SEPT. 12 -- The Boston University women's rowing team has hired Malcolm Doldron as an assistant coach, fourth-year head coach Stacey Rippetoe announced Monday. He will serve as recruiting coordinator for the Terriers and will also primarily work with the novices this fall.

"In the search for a candidate, Malcolm emerged as the perfect choice," Rippetoe said. "With his past experiences as a coach and coxswain, he's the best fit for all the qualities that this program needs to move fast. The program is excited to welcome him aboard, as we move into our new conference membership with the CAA."

A standout coxswain at Marietta College, Doldron spent the last four seasons as an assistant at Columbia University while also working as the head coach of the U.S. Rowing Under-23 and Senior Women's Development Camp at the Penn Athletic Club.

Under his watch, the Lions' second varsity eight boat placed fourth at the Eastern Sprints in 2010, and the novice eight boat also placed fourth in 2009. During his first season with the team in 2008, the novice four boat won the Grand Final.

While working at the Penn Athletic Club in the summer of 2009 and 2010, he guided the crew to the overall team points trophy at the U.S. Rowing National Championships, winning seven event titles along the way. His lightweight eight and four boats went on to place first at the Royal Canadian Henley as well.

Doldron joined Columbia after spending two seasons with Princeton as a volunteer assistant. While with the Tigers, he guided the varsity `a' four boat to a 25-2 record and a third-place finish at the 2007 Eastern Sprints. The boat went on to finish fourth at the NCAA Championship. The novice four boat also took home the title at Eastern Sprints.

Although he was born in Brooklyn, Doldron grew up in the Washington, D.C., area. He began coxing at West Potomac High in Alexandria and for the Thompson Boat Center.

He spent seven years, from 1999 to 2005, as head coach of rowing at West Potomac, leading men's fours to gold at the Scholastic Nationals and silver at the Stotesbury Cup, and both men's and women's fours to gold and silver medals at the Virginia State Championships.

In five years as junior women's head coach at the Thompson Boat Center, his junior and youth eights and fours earned many medals, including a gold medal in the U.S. Rowing National Championships and a silver medal at Canadian Henley. In 2005, the Thompson Center earned the Marion D. Ventura Women's Points Trophy at the U.S. Rowing National Championships. Doldron also coached at Water Street Rowing and the Washington Area Rowing Club.

The Alexandria resident served as coxswain of the varsity eight at West Potomac, earning silver in the Northern Virginia Championships, and a bronze medal as coxswain of the junior men's four at the 1995 nationals, representing the Thompson Center. He continued his rowing career at Marietta College, where he was the cox for the Pioneers' varsity eight that earned bronze medals at the 1998 SIRA's and Dad Vail Regatta. He graduated from Marietta in 1999 with a B.A. in psychology and has done graduate work at George Mason.

Following graduation, Doldron became a special education teacher at Fairfax High in Fairfax, Va.

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