"Not honest, plays huge favorites. Runs us into the ground. She takes credit for the wins, we players get the loses."

"Although Carrie tries her best, she has favorites and doesn’t create a fair way to climb the rankings within the team. She also avoids conflict at all costs, so if you confront her about an issue, don’t expect it to be solved, expect run-around half-responses and excuses. She is generally understanding and welcoming to some issues athletes have (although is she doesn’t like you, she isn’t as understanding). She preaches a lot about team culture but does nothing to actually build this said culture. When it comes to her coaching style, she’s very hands off. Don’t expect a lot of technique coaching from her. She’s a nice enough person, but would probably not recommend this program to a friend. "

"Often ridiculed athletes for not trying if they achieved a less than optimal result"

"I can agree that Coach Dan is very passionate about the sport of rowing, but he isn’t respectful to the majority of athletes on his team. I have personally been told to “shut the hell up”, and have heard other girls experiences with him over things I don’t agree that a coach should discuss because it crosses a boundary (weight comments to rowers and coxs, calling them names, and more). He was very nice when he first came to Kansas, but something changed very recently and I’ve never had a coach be so disrespectful to athletes both to their face and behind their back."

"Not extremely gracious when it comes to mistakes. She is intense, especially when it comes to novice rowers. It’s hard way to be introduced to the program sometimes. Very knowledgeable but doesn’t always explain her thought process and that leaves inexperienced rowers to fill in the blanks as far as seatings go. Overall an effective, but intimidating, face of the program."

"Very knowledgeable about rowing but doesn’t seem to care about the personal lives of his towers and never asks how things are doing. Also says that it’s not his job to motivate us and puts a lot of blame onto his towers when things don’t go well"

"He definitely knows his knowledge when it comes to rowing but he lies to rowers and sugar coats everything and can be very quick to place blame. Also favors people that kiss up to him in a way that I have NEVER EVER seen before. Also never asks us about our personal lives and seems to just look at us as numbers "

"Does not have enough experience in the sport to be a head coach. Is good at the organizational and logistical side of college athletics but does not add value to the program in terms of knowing how to coach athletes to get better at the sport. Has a hard time communicating effectively with athletes, and because of her lack of athleticism, it can sometimes be hard to take her seriously and respect what she is saying. Is a good person but not a good coach and would be better fit being involved elsewhere in college athletics. I have had some conversations that are negative and left me with a bad taste in my mouth and I am not the only one. Some coaching decisions made are confusing to understand and often no explanation is given as to why that decision was made. "

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