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Tone Lawver, a 1995 Pacific Lutheran University graduate, is entering his seventh year of coaching at PLU and is in his 10th coaching season overall. With Lawver at the program's helm, the PLU varsity women have been ranked in the top three NCAA Division III schools in the Pacific Region four out of the last five years.
In addition to coaching at PLU, Lawver has coached in Rochester, N.Y., and Boston, Mass. While in Rochester, his junior women won gold at the NY State Scholastic Championships, Empire State Games and made a finals appearance at the Royal Canadian Henley from 1999-2002. In 1998, his junior men took silver in the four-plus at New England's School of Boys.
Lawver, who earned a graduate degree from Harvard
University in 1998, lives in Tacoma and works as a Web site
designer.
Meredith Graham Lawver rowed for four years at Ithaca College where she was the stroke of the JV eight for three years. She coached boys high school rowing for three years prior to joining the PLU staff. While coaching juniors, Meredith led her crews to several state championship gold medals. She also founded a summer rowing program for high school and collegiate students. From 2003 through 2006, she was the head coach for the varsity men at PLU. Under her watch the men's lightweight four won the 2005 NCRC (conference) championship. Meredith has been coaching a total of eight years and is a U.S. Rowing Level III certified coach.
She is a physical therapist and works at Good Samaritan Hospital
in the Children's Therapy Unit.
Morgan Hepfer is a native of Puyallup and attended Bellarmine Prep in Tacoma. At Western Washington University in Bellingham, he rowed for four years and had the opportunity to coach the novice men. He loved coaching so much he decided to make it a career.
Morgan presently works at Crossfit Tacoma in downtown where
he teaches people how to move and do things that were previously
impossible.
Samantha Prevot was born and raised in Tacoma, Washington and graduated from Clover Park High School.
After rowing four years for PLU, she started coaching after
graduating from PLU in the spring 2008. This will be
her second year coaching the PLU novice women and she is
excited to do more.
