women's crew Coaches

Nick Hughes has been the Director of the St. Lawrence University rowing program since its inception in 1999 and led the transition from club to varsity status.  Hughes' guidance has been instrumental in establishing the Saints as one of the premier crew programs in the East. Hughes directed St. Lawrence to the NCAA Championships for the third straight season in 2010.  

Hughes' 2010 Saints team earned their third consecutive Liberty League title, a second place finish at the NYS Championships and a sixth place finish at ECAC's.  His team climbed to as high as No. 4 in the national polls before closing the year at No. 7 in Division III rowing. 

Hughes and his team were rewarded for all of their efforts, as the Varsity Eight boat earned Liberty League 'Crew of the Year" honors, while Hughes and his staff were named Coaching Staff of the Year by the conference for the third consecutive year. 

In 2008, Hughes guided the Saints to their first ever Liberty League Championship, where the Varsity Eight boat took the gold medal for the first time in program history. The team's performance throughout the season helped them earn their first ever NCAA bid, where the Saints' IV placed second in the petite final of the Varsity Eight race, while the 2V placed fourth in the third final.

Returning to her alma mater, Amanda Dudley '08 joined the St. Lawrence Crew staff in the fall of 2010 as an assistant coach.

Dudley, a Henderson Harbor, NY native, rowed all four of her collegiate years for the Saints and stroked the Varsity 8+ boat that was named 2008 Liberty League Crew of the Year and placed 5th at the NCAA Division III Rowing Championships. 

After graduating from St. Lawrence, Dudley worked as an assistant rowing coach at Lake Braddock Secondary School and then William & Mary Rowing Club, both in Virginia.  While assistant coaching, she also completed her student-teaching at Toano Middle School in Toano, VA and received her Master's in Education at The College of William & Mary in 2010. 

Zachary Slouka, a 2011 graduate of Trinity College, joined the St. Lawrence Crew staff in January of 2012. 

Slouka, a Brewster, NY native, was a four-year rower for the Banthams.  He helped the second Varsity 8+ win gold at the New England Rowing Championships in 2010, followed by silver in 2011.  He was voted Most Fit Rower in his senior year. 

After graduating from Trinity, Slouka relocated to Minot, North Dakota where he assisted in flood relief and natural gas work. 

Alison Del Rossi will serve as the men's and women's Crew Faculty/Staff Mentor for the 2010-11 season.  

Del Rossi graduated summa cum laude from the University of Delaware, with a double major in Economics and English, and she received a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania. Prior to coming to SLU in Fall 1999, Alison served a year as a Junior Staff Economist at the President's Council of Economic Advisers, and she was an assistant professor at the University of Wyoming. Her teaching and research interests currently include law and economics, public finance and government behavior, risky choices, and the economics of higher education. Alison enjoys many North Country activities, including playing ice hockey and cross-country skiing in the winter and rowing with a women's eight, hiking, and biking in the summer.