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Shaker Heights, Ohio
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| Last College:
University of Tampa, 1992
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| Position:
Head Coach
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| Experience:
2nd year at Miami
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With a keen knowledge and understanding of the sport itself, Robbie Tenenbaum is entering his second spring at the helm of the University of Miami rowing program. Tenenbaum has feverishly spent the last year gathering his staff, and helping to recruit the best student-athletes possible in order to bring Miami rowing to the top of the collegiate rowing world.
Last season, Tenenbaum helped the Hurricanes to numerous top times and several best finishes in just his first season. He was responsible for UM capturing one of their best finishes in Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) competition while also pushing the Hurricanes towards a shot at the medal during the annual Aramark Central/South Sprints in Oak Ridge, Tennessee.
Tenenbaum captured an impressive 14-6 first-year record in dual-racing, while also helping the Hurricanes to compete in one of the nation's preeminent events during the fall of 2008 - racing under the lights in a nighttime extravaganza at the Head of the Oklahoma Regatta.
Tenenbaum took over the program after spending the 2006-07 season with the University of Washington rowing program in Seattle.
Prior to that, he spent eight years as an assistant coach at The Ohio State University in Columbus. It was an easy transition for Tenenbaum as a native of Shaker Heights, Ohio--a sub-section of nearby Cleveland.
At OSU, Tenenbaum earned the Collegiate Rowing Coaches Association (CRCA) award for Assistant Coach of the Year in 2006. That prestigious award is designed to recognize an assistant coach who had success success during the recent season, while also demonstrating great team improvement from the prior campaign. That's in addition to fulfilling the team's potential and demonstrating a high-level of professionalism and integrity as a coach.
Tenenbaum was honored with the CRCA Central Region Assistant Coach of the Year honor in back-to-back years for 2005 and '06.
Throughout his time as a highly qualified assistant and head coach, Tenenbaum has coached highly successful crews who are dedicated to the ultimate goal of performance as a team, while nurturing a program where women can train for individual peak performances.
Tenenbaum joined the Buckeye staff during the summer of 1998. His primary responsibilities included overseeing the second varsity eight, assisting with the varsity squad and recruiting. Under his instruction at Ohio State, the second varsity eight boat finished fourth in its Grand Final in both the 2005 and 2006 NCAA Championships. The Buckeyes won both of their Grand Finals at the 2006 Big Ten and Central Region championships and had a seven-race win streak during the regular season.
In 2005, the second varsity eight also finished first at the Big Ten Championships. Tenenbaum helped guide the Ohio State first varsity four to a sixth-place finish at the 2004 NCAA Championships and a fourth-place finish in 2003.
In addition to university coaching, Tenenbaum was an assistant coach for the United States Junior National Rowing Team from 1996-2001. In 1996, his Junior Women's eight took fourth at the World Rowing Championships in Scotland; a year later he was an assistant coach for the Junior Women's eight that finished third at the World Rowing Championships in Belgium. In 1999, he was an assistant with the Junior Women's eight that finished second in Bulgaria.
He was an assistant during the summers of 2000 and 2001 when the Junior Women's four won gold and silver medals in Croatia and Germany respectively. Tenenbaum was named the head coach for the U.S. Junior National team in October 2001. His junior women's eight won a bronze medal in Lithuania in the summer of 2002 and a silver medal at the Junior World Championships in Athens, Greece in 2003.
Robbie Tenenbaum earned his B.A. degree in Marketing from the University of Tampa in 1992. He brings nothing less than a wealth of experience and dedication to the UM family that the Hurricanes hope will produce championship reality in the coming years.
