Bailey-Greene Named Toledo’s First Head Women’s Rowing Coach

The University of Toledo added women’s rowing as a varsity sport this past summer and the institution has named Chris Bailey-Greene as the programs first head coach.

Bailey-Greene will lead the Rockets with their first competition season being the fall of 2025. Most recently he served as the associate head coach at Washington State University and has over 13 years of coaching experience. In order to create a team of passionate, invested student-athletes Bailey-Greene has been working from his first day on campus to assemble a core group of interested individuals.

“We have to get walk on athletes involved as soon as possible. I’m a very educational, developmental focused coach. I focus a lot on the fine details–making sure culture is supportive. I believe in the cultivating holistic athletes. We will set realistic expectations and tangible goals and build it the right way.”

In addition to focusing heavily on sparking current students’ interest in joining the team, Bailey-Greene’s coaching and recruiting experience will serve him as he begins recruiting efforts.

“The recruiting side will be just as vital and that’s what I have a lot of experience in is making sure we’re reaching out and telling youth programs around the country who we are and what we represent. The administration at Toledo has been very supportive so far to assist as much as they can.”

Bailey-Greene started coaching right out of college while he was perusing a master’s degree at the University of Cincinnati. He reached out to the club he rowed for, before his college racing career at Brown University, Cincinnati Jr Rowing Club.

“I never thought it would be my life path. I was studying criminology,” remembered Bailey-Greene. “I also ended up getting a masters in clinical psychology so I took a three-year break from coaching. When I moved back to Cincinnati in 2014, I started doing therapy work and then shifted gears and decided I wanted to do both. Rowing just kind of took over and I got a full-time coaching gig in Ohio at Row America and just kept elevating.”

Prior to Washington State Bailey-Greene spent time as an assistant for the women’s rowing team at Gonzaga, the Oregon State men’s rowing team, and the Yale’s men’s rowing team.

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