Kate Maxim enters her sixth season with the Oregon State women's rowing program as she serves as an assistant coach and director of the novice program. In her first year leading the OSU novices, the Beavers earned a fifth place finish at the Pac-10 Championships and earned a second place finish in the grand final of the prestigious San Diego Crew Classic. Before the 2007-08 season, Maxim restructured the tryout process to encourage a more competitive environment for the novices and it quickly paid dividends. In 2008, the Beavers' Novice 8 finished just .4 behind the bronze medalists at the Pac-10 Championships and also recorded wins over Gonzaga and the University of Victoria. In her third season at the helm of the Oregon State novice program, Maxim led the women's Novice 8+ crew to a third-place finish at the Pac-10 Conference Championships. Maxim once again showed her knack for training novice rowers proper technique in 2009-10 as the rookies were once again in the running for the medal stand finishing fourth by less than a second. In 2011, Maxim had another good group of novices and directed her Novice 8 crew to a silver medal finish at Pac-10 Championships. The N8 added wins at Gonzaga and at the Lake Natoma Invitational against crews from California, Stanford and Wisconsin. "Kate has done a tremendous job with the novice program over the past few years," Ford said. "She has created an environment that gets kids excited to row. I think anyone that rows for Kate is going to learn a great deal about the sport and about herself as an athlete. Every year we see what kind of contribution Kate's athletes are making at the varsity level and I'm very pleased." Maxim began her coaching career in 2004 at Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Ore. while enrolled as a full-time law student. While at L&C she worked with the men's and women's varsity teams and in 2005-06, Maxim helped coach the men to a runner-up team finish at the NCRC Championships. Maxim rowed at Langley High School in northern Virginia before embarking on a collegiate career at Michigan under Coach Ford. Maxim's teams finished in the top eight at the NCAA Championships all four seasons including a second place team finish in 2001. As a senior, Maxim was a member of the 1st Varsity 8+ taking second place finish at the 2003 NCAA Championships. Along the way, Maxim was part of a team and boat that earned three Big Ten Championships and a member of the All-Big Ten team in 2003. As a senior, Maxim was the U-M Athlete of the Year for women's crew as well as an All-American. She was also a three-time Collegiate Rowing Coaches Association National Scholar and a four-time University of Michigan scholar athlete. Maxim is a 2003 graduate of the University of Michigan with a degree in English and completed her law degree in the summer of 2009. |
 
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