passion for hard work and love to compete. At present, we have former athletes rowing in the following collegiate programs: Navy, MIT, Trinity, Bates and Holy Cross.

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Christopher Smith

Program Director

Christopher "Tote" Smith has been teaching, coaching and managing boys' dorms at boarding schools for 20 years, following a twelve-year career in corporate finance at Alex. Brown and its successor firms. Before moving to Brooks in 2016, Smith led the math department and rowing team at Salisbury School in Connecticut. At Brooks, his work in the math department aims to extend student interest and engagement at the intersection of mathematics, data science and economics. Smith's afternoons are spent on Lake Cochichewick, where he is the director of rowing and boys 1st crew coach. His Winter Term courses have focused on the mechanics of Wall Street, the dangers of manipulation by statistics, and most recently the ancient pottery form of Raku. Smith lives on campus in Thorne House with his wife Kathy Palmer Smith '88 and their two labradoodles. Their three children, Nate Smith '18, Tobey Smith '20 and Laura Smith '22 are all recent graduates of Brooks.

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