Coaches
Brian Comey
Head Coach
Head Varsity Girls Coach
Brian grew up rowing and coxing on the Potomac river starting in 8th grade. As a coxswain at Alexandria City High School, Brian won three Virginia Scholastic Rowing Association Championships as well as dozens of medals with Old Dominion Boat Club and TBC Racing in the Summers and Falls. He continued as a coxswain in college at Mercyhurst University for all four years as the Varsity Coxswain. While in college Brian got his start in coaching at his high school summer rowing program as well as coaching masters rowers at Alexandria Community Rowing. Immediately after graduating, Coach Brian was named the Head Men's Crew Coach at The College of William and Mary where he led the Men to one of the best seasons in program history. While in Williamsburg, he also coached the juniors at Williamsburg Boat Club.
In 2018 Brian moved back to Washington, DC to pursue a career in real estate in his hometown as well as a career in coaching. Since then he has coached numerous crews to top place finishes at both local and national regattas including Alexandria Community Rowing, Walt Whitman High School, and Bishop O'Connell High School. After coaching the Novice Boys at B-CC last fall, Brian is thrilled to be returning to the program as the Head Girls Coach. Brian was teammates with many B-CC athletes while coxing at TBC so he is well aware of the deep history and success the Baron's have on both the local and national level. He is determined to carry on the success of the program for years to come!
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Coach Zalyn Bajor
Head Varsity Boys Coach
Zayln is a graduate of Rowan University and earned his law degree from the University of Miami. His own rowing career includes St. Augustine Prep Rowing, La Salle University Rowing, Oakcrest High Rowing, and Miami Beach Rowing Club.
For the past 4 years, Zayln has been at the Pine Crest School in Florida where he has served as Freshman coach from 2019-2021, and most recently as Lead Coach, Men's Rowing where most recently his 1V advancing to the petite final at SRAAs in 2023. Alongside coaching, Zayln taught 4th grade and practiced law.
Prior to coaching for Pine Crest, Zayln served as Assistant Men's Rowing Coach at the University of Delaware helping lead the team to 2017 & 2018 Dad Vail Overall Points trophies, 2017 Dad Vail Champions for the Lightweight 8+ and Lightweight 4+ and 2019 ACRA National Champions in the 1st and 2nd 8+.
Coach Dillon Montgomry
Head Novice Boys Coach & Team Conditioning Coach
From 2017 to 2020, Dillon coached the high school program at Sammanish Rowing Association in Sammanish, WA, while also serving as Founder and Head Coach of Endurance Academy, a high performance off-season training camp created to help motivated, committed elite collegiate and high school rowers reach their potential. Most recently Dillon has been Head Rowing Coach at Colorado Junior Rowing in Boulder, CO.
Dillon rowed for Trinity College and studied at the University of Colorado. He is a triathlete who competed in the 2022 Ironman World Championship in St. George, Utah, and was a member of the University of Colorado Men's Triathalon team from 2019-2023.
Coach Mark Parrish
Assistant Coach
Mark is a third-year Computer Science major at The George Washington University as well as an active athlete on the GW Men’s Rowing team. A lifelong athlete, Mark began rowing his freshman year at university and immediately fell in love with the sport, sparking a passion for rowing and coaching at a competitive level. Through the previous years, he has gained experience and success at collegiate regattas across the east coast, including a silver medal at Club Nationals in Oak Ridge, TN in 2023. This summer, he trained at Pocock Rowing Center in Seattle, WA. Outside of rowing, he is inspired by technology and its applications in helping athletes achieve their goals both inside and outside of competition.
Coach Sabrina Paulsen
Assistant Coach
Sabrina rowed four years at Old Dominion University and was named team MVP her senior year. She has been an assistant coach at George Mason University since August 2021.
Prior to coaching at GMU Paulsen served as a rowing coach at Row House, helping clients achieve their cardio and fitness goals on rowing machines. She also worked as a fitness coach at F45 Training, where she taught function training in a group fitness setting.
Paulsen earned her bachelor's degree in psychology from Old Dominion in 2017 and just completed her masters in kinesthesiology.
Coaches
Brian Comey
Head Coach
Head Varsity Girls Coach
Brian grew up rowing and coxing on the Potomac river starting in 8th grade. As a coxswain at Alexandria City High School, Brian won three Virginia Scholastic Rowing Association Championships as well as dozens of medals with Old Dominion Boat Club and TBC Racing in the Summers and Falls. He continued as a coxswain in college at Mercyhurst University for all four years as the Varsity Coxswain. While in college Brian got his start in coaching at his high school summer rowing program as well as coaching masters rowers at Alexandria Community Rowing. Immediately after graduating, Coach Brian was named the Head Men's Crew Coach at The College of William and Mary where he led the Men to one of the best seasons in program history. While in Williamsburg, he also coached the juniors at Williamsburg Boat Club.
