Cindy Boyack

Cindy began her rowing career in college, wooed away from the swim team with promises of still being able to eat a lot.  She rowed for UMASS, Amherst, and stroked the Varsity 8 to a silver medal at the Dad Vail regatta in 1981.  In the summer of 1980, she won silver in the Women’s National Collegiate Championships in the eight, with the Pioneer Valley Rowing Association.   She rowed for University of Toronto, on Lake Ontario, while in medical school. Her major achievement then was being able to row, and still get decent grades!  After a hiatus of more than 20 years, she returned to rowing with PCRA, and has happily been a member of this fine rowing community ever since.  When not rowing, she can be found playing outside in many other ways, doing martial arts, and, of course, enjoying a good meal!  

CHIP COOPER

Dan barrett

Inspired in 2003 by his daughter Kelsey, who had walked on to the Bates College Rowing Team in 2001, Dan took up erging without ever having touched a rowing shell.  In the ensuing years, he tallied over 5.5 million erg meters.

Following retirement from L.L.Bean in Spring of 2018, Dan finally moved his rowing outdoors in a 17-foot double-slide-seat Whitehall.  In it he has explored parts of Saco Bay, and hopes eventually to do the same in Casco Bay.

Looking for kindred spirits, Dan contacted PCRA and became a volunteer launch driver during its 2018 season.  One by one, he persuaded several PCRA members to join him in his Whitehall.  While providing each guest rower with a taste of ocean rowing, neophyte Dan extracted valuable rowing advice.

After the 2018 season, and encouraged by PCRA launch drivers Tim and Carla Yount, Dan applied to and was accepted by Head of the Charles Regatta as a launch driver in its 2018 event. He has repeated the role in each successive HOCR.

Leading into 2019, Dan converted a salvaged 4 seat section of a former PCRA 8 into a dry land trainer for PCRA’s Learn To Row.  You can watch Dan’s work in action here.

When not engaged in rowing activities, Dan finds time for road cycling, hiking and snowshoeing, and puttering.

Jennifer Southard

Jen joined PCRA in the winter of 2009 through the indoor erging sessions and at the suggestion of a PCRA board member/coach entered the Crash-B competition in Boston after about a month of erging (although wouldn't necessarily do that again). She loves being out on the water and all three of her children have learned to row through PCRA.  Jen lives in Portland and works for the Maine Community Foundation.

Mary Ellen Rogers

May Ellen began rowing in 2004 with Community Rowing, Inc. in Boston and immediately fell in love with the sport.  She has rowed with Essex Rowing Club in Methuen, MA and joined PCRA in 2012.  Mary Ellen believes every day on the water in Casco Bay is a gift. While not a huge fan of erging, the camaraderie with crew mates makes the experience encouraging and fun, really. Mary Ellen is Senior Counsel with the TD Bank legal team based in South Portland.