Friends of Glastonbury Rowing, Inc.
Friends of Glastonbury Rowing, Inc.

Meet the Coaches

Steve Somosky: Head Coach Boys JV/Varsity
ssomosky@icloud.com

Steven Somosky, Jr., is the  Head Coach for the GHS Boys Team - Varsity, JV and Novices.  Coach Steve joined the GHS coaching staff in the Fall of 2011.  Steve rowed from 1980-1983 for Florida Institute of Technology (FIT) where he won three small college national championships, including the national team title championship in 1982. During his career at FIT, Steve won the Southern Intercollegiate Rowing Association (SIRA) Championships six times (Freshman Heavyweight Eight, Freshman Heavyweight Four, Varsity Lightweight Four (twice),and Varsity Lightweight Eight (twice). FIT also won the SIRA team title all four years Steve rowed. Additionally, Steve won the Dad Vail Regatta (small college nationalchampionship) in 1980 in the Freshman Heavyweight Eight and in 1982 in the Junior Varsity Heavyweight Eight. In 1983 he stroked the Varsity Lightweight eight to victory. Steve has also competed in the Head of the Charles Regatta while in college, and again in an alumni boat in 2015.

 

Conor Fearon: Head Coach Girls JV/Varsity
cfearon9@gmail.com

Conor started rowing in 2007 at GHS where he rowed on the team for 4 years. He received his varsity letter his Junior and Senior year, as well as earning two Hartwell awards during the spring season of his Junior and Senior years. For the last three years, Conor has rowed at Penn State. Freshman year he was in the Varsity Lightweight 4 that finished 6th at the ACRA National Championship. During his Sophomore and Junior years, Conor was in the Varsity Heavyweight 8 which has currently set Penn State’s 2k record on the water. While at PSU, he was elected captain his Junior year, as well as fundraising officer. Over the Summer of 2013, Conor ran his teams summer rowing program, helping recruit new students and teaching them how to row. He has also coached at Riverfront Recapture in Hartford with the high school age group camps. He will graduate from CCSU in May 2018 with a degree in Secondary Education in Physics.

 

Kate Hickes: Assistant Coach Girls Junior Varsity
kathleen.hickes@gmail.com

Kate started coxing as a freshman at Bucknell University, an NCAA Division 1 program. She coxed the freshman four to first place at the Murphy Cup and Mid-Atlantic Rowing championships her freshman year. Sophomore year, she coxed the Varsity Four to gold at the Patriot League Championship and silver at the Dad Vail Regatta. She coxed the Varsity Eight her junior and senior years to silver medals at the Patriot League Championships and silver medals at the Dad Vail Regatta. Her junior year, Kate coxed the Lightweight Eight to a bronze medal at the IRA National Championship, only tenths of a second behind Stanford and Radcliffe. Kate graduated from Bucknell University in May 2015 with a degree in International Relations and Spanish. In addition to coaching at Glastonbury, she was also the head coach of Central Connecticut Rowing over the summer. Kate is currently a full time sales manager for the Kraft Heinz Company out of Hartford, CT.

 

Sean Peoples: Assistant Coach Novice
speoples@bpslawyers.com

Sean was a novice men’s heavy weight 8 coxswain at Connecticut College and went on in his sophomore and and the fall of junior years to cox a J.V. heavy 4 and Varsity heavy 8.  In the spring of his senior year he was the coxswain of the Varsity light-weight 8 that won the New England Championship and a silver medal at the Dad Vail U.S. Small College Championship in Philadelphia in the Spring of 1983. Sean returned to coach a freshmen lightweight 8 and J.V. four at Connecticut College from 1983-84.  Sean was a substitute coxswain while attending graduate school at Columbia University in 1984-85.  He has coached various crews at Glastonbury High School from 2002 to the present.

Wendy Burnham: Assistant Coach Land

After many years as a “Crew Mom” and FOGRI board member, Wendy made the leap to learn to row at Riverfront Recapture, and immediately got hooked. A few years into rowing with the Riverfront Rec. team, she moved on to the Master’s Women's Racing team, primarily competing in 8’s and 4's. In 2017, her 4+ won 2nd place at the USRowing Northeast/Mid-Atlantic Masters Regional Championships in Lowell, MA. She went on to compete at the USRowing Masters National Championships in Oak Ridge, TN, where the Riverfront Recapture Racing team won the overall points award. Wendy is super excited to be working with both the boys and girls crew teams as a land coach. She brings plenty of enthusiasm, and a love of rowing (and - believe it or not - erging!) to the GHS rowing program.

Betsy Davis: Assistant Land Coach

Betsy was active in GHS crew 2006-2014 as a mother of two rowers on the boys crew team.  She was a dock master for years, was on FOGRI for 7 years and was active on the Glastonbury Riverfront Park and boathouse committee.  She began her own rowing career at Hartford Riverfront program in 2017.  Betsy is a psychotherapist and dietitian who works with adolescents and their families who are struggling with eating disorders.  She also specializes in sports nutrition.

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