Head Coach - Charlie DiSilvestro, 29th year

2021 Finish

• Team - 5th at MAAC
• Varsity 8 - 5th at MAAC
• 2nd Varsity 8 - 7th at MAAC
• Varsity 4 - 4th at MAAC

Returning Varsity 8+ Athletes - 6

2022 Seniors - 4

2022 Outlook - "We are looking forward to our spring season, as we start our season seeing two conference teams, Jacksonville and Stetson, during our Spring training trip! We are currently looking forward to the warmer weather Florida will bring, but we are grateful for the speed we are gaining on the ergs. This team is doing an excellent job of working together to help one another achieve their individual goals leading us to our overarching team goals.

"We are excited and hungry to return to the competition stage as our athletes have been putting in the work on the ergs and in the weight room!"
-Assistant Coach Haley Abrams

Head Coach - Charlie DiSilvestro, 28th year

2020 Finish

• N/A

Returning Varsity 8+ Athletes - N/A

2021 Seniors - 1

2021 Outlook - "Winter Break has been lengthy and frigid in Des Moines, Iowa. After ten weeks without seeing our rowers, campus is now bustling with every Drake athletic team currently practicing for their seasons. Rowers returned on February 1st, and have been putting strong effort into our first week of fitness assessments. Our spring looks promising. We are navigating lots of facility shifts, sharing spaces in the Athletics Building with all Drake athletic teams. We cannot wait for the Des Moines river to thaw so we can make our way over to the boathouse to start putting in some miles!"
-Head Coach Charlie DiSilvestro

Head Coach - Charlie DiSilvestro, 27th year

2019 Finish

• Varsity 8 - 4th at MAAC
• 2nd Varsity 8 - 4th at MAAC
• Varsity 4 - 3rd at MAAC

Returning Varsity 8+ Athletes - 5

2020 Seniors - 3

2020 Outlook - "I’m very excited to see our team race this spring. Our river has been so much better than last year due to us losing most of the year from flooding in 2018-19. Our winter training camp in Natchitoches, LA was one of the best we ever had and our spring regatta schedule is one of the most challenging to date. Even though our team will be very young I’m confident they’re going to row with the maturity needed to be a very competitive team."
-Head Coach Charlie DiSilvestro

Head Coach - Charlie DiSilvestro, 26th year

2018 Finish

• Team - 5th at MAAC
• Varsity 8 - 3rd at MAAC
• 2nd Varsity 8 - 6th at MAAC
• Varsity 4 - 6th at MAAC

Returning Varsity 8+ Athletes - 5

2019 Seniors - 6

2019 Outlook - "We’re excited to see all of our hard work from the Fall pay off this Spring. Our river has presented us with some challenges this Fall, which have unfortunately put us inside on the ergs for the majority of the season. However, this has helped the team become stronger and fitter than they've ever been. We’re really excited to see how far all of this hard work takes us in the spring. With all of this potential, and a group of very tough Freshmen, we're hoping to improve upon our 5th place finish at conference from last year."
-Head Coach Charlie DiSilvestro

Head Coach - Charlie DiSilvestro, 25th year

2017 Finish

• Varsity 8 - 4th at MAAC
• 2nd Varsity 8 - 7th at MAAC
• Varsity 4 - 6th at MAAC

Returning Varsity 8+ Athletes - 7

2018 Seniors - 6

2018 Outlook - "The team and coaches are all looking forward to seeing what we can do this coming spring. We produced some good results early last season, but did not end up with the outcome we were hoping for at conference. The coaches have changed up the training program a bit this winter, in hopes of producing the winning results we saw early last season, but later in the spring. We can't wait to be able to put in some more work on the water, and see all of our hard work pay off in the spring."
-Assistant Coach Sarah Dierksen

Head Coach - Charlie DiSilvestro, 24th year

2016 Finish

• Varsity 8 - 4th at MAAC
• 2nd Varsity 8 - 3rd at MAAC
• Varsity 4 - 4th at MAAC

Returning Varsity 8+ Athletes - 5

2017 Seniors - 3

2017 Outlook - "We are very optimistic as we enter our Spring season. As our team continues to grow and get faster, we hope to improve on our 3rd place finish from conference last season. The team is really looking forward to seeing all of our hard work pay off, and to seeing what we can do on the racecourse."
-Head Coach Charlie DiSilvestro

Head Coach - Charlie DiSilvestro, 20th year

2012 Finish

• Team - MAAC Champs
• Varsity 8 - MAAC Champs
• 2nd Varsity 8 - 2nd at MAAC
• Varsity 4 - 2nd at MAAC, Dad Vail Champs

Returning Varsity 8+ Athletes - 5

2013 Seniors - 4

2013 Outlook - "With women’s rowing going to the AQ this year we’ve been stepping up our training in hopes to be the first team from the MAAC to represent our conference at NCAA’s. Our team won the conference championship by a bow ball in 2012 so we know that we can’t sit back and assume the conference championship will be ours this year. Even though we lost a great class of seniors last year, I’m very proud of this year’s senior leadership. Their vision for the team’s direction has been great."
-Head Coach Charlie DiSilvestro

• Drake: NCAA Medalist Megan Hinkle Joins Drake Rowing Staff

• Drake Rowing Prepares for First Race of Season

• Drake Rowing Team Finds Ways to Train

• Drake: Rowing Welcomes 10 High School Student-Athletes to the Program

• Drake: Turner Hired as Rowing Assistant Coach

• Drexel: Rowing Readies for Murphy Cup Regatta Saturday on the Schuylkill

• Drake Rowing Adds Six High School Student-Athletes for 2018-19

• Drake: Bayliss Hired as Rowing Assistant Coach
• Drake: Rowing Adds Three Student-Athletes for 2017-18

• Drake rowing team cares for dogs that fell in freezing river

• MAAC Championships

• MAAC Championships