Galen Bernick - Associate Coach - Staff Directory - Oregon State University Athletics

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Galen Bernick

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Associate Coach
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Galen Bernick was hired as Associate Coach of Oregon State men's rowing on Oct. 22, 2025, bringing with him extensive coaching experience and an elite competitive pedigree to Corvallis, which includes multiple years coaching high-level programs on the East Coast and a background as a two-time U.S. National Team athlete.

Prior to OSU, Bernick coached at RowHouse Edgewater and Mile High Rowing in Denver, Colo. Before that, he spent five years helping build the junior rowing program at Community Rowing Inc. in Boston, Mass., where he worked his way up from assistant coach to boatman and eventually head boys coach, a position he held for two years.

Bernick's coaching resume also includes positions with Harvard University's lightweight men's rowing program from 2019-21 and Boston College men's rowing from 2018-19 and 2021-22. He also served as head sculling coach at Annapolis Juniors Rowing during the summer of 2024.

As a competitor, the Tempe, Ariz., native represented the United States on the national team twice and spent four years rowing at Mercyhurst University, where he graduated with a degree in philosophy in 2018.