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Staff

Eleanna Bez

  • Title
    Assistant Women's Rowing Coach
  • Email
    ebez@colgate.edu
  • Phone
    315-228-6792
Eleanna Bez has joined the Colgate women’s rowing staff as an assistant coach in August 2024. 

Bez brings to Colgate more than seven years of rowing experience and three years of coaching across a wide breadth of boathouses. She most recently competed on the Purdue Crew while obtaining her master’s degree at Purdue University. After her time competing with the team in West Lafayette, Ind., Bez served as the crew’s boathouse maintenance and repair worker, assisting alongside coaches and staff. 

Bez’s passion for rowing began as a walk-on student-athlete for the University of Washington in 2017. She continued her involvement in the sport with various clubs in the Seattle area, including the Pocock Rowing Center, where she served a year as the regatta captain in 2022-23 and competed in notable regattas including the Head of the Lake and Opening Day/Windermere Cup. 

Bez’s coaching started with a recreational master’s squad and eventually bloomed into larger roles at the interscholastic level. Bringing a unique perspective to the sport, Bez has worked with a variety of different age groups, while also performing several years of rowing research with a biomechanics lab. 

Bez earned her bachelor of science in anthropology from the University of Washington in 2021. She went on to complete her master’s degree in sports engineering from Purdue in May 2024.