A national team rower and member of the 2008 and 2004 Olympic teams, Liane Malcos enters her first season as part of the Community Rowing coaching staff as the Girls Novice coach in the spring of 2009.

Liane’s prior coaching spans two years. In 2004-2005, she coached the MIT Novice Women and Riverside Boat Club master’s men. More recently, she currently assists the women of the High Performance Group at Riverside.

A native of Carlisle, MA, Liane learned to row as a freshman in high school, at Groton School, and won the US Rowing Youth Invitational her junior year in the 4+. She competed for Brown University in four NCAA National Championships regattas and was a member of the winning 1999 and 2000 NCAA National Championship teams. In 1999, she won a bronze medal for the USA at the World Under-23 Championships in the women’s four without coxswain. Liane earned a bachelor’s of arts degree in Biology from Brown in 2000.

After Brown, she worked at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research doing immunology and genetics research, before moving to New Jersey to train with the U.S. National team from 2003-2008. She competed in sweep events from 2003-2005, winning the 2003 World Championships in the women’s four without coxswain, being named a sweep alternate for the women’s eight at the 2004 Athens games, and earning fourth place in the women’s eight at the 2005 World Championships. In 2005, Liane switched to sculling and competed in the women’s quadruple sculls from 2006-2007 at World Championships. Liane was later named a sculling alternate for the 2008 Beijing Games. Most recently, Liane earned a silver medal in the Championship women’s single at the 2008 Head of the Charles Regatta.