Jake Power - Women's Rowing Coach

Jake Power

Title:
Assistant Coach
Alma Mater:
Virginia, '16

Jake Power enters his third season on the Bruins’ coaching staff in 2023-24. He served as a volunteer assistant coach at UCLA during the 2021-22 season.

Power primarily assisted with the Bruins’ fours in 2023 and the novice walk-on rowers in 2022. UCLA’s varsity four crew registered first-place finishes on back-to-back mornings at the two-day Big Ten Invitational in April of 2023. In addition, the Bruins’ V4+ crew had a top-three finish in an eight-boat race at the Dexter Lake Invitational in 2023.

Working primarily with the novice crews in 2022, Power helped UCLA’s N8+ boat to second-place finishes on back-to-back days at the San Diego Crew Classic in March of 2022.

Power, who graduated from the University of Virginia in 2016, arrived at UCLA after coaching stops at Loyola Marymount and Stanford. He served as an assistant coach at nearby LMU during the 2018-19 season. He mainly worked with the varsity and novice fours. The Lions finished in first place in the V4+ and 2V4+ races at the 2019 West Coast Conference (WCC) Championship, the first time that the rowing program at Loyola Marymount had accomplished that feat. LMU’s novice four crew secured a first-place finish at the 2019 WIRA Championship.

Prior to his time at LMU, Power served as a volunteer assistant coach at Stanford during the 2016-17 and 2017-18 school years. He assisted with the selection of the varsity four crew that placed eighth at the 2018 NCAA Championships. In addition, he coached the development group that consisted of pairs and fours.

While serving as a volunteer assistant coach at Stanford, Power also worked as a research assistant in the behavioral lab at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. He facilitated online and in-lab marketing and behavioral research for faculty and students while studying goal attainment and interpersonal dynamics in teams.

As a student-athlete at Virginia (Charlottesville, Va.), Power was a three-year varsity coxswain and served as team captain during his senior season (2015-16). Among his highlights during his time at Virginia, Power helped the V8+ crew to a third-place finish in 2015 and 2016 at the ACRA Championships. His team won and set course records in the V4+ at the 2014 Head of the Charles Regatta. In 2015, Virginia’s V8+ raced to a fifth-place finish at the Head of the Charles. He began his rowing career at Camp Randall Rowing Club (Madison, Wis.).

Power, who grew up in Madison, Wis., earned his bachelor’s degree in history from Virginia in 2016. Power also earned his master’s degree in management from UCLA’s Anderson School of Management in March of 2022.