Becky Woods

HEAD COACH NORDIC SKIING
Becky Woods

A two-time EISA Coach of the Year, Becky Woods '89 has been the head Nordic skiing coach at Bates since 1994. A native of Auburn, Maine, she has coached four All-America winners, including Sylvan Ellefson '09, who was fourth in the 10K freestyle at the 2008 NCAA Championships.

During her collegiate career at Bates, she was a two-time captain, participated in three NCAA Championships and was a member of the All-East team. Woods received the Auburn-Lewiston Sports Hall of Fame President's Award in 1996 and has served on the NCAA skiing rules comittee since 1998.

 

Email: rwoods@bates.edu

Office Phone: 207.786.6339

Martin Benes

ASSISTANT COACH NORDIC SKIING
Martin Benes

Martin Benes '07 returns to Bates, where he was a four-year member of the team and served as co-captain his senior year. After departing Bates with a B.A. in Classical and Medieval Studies, he returned to his home club in California where he coached junior skiers at the regional and national levels.

Last winter Martin returned to New England as an assistant with the Dartmouth College Ski Team. He returned to California this past summer to continue working with the juniors he has coached through two Junior Nationals.

Martin is glad to rejoin the Bates team and is looking forward to working with a talented group of athletes this winter. Off the trails, Martin will be helping out Coach Flynn on the links as the Golf team assistant.

Email: mbenes@bates.edu

Office Phone: 207.755.5954

Bob Flynn

ASSISTANT COACH NORDIC SKIING
Bob Flynn

Coach Flynn posesses a impressive history in the Bates Athletics department through his continuous, untiring involvement for more than 40 years.

He was head skiing coach at Bates from 1968 to 1990 and was instrumental in the program's move to Division I competition in 1972, and in bringing the 1976 NCAA Skiing Championships to Bates. Flynn was also head baseball coach from 1991 to 1999. He is a member of the Lewiston-Auburn Sports Hall of Fame, the Maine Baseball Hall of Fame and the Maine Ski Hall of Fame.

In addition to Skiing and Baseball, in 2008 Flynn also returned to the helm as the Head Coach of Men's and Women's Golf, a position he held previously from 1990 to 1998.

Email: rflynn@bates.edu

Office Phone: 207.786.6441

 

 

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Wednesday, May 28, 2008

Nicole The GREAT


Thought ya'll should see what was posted on the Bates Athletics page yesterday about our beloved captain! I am lost without you all in my love. ~ABNER



LEWISTON, Maine -- For the second year in a row, Bates College junior Nicole Ritchie was named to the Pocock Division III All-America First Team, the College Rowing Coaches Association has announced.
Ritchie (East Dummerston, Vt.) led the Bates women's rowing team to the NCAA Women's Rowing Championships for the second year in a row. Bates competes with seven other Division III teams and two at-large eights at nationals this Friday and Saturday at Lake Natoma in Gold River, Calif., the home course of the University of California at Berkeley. Bates finished third at nationals in 2007 and is currently ranked No. 3 by the CRCA and US Rowing.
Selection criteria for earning CRCA All-America honors include strength of schedule, regular season record, end of season regatta results, nomination rank, coaches' comments and 2,000-meter erg score.
Ritchie is also a NESCAC All-Academic honoree and a member of the Bates Nordic skiing team, for which she has been elected captain for the 2008-09 season!!!!!!!!

posted by Bates Nordic at 5:29 PM

1 Comments:

Anonymous Sylvan said...

you are my hero...see you in august bushwacker

May 29, 2008 9:45 PM  

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