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Title: Associate Director of Athletics/ Compliance E-mail: jsimon@lclark.edu Phone: 503-768-7029 College: Mt. Holyoke
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Jenny is starting her fifth year on the staff at Lewis &
Clark College. Simon began her career as an intern and an assistant
rowing coach, moving her way into a full-time administrative
position in 2005. She was promoted to Associate Director of
Physical Education & Athletics - Compliance in the summer of
2007
As a rowing coach, Simon has worked with the novice women's squad
over the past three years and is excited to move into her new role
as the Varsity assistant. Her crews successes over the past couple
of years include a Novice Women's 4+ Conference Championship in
2004. Jenny rowed as a member of the Varsity Crew team for three
years and then did a coaching practicum under the Mount Holyoke
head crew coach during her senior year. She also spent her summers
coaching in the Mount Holyoke College Community Rowing Program and
was a member of the group that founded the Rowing Strong, Rowing
Together program a rowing program for pregnant and parenting teen
mothers in Holyoke, Massachusetts.
Simon also serves in a number of other capacities in the rowing
community including officiating as USRowing Referee at local and
national regattas, a member of the executive board of the Northwest
Rowing Council, the director of the Row as One Camps for Master's
women in Oregon and Massachusetts, and the camp director for the
Lewis & Clark NIKE Rowing Camp.
As an administrator, Jenny wears a number of hats in the Athletics
department. Her administrative career began in 2002 when she became
a member of the inaugural class of NCAA Division III Administrative
Interns. She served as an intern at the college for two year and
was then hired full-time as the Assistant to the Directors of
Athletics. Under this title, Simon provides academic support for
all of the varsity student-athletes. Prior to LC Simon worked as a
teaching assistant for Statistics courses at Mount Holyoke. She
also served as an Upperclassman Academic Advisor where she worked
with students as both a tutor and an advisor in selecting majors,
choosing courses and with general academic concerns. As a Math and
Sociology double major in college Simon is familiar with the
challenges that arise in both the Math/Science disciplines as well
as the the Social Science and Humanities. Simon's role in academic
support is to be an additional resource to student-athletes and
coaches.
Jenny serves as the primary liaison to the Student-Athlete Advisory
Committee, the Co-Coordinator of the Student-Athlete mentor
program, "The Balancing Act." and as a member of the Event
Management staff.



