Staff Directory

Michael Medaugh

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Assistant Coach
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Michael Medaugh joined the Oregon State Women’s Rowing coaching staff in October 2026 from Chattanooga, Tenn., where he served as the Head Masters Rowing Coach for Lookout Rowing Club and as an assistant for Chattanooga Junior Rowing.

Under his leadership, Lookout Rowing Club won seven medals at the 2026 US Rowing Indoor National Championships, achieved seven victories or podium finishes at the 2026 Masters Southeastern Regionals, placed ninth out of 135 teams at Head of the Hooch Regatta in 2025 and claimed a team victory at the 2025 Music City Head Race.

Prior to his time in Tennessee, Medaugh was an Assistant Juniors Rowing Coach at Duxbury Maritime School in Duxbury, Mass., which came on the heels of a five-year collegiate rowing career at Harvard, where he worked his way into a varsity seat after walking on in 2017.

A coxswain, he finished second at Head of the Charles Regatta in 2019 with the Crimson varsity four, adding an eighth-place finish with the varsity eight in 2021.

A graduate of Harvard with a degree in Neuroscience, he worked for Moderna during the scale up of a cancer vaccine and has both traveled and volunteered across South America, Africa and Eastern Europe.