Dan Moore, who co-coached Great Britain's men's pair and men's four to silver and bronze at Paris 2024, is leaving British Rowing to become Rowing Canada Aviron's first Director of Pathway.
The newly created role puts Moore in charge of the athlete and coach development pathway, bridging Canada's domestic and high performance programmes. His remit will focus on individuals identified as high-potential and Canada’s emerging talent programme, NextGen. RCA announced the appointment on 22 October alongside that of David Robertson as Director of Operations. Both join the Senior Leadership Team under chief executive Jennifer Fitzpatrick.
From Talent Spotter to Olympic Coach
Moore's CV runs the full length of the British system. From 2012 to 2018 he was a World Class Start coach in Reading, running school recruitment campaigns and a daily training squad. He coached the W2x to U23 world gold in Rotterdam in 2016, a season in which his Reading Start group produced five world medallists.
After a secondment to the senior team for the 2017 Worlds in Sarasota, he joined the GB Rowing Team full-time in March 2018. He coached the M2x at Tokyo 2020 before co-coaching the Paris sweep boats. At the 2025 World Championships in Shanghai he coached the women's four and the W8+, which took bronze. In August he was head coach of Britain's 28-strong team at the FISU World University Championships on Fanshawe Lake in London, Ontario, so he has already coached on Canadian water.
“Canada has a great heritage in Olympic rowing, and I grew up watching some of the great crews of the 2000 era,” Moore said. “It's clear there is a strong passion to develop performance on the water here, and I'm looking forward to learning about the strong Canadian rowing community and especially the coaches that glue the system together.”
Rowing Canada’s Vision
The role comes out of RCA's Vision 2032 strategic plan. By 2028 the plan aims to establish a structured route for coach development, including mentorship and Senior Team exposure, build a pool of five to eight experienced mentor coaches and widen talent identification. It also commits RCA to a gap analysis of whether every National Event serves the athlete pathway, and Moore will be the one aligning competition programming with development goals.
When RCA named five crews for Amsterdam in August, Senior Men's Head Coach Lauren Fisher said that since Paris “our focus has been on strengthening the pathway by investing in our junior and under 23 athletes,” with an eye on Brisbane as well as LA28. Fisher is also a former GB Olympic rowing coach.
Robertson joins from Own the Podium, where he led professional development for high performance coaches. He was previously a Canoe Kayak Canada national team coach and executive director of the Coaches Association of Saskatchewan. At RCA he takes on member services, HR, communications and Safe Sport.
