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Head coach
Head coach
liz Miller
liz Miller
This past winter, Coach Liz completed the USRowing Level III coaching certification program.
She began her rowing career at Harriton High School where she was a captain her senior year. She also raced during the club season for Bachelors Barge Club (earning a silver medal at USRowing Nationals) and for the USRowing National Development team. Coach Liz was recruited and rowed for the University of Miami where she medaled in many championships, including the Florida Intercollegiate Rowing Championships, the Big East, and the Southern Intercollegiate Rowing Championships.
Coach Liz began her coaching career at Harriton High School as the novice/freshman girls’ coach and then returning girls’ coach. She moved to Radnor Girls Crew Club as the first assistant coach and then head coach. Coach Liz was also the Director of Rowing and Head Girls’ Coach for Harriton Boat Club (HBC), a club team that she founded in 2010. Prior to starting Villa's varsity program, she spent 4 years at Lower Merion as the girls varisty coach.
Her crews have medaled at the Philadelphia City Championships, Stotesbury Cup Regatta and SRAA Nationals as well as reaching the finals and quarter finals at the prestigious Henley Women's Regatta in England.
In her time outside of rowing, Coach Liz works at Ridley High School as a Family and Consumer Sciences teacher and is pursuing her masters degree. Liz picked up paddle ball this summer and she loves to travel and spend time with her family and her dog, Georgia.
Assistant CoacH
Assistant CoacH
Alair SouthertoN
Alair SouthertoN
Coach Alair started rowing in middle school, and continued into high school where she helped to create the crew team at Sacred Heart. Focusing mostly on sculling events, she raced for the Vesper Juniors in the summers during the club season and Sacred Heart during the school year, traveling as far as Florida to compete in the finals of Scholastic Junior Nationals. While racing for Vesper in high school, she earned silver and bronze medals at Club Nationals.
Coach Alair was recruited and received a scholarship to row for Fordham University, where she began sweep rowing and made the A10 Dean's List each of her four years.
Coach Alair began her coaching career at Sacred Heart, her alma mater, and has since coached for Philadelphia City Youth, Whitemarsh Boat Club, Randor High School, The Shipley School and Lower Merion High School.
Outside of coaching, Coach Alair rows for Vesper and occasionally competes with the Vesper Masters' Program, sometimes racing with her mother Catherine. She is also an English teacher and has completed her Masters degree in Secondary Education.
Coach Alair was recruited and received a scholarship to row for Fordham University, where she began sweep rowing and made the A10 Dean's List each of her four years.
Coach Alair began her coaching career at Sacred Heart, her alma mater, and has since coached for Philadelphia City Youth, Whitemarsh Boat Club, Randor High School, The Shipley School and Lower Merion High School.
Outside of coaching, Coach Alair rows for Vesper and occasionally competes with the Vesper Masters' Program, sometimes racing with her mother Catherine. She is also an English teacher and has completed her Masters degree in Secondary Education.
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