Hank Gobbo-Zimmerman

Biography

Hank enters his second season with the Bears in 2025-26 after joining the coaching staff before the start of the 2024-25 season. He started his coaching career in 2009 at Franklin & Marshall College as the top assistant coach to the men’s and women’s crew teams. He helped guide over 60 athletes between the two programs and played an integral role in managing the recruiting efforts for both teams. In 2011, he moved to Washington, D.C. to become the head coach for the lightweight women’s team at Georgetown University. From 2012 to 2015, Gobbo-Zimmerman assumed the roles of assistant coach and recruiting coordinator for the lightweight women’s team at Princeton University. While with the Tigers, Hank managed novice walk-on efforts in the fall, recruited the classes of 2017, 2018, and 2019, and coached the Varsity 4+ to a Bronze medal at the IRA National Championships 2015. Gobbo-Zimmerman's longest tenured coaching job would then come from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2015. AT MIT, Hank was named an assistant coach and recruiting coordinator for the openweight women’s team. There, he created strength training programs, and managed all recruiting efforts. He also created the team training plan that led to the best league finish in program history, and helped lead the team to gold medals for 1v8 and 2v8 at the New England Championships in 2024. Before starting his career as a rowing coach, Hank attended Ithaca College and received his Bachelor of Arts degree in 200