In 2018 Brian moved back to Washington, DC to pursue a career in real estate in his hometown as well as a career in coaching. Since then he has coached numerous crews to top place finishes at both local and national regattas including Alexandria Community Rowing, Walt Whitman High School, and Bishop O'Connell High School. After coaching the Novice Boys at B-CC last fall, Brian is thrilled to be returning to the program as the Head Girls Coach. Brian was teammates with many B-CC athletes while coxing at TBC so he is well aware of the deep history and success the Baron's have on both the local and national level. He is determined to carry on the success of the program for years to come!
Coach Zalyn Bajor
Head Varsity Boys Coach
Zayln is a graduate of Rowan University and earned his law degree from the University of Miami. He learned to row at St. Augustine Prep, then continued at La Salle University. He has family roots in Philadelphia, New Jersey, and Florida.
Zayln taught and coached at the Pine Crest School in Florida for 4 years until Spring 2023. He served as the Lead Men's coach for 2 years and the freshman coach for 2 years before that. Pine Crest earned 2nd place Florida scholastic overall team finishes 3 years in a row. In 2023, the men advanced 3 boats to SRAA nationals where the 1V8+ advanced and raced in the petite final, finishing 10th overall. At the 2023 Florida State Championship, Pine Crest earned the following scholastic finishes: 1V8+ - 3rd, JV8+ - 1st, LM4+ - 2nd, JV4+ - 4th, M1x - 2nd, JM1x - 1st & 2nd, LM2x - 2nd, M2- - 1st. The M2- went on to finish 10th (2nd in B final) at the USRowing Youth National Championship. Athletes have earned and established new all-time boathouse records and gone on to row at top universities.
Prior to coaching for Pine Crest, Zayln practiced law and served as Assistant Lightweight Men's Rowing Coach at the University of Delaware alongside the legend Chuck Crawford and many other great coaches where he helped lead the team to 2017 & 2018 Dad Vail Overall Points trophies, 2017 Dad Vail Champions in the Lightweight 8+ and Lightweight 4+, 2017 Navy Day Champions in the LM8+, and 2019 ACRA National Champions in the 1st and 2nd 8+. Several of those athletes represented the USA in U23 and open world championships internationally, and others have continued in the sport as coaches. In 2022, those alumni won and set a course record in the alumni M4+ at the Head of the Charles.
Zayln previously taught rowing at Nova Southeastern University (D2 WV4+ - 2nd SSC, 4th Dad Vail), Oakcrest High School (2014 WV8+ - 2nd - NJ State Championship), and Miami Beach Rowing Club.
Coach Dillon Montgomery
Head Novice Boys Coach & Team Conditioning Coach
From 2017 to 2020, Dillon coached the high school program at Sammanish Rowing Association in Sammanish, WA, while also serving as Founder and Head Coach of Endurance Academy, a high performance off-season training camp created to help motivated, committed elite collegiate and high school rowers reach their potential. Most recently Dillon has been Head Rowing Coach at Colorado Junior Rowing in Boulder, CO.
Dillon rowed for Trinity College and studied at the University of Colorado. He is a triathlete who competed in the 2022 Ironman World Championship in St. George, Utah, and was a member of the University of Colorado Men's Triathalon team from 2019-2023.
Coach Erin Dockery
Head Novice Girls Coach
Erin joins us from Bishop O'Connell where she was head coach for the 2022/23 school year. She rowed four years for the University of Connecticut, where she also coached their novice program. Across the years, she has coached for various programs in Woodbridge, VA and in Long Beach and San Diego, CA. Erin has a Master's Certificate in Personal Training from the Australia Institute of Fitness where she focused on training strategies, how to periodize training for specific sports, nutritional strategies and exercise physiology.
Coach Mark Parrish
Assistant Coach
Mark is a third-year Computer Science major at The George Washington University as well as an active athlete on the GW Men’s Rowing team. A lifelong athlete, Mark began rowing his freshman year at university and immediately fell in love with the sport, sparking a passion for rowing and coaching at a competitive level. Through the previous years, he has gained experience and success at collegiate regattas across the east coast, including a silver medal at Club Nationals in Oak Ridge, TN in 2023. This summer, he trained at Pocock Rowing Center in Seattle, WA. Outside of rowing, he is inspired by technology and its applications in helping athletes achieve their goals both inside and outside of competition.
Coach Sabrina Paulsen
Assistant Coach
Sabrina rowed four years at Old Dominion University and was named team MVP her senior year. She has been an assistant coach at George Mason University since August 2021.
Prior to coaching at GMU Paulsen served as a rowing coach at Row House, helping clients achieve their cardio and fitness goals on rowing machines. She also worked as a fitness coach at F45 Training, where she taught function training in a group fitness setting.
Paulsen earned her bachelor's degree in psychology from Old Dominion in 2017 and just completed her masters in kinesthesiology.