Barbara Kirch

Barbara Kirch started rowing with the Vesper Boat Club and then rowed at the University of Pennsylvania. She competed at the 1984 and 1988 Olympics in coxless pairs. Kirch won a silver medal in coxed fours at the 1982 World Championships and a bronze medal in double sculls at the 1987 Worlds. She was 1987 US Champion in both double and quad sculls.

Kirch later became a coach at Dartmouth College and then at U Penn, before become director of rowing and women’s varsity coach at Peddie School in New Jersey. She also coached the US junior women at the World Junior Championships in 1996-98. In 2010 she was named to the FISA Youth Rowing Commission.