Kim Chavers - Women's Rowing Coach - Michigan State University Athletics

Kim Chavers

Title:
Head Coach
Email:
chaversk@ath.msu.edu
Phone:
432-5623

Athletic Director Bill Beekman named Kim Chavers as Michigan State's head rowing coach on September 3, 2019. Chavers is just the third head coach in program history and brings a commitment to student-athlete success, well-being, and development to East Lansing.

Chavers came to East Lansing after serving the 2018-19 season as an assistant coach at Old Dominion, helping guide the Monarchs into their inaugural season of competition in the American Athletic Conference. In the first season, ODU had 22 members of the squad earn Academic All-AAC honors.

Chavers previously worked with novice rowers at Big Ten rival Indiana for three seasons after joining the program prior to the 2015-16 season. She was the head recruiter for novice, and walk-on athletes, and designed and executed competitive land and water novice development programs for those rowers.   She also had a significant role in team travel and logistics, administrative duties, and supervising graduate assistant and volunteer coaches.

In her three seasons in Crimson and Cream, the Hoosiers continued an upward trajectory in the Big Ten, finishing fourth, fourth and fifth as a team at the league's Championship Regatta. In her first season with Indiana, the First Novice Eight finished seventh at the Big Ten Championship and the Second Novice Eight finished sixth. The 2017 season saw her Novice Eight improve by two spots at the Big Ten Championships, earning a fifth-place finish.    Indiana's varsity squad qualified for the NCAA Championship regatta in all three of her seasons, finishing 12th, 13th, and 15th. Academically, Hoosier rowers earned 61 Academic All-Big Ten honors during her three seasons in Bloomington.

Before arriving at IU, Chavers spent the 2014-15 season as an assistant coach at Stetson University, where she was also the head recruiter for both the men's and women's varsity programs.

Prior to moving into collegiate coaching, she was the boys' varsity head coach at Bishop O'Connell High School in Arlington, Virginia. The teams there qualified for the national championships both seasons Chavers was there and finished first or second in their conference both seasons as well. She also served as the novice girls coach at Boston Latin School in Massachusetts for three seasons (2009-11) and was also MIT's club rowing coach during the 2010-11 campaign.

Chavers was an instructor at the Capital Rowing Club in Washington, D.C. (2013-14) and on the office staff at Community Rowing, Inc. (Boston) from 2009-11 while coaching at Boston Latin.

She rowed on the collegiate level at Marietta College in Ohio, where she graduated in 2008 with her degree in Health Science. She would go on to earn her doctorate in Physical Therapy from Northeastern University in 2012, and a master's degree in sport coaching leadership with a concentration in rowing from Drexel University in 2019.

Chavers holds USRowing Coaching certification levels 1 & 2, and has participated in the NCAA Women's Coaches Academy. She and her husband, Kyle, have three daughters.