Holly Hatton
Varsity Girls Coach

Holly Hatton, who coached rowing for the U.S. Olympic team in 1988 and 1992, has coached at the collegiate level since 1983 and coached U.S. boats at the World Championships in 1983, 1985, 1989, 1990, and 1991.  She joined the BHRA Program in the Fall of 2009 and has  been appointed Program Director for the 2010-2011 season,  as well serving as Head Coach for the Bromfield AB Womens Team.

A silver medalist at the 1978 World Championship in the four-plus-coxswain event and a bronze medalist in the 1979 World Championship in the eights, Hatton was also the coxswain chosen for the 1980 Olympic team eight, which won a gold medal at the Swiss and Dutch National Championship. Unfortunately, the U.S. boycotted the 1980 Olympic Games after the former Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan, so Hatton never got to compete in the Games, at which the U.S. Women’s Eight would have been a medal favorite.

Under Hatton’s leadership as the women’s novice coach at Harvard/Radcliffe from 1983 to 1996, the first and second eight boats made the finals at the Eastern Sprints every year. Her team won the national championship three times.

As the head coach of the Boston University Women’s Crew Team from 1996 to 2008, Hatton led the team into six NCAA championship events. Her team finished in the top 20 crews in America 12 times, and reached the finals of the Eastern Sprints 11 times.

In 2006, Hatton was named the Collegiate Rowing Coaches Association’s Regional Coach of the Year. In 1991, Holly was inducted into the Rowing Hall of Fame.

Holly brings a depth of experience rarely found at the high school level and we are extremely fortunate to have her as our Program Director. Since Holly Hatton joined the program, Bromfield AB has made significant achievements in the Women’s Program.  In her first season at Bromfield AB, the Women’s Team captured  an overall 2nd Place Finish in the 2010 MPSRA State Championships and the Womens V1 Eight took first at the MA State Championships. The Varsity Women’s Double took the silver medal at the SRAA Scholastic National Regatta in Saratoga, NY and qualified for the US Rowing Youth National Championships in Cincinnati.

In the Fall of 2010, under Holly Hatton’s leadership, the Bromfield AB Team took their first ever overall 2nd Place Finish at the Massachusetts State Rowing Championship.  In the spring of 2011, the team continued its winning streak, again taking the overall 2nd Place Finish at the Massachusetts State Rowing Championship.  The end of a remarkable season was capped off with a second trip to the National Championships, with the Womens Double capturing the Silver Medal.

In the spring of 2012, under Holly’s leadership, the Bromfield Acton-Boxborough Rowing Team qualified 19 rowers for the USRowing National Championships in Oak Ridge, TN.  The Womens 8+, the Women’s 4+ and the Men’s 4+ all qualified, with the Womens 8 winning the C Final at Nationals and the Men’s 4 improving on their previous finish and qualifying for a place in the B Finals. Two members of the Womens 8 received invitations to join the Junior World Team.