Tools for rowing coaches
Seat your crews on screen, not on paper. Slide rowers into place, hold onto the lineups that go fast, and leave the spreadsheet to gather dust.
What do the Row HQ coach tools do?
Availability, lineups, attendance, and erg numbers share one screen. Check who can row tomorrow, seat the crew against fresh 2k data, publish, and each rower gets an app alert. Through a Maadi Cup campaign, when every selection call needs to be documented and defensible, the full history sits right there. Nobody chases replies across three group chats.
The coach tools ship in every band - simple banded pricing covers the lot.
Tools That Make Coaching Easier
Kiwi coaches lose whole evenings to admin that software should absorb. Try the free erg pace calculator, read up on what a coxswain does, or watch how an established club puts these tools to work.
On-Screen Lineups
The whole boat, bow through stroke, laid out as seats you fill by dragging names across.
Stored Lineups
A lineup that clicks gets kept. Bring it back for club nationals, a Karapiro regatta, or next Tuesday.
Rower Profiles
Preferred side, skill level, and turnout history pulled from the member portal next to each name as you seat the boat.
Instant Notifications
Publish and everyone knows their seat straight away via the member portal. The boat-park question of "where am I sitting?" disappears.
Safety Access
Next-of-kin details and medical notes travel with you on the water, ready the moment something goes wrong.
Name the Eight in Moments
Availability loads itself, names drag into seats, and the boat is done before the jug boils. The same tool covers weekday training sessions and race entries, from a local head race to nationals at Lake Ruataniwha.
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Traffic-Light Status
In = green, maybe = amber, out = grey - readable across the room
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Side Flags
Each rower carries a marker for stroke side, bow side, or sculling
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Instant Swap
Two rowers change seats in one move, no re-entry
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Boat Fit
Only hulls the right size for your crew are offered, tied into the boat booking system
Example: Coxed Four
Cox
Holly Marsh
Stroke
Finn Douglas
Seat three
Maia Winiata
Seat two
Josh Barrett
Bow seat
Lucy Frame
What Coaches Say
Back in your week once lineups run themselves
Drop in eleventh-hour reshuffles
Of every lineup kept for the season record
"Crew lists used to swallow my Sunday. Now the week is seated in fifteen minutes flat, and when a parent questions a Maadi selection I can show exactly how the call was made."
Related reading
- How coaches pick crews
- Planning training weeks that stick
- Erg metrics made simple
- What is an ergometer?
- What catching a crab means
- Erg pace calculator (free)
Want more before you commit? Read the FAQ, hear what other clubs say, or view pricing for your club size.
FAQs from rowing coaches
How Kiwi coaches run selection, lineups, and the training week with Row HQ.
It retires the spreadsheet-plus-WhatsApp routine. In Row HQ a head coach gets four connected pieces: attendance flowing in live from each training session, a visual builder where names drag into seats, a publish step that alerts the whole crew at once, and a season-long archive of every lineup rowed. For a school programme heading to Maadi at Lake Karapiro, or a club squad eyeing the New Zealand Rowing Championships, that means selection evenings shrink from hours of chasing to minutes of deciding.
The screen splits in two: the boat with its empty seats on one side, the list of rowers who have confirmed on the other. Move a name across and the software carries the rest - the rower is alerted, a clash with another boat is refused, and the right hull is held in the booking system. If the warm-up changes your mind about the stroke seat, the swap is two taps. Nobody rebuilds a spreadsheet at the boat park and nobody plays messenger through the cox.
Every lineup is kept automatically, tagged with its label, date, and session. Standing crews - the premier eight, the novice four - become templates you reopen and nudge rather than rebuild. Over a season the archive answers the questions that matter at review time: which combination raced at which Karapiro regatta, which held together, which needed surgery after a rough outing. It also settles selection debates with parents and committee alike, because the record is written down rather than remembered. Cloning any past crew opens a fresh copy in seconds.
Straight away. Saving and publishing a lineup pushes an alert to each selected rower with seat, boat, start time, and meeting spot. The cox gets that plus the complete crew sheet. Rowers not picked hear nothing at all, which spares them a public "not this week" moment. A preview shows the coach precisely what will go out, so an unfinished lineup never reaches the squad by mistake.
It does, and for most coaches this is the clincher. Attendance from recent sessions is pre-loaded when the builder opens: who trained, how often, water or erg. A rower absent for two weeks jumps out with no digging. Erg times ride along too, so ranking the squad by 2k while picking a nationals or Maadi crew takes one sort, not an evening of matching a group-chat poll to someone's PB spreadsheet.
See the lineup tools in action
Spend the saved hours on the water