SAL
ASSENZA - BOYS' VARSITY COACH
Updated: September 2, 2009
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Sal Assenza
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 American Rowing 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 seventh year at Walt Whitman. After two seasons with the freshmen and and a year as the varsity lightweight coach, Coach Assenza is now in his fourth year as the Head men's coach. In 2006 Coach Assenza's varsity eight won the Washington area city championships. Coach Assenza was awarded the Washington Post's Rowing Coach-of-the-Year in the same year.
Mr. Assenza teaches American history and government to ninth and tenth graders at Thomas Wootton High School in Rockville, Maryland.
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