Linda Muri has over 20 years of coaching experience covering all ages and levels of ability, as well as both sculling and sweep. She is currently in her eighth season coaching the freshman lightweights at Harvard. Prior to that, Muri served as the freshman lightweight coach at Cornell from 1998-2001. She began her collegiate coaching career in 1990 at Simmons

College. Before that, she coached at the Middlesex School and worked as a boat builder and designer in Concord, Mass.

On the international level, Muri spent two summers (2004-05) serving as an assistant coach on the U.S. Women’s Junior Team. She helped the women’s 4- and 2- earn places in the grand final at the junior world championships each year and coached both crews to gold medals at the U S national championships in 2005. Most recently she guided the U.S. U-23 men’s lightweight 4- to a seventh place finish at the 2006 U-23 World Championships, coached the same boat at the 2007 U-23 World Championships. She has also been a learn-to-row instructor with a variety of camps and clubs throughout the Northeast.
As a competitor, Muri was a nine-time U.S. national team member and is a three-time world champion. In 1994 she was a Sullivan Award semifinalist. Muri is also an 18-time U.S. national champion, has six Head of the Charles championships to her name and is the owner of two CRASH-B Sprints hammers.