Dave Sanderson has been tabbed to helm the women’s rowing program at Barry University, becoming the fourth head coach in program history.

He spent the past year as an assistant coach with the University of Miami women under head coach Debra Morgan, helping lead the Hurricanes to a fourth-place finish at the ACC Regatta.

Before coming to UM, Coach Sanderson was the assistant varsity coach for the Boston University men's crew. Sanderson was with BU for three seasons and helped push the program to a best-ever finish of 6th place at the 2005 IRA National Championships.

Prior to BU Sanderson coached at Community Rowing in Newton, Mass., as the head coach of the competitive men's sweep program where his crews won medals at US Club and Masters National Championships.

Sanderson also coached the US heavyweight men's double sculls to a bronze medal at the 2003 Pan American Games in the Dominican Republic. In 1989, he began rowing at the Narragansett Boat Club in Providence, R.I. He later attended Yale University, class of 1998, where he earned a BA in American studies and rowed on the lightweight crew. While at Yale, Sanderson was a member of three varsity lightweight crews earning two bronze medals and one silver medal at Eastern Sprints and a silver medal at the IRA National Championship regatta.

Sanderson competed for the United States at the World Rowing Championships as a member of the 1997 lightweight men's pair and the 1999 lightweight men's quadruple sculls. He has also raced the single, winning the Lightweight Single event at the prestigious Head of Charles Regatta in 1998 and 1999.

A native of Providence, R.I., Sanderson and his wife Taber live now in Miami.