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SAL ASSENZA - BOYS' VARSITY COACH
Updated: September 14, 2006

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Sal Assenza began rowing as a freshman at Franklin D. Roosevelt High School in Hyde Park, New York. While at FDR, Coach Assenza won back-to-back New York State Championships and stroked the crew to the National Championships the following summer.

While attending George Washington as an undergraduate, Coach Assenza stroked the freshmen eight to its highest finish at the Collegian National Championships (IRA). As a senior, Coach Assenza’s crew was the runner-up National Champions in the Varsity 4 event at the IRA. After college, Coach Assenza rowed for the New York Athletic Club where he stroked the crew to the Senior National Championship.

During his time at Marist College's Graduate School of Education, Coach Assenza was a graduate assistant under Scott Sanford's crew that placed 16th at the IRA.

This is Coach Assenza’s fourth year at Walt Whitman. After two seasons with the freshmen and last year as the varsity lightweight, this is Coach Assenza’s first with the 1st Varsity Eight.

Coach Assenza teaches American history in the Ninth Grade Academy at Wheaton High School.

 

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