He also is someone who understands how to motivate teams to compete. He taught me a lot in that sense. I asked him one time after he got back from a trip to Florida if the team had fun. He said, 'You don't understand. When you put a crew on the water for four hours a day, you push them right to the edge.
Some coaches go too far and they suffer.
Other coaches don't find it comfortable and they back off. He put them right on the edge and held them there. Andreja Stevanovic, who rowed for Gladstone for four years and is now an assistant coach at Cal, said the new athletics director is a master at getting the most out of people. As an example, he came here with a totally disorganized crew in 1996 that finished ninth at the International Rowing Association National Championship Regatta. It was basically the same team from 1996 to 1997.