CIRC Coaches
Coach Tammy Coburn
Tammy has been coaching with CIRC for 3 years, taking the helm as Head Coach August 2023. She completed the level 2 US Rowing coaching program 2023.
Coach Cayton Coburn
Coach Yianni Magnis
I was born and raised in Greece. I was a member of the Greek Jr. National Team and competed in World Championships. In preparation for the 1992 Olympics, I was coached by two very successful coaches at the time, Penny Chuter (Steven Redgrave’s coach) and Thor Nilse. I completed the Level 3 USRowing Coaching Education in 2023. In the last few years, I helped a lot of Master Rowers with their training. I was the first person to row and start a team in the Channel Islands Harbor in Oxnard, California. Rowing is my passion.
Coach Eric Bach
Head Coach Tammy Coburn
Tammy has been managing and coaching CIRC for 7 year, she took the helm as head coach in 2023. Her objective is to help athletes reach their goal of rowing in college while actively promote a culture in which every member of the club acts with the highest ethical, professional, and safety standards in everything we do, including the following core values:
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Responsibility … with special emphasis on fostering character development in our student athletes.
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Competitive Spirit … balanced with sportsmanship, teamwork and camaraderie.
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Physical and Mental Fitness ... promoting a healthy balance to optimize wellbeing.
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Outreach … rowing available to everyone.
We achieve these core values by working collectively for the greater good of the club. Above all, we exist to row and row to have fun!
Coach Cayton Coburn
Cayton Coburn joined CIRC in 2020 and recently came on as a coach in 2024. Rowing has been a part of her life by proxy for many years prior to participating because of her family’s involvement. Cayton has many years of prior experience coaching golf and working with/ instructing kids and teens in various other fields. She has a passion for motivating others to reach their potential. She strives to continue to foster an environment of teamwork, respect, and communication at CIRC. She values education because the more you know about all facets of a subject like rowing, the better opportunity you have to succeed and thrive! Cayton believes rowing can teach so much more than just how to race a boat. She hopes to highlight the other amazing lessons athletes can learn from such a fun and unique sport.
Coach Yianni Magnis
I was born and raised in Greece. I was a member of the Greek Jr. National Team and competed in World Championships. In preparation for the 1992 Olympics, I was coached by two very successful coaches at the time, Penny Chuter (Steven Redgrave’s coach) and Thor Nilse. I completed the Level 3 USRowing Coaching Education in 2023. In the last few years, I helped a lot of Master Rowers with their training. I was the first person to row and start a team in the Channel Islands Harbor in Oxnard, California. Rowing is my passion.
Coach Eric Bach
Eric was initially drawn into the sport of rowing as a crew parent to a son and daughter who both rowed all four years of their respective high school careers in Fairfax County, Virginia. He began his own rowing journey as a Masters Rower with Northern Virginia Rowing Club (NVRC), and subsequently learned to scull with Sandy Run Scullers (SRS). Both clubs rowed out of the Sandy Run Rowing Facility on the beautiful Occoquan Reservoir in Fairfax Station, Virginia. Eric was most recently Vice President of NVRC, before moving to Ventura County in the spring of 2024. He has competed as a sweep rower in both sprint and head races, and on the indoor rower at the Mid-Atlantic Erg Sprints. He was an assistant coach for the novice men’s team at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology in Annandale, Virginia, during their 2023-2024 winter training season. Eric is passionate about rowing, has seen its power to transform lives, and is committed to giving back to the sport that has given him so much
Coach Caroline Hiott
Caroline started rowing in 2018 with the University of Georgia as a novice rower. She previously played soccer for 8 years and transitioned to the sport of rowing during college. There she fell in love with rowing and continued that passion into helping coach a novice women’s team at Clemson University during her graduate program, and now is looking forward to helping out at Channel Islands Rowing Club.