Justin Price

Biography

Justin Price, the 2025 Big Ten Coach of the Year and two-time CRCA Regional Coach of the Year, begins his ninth season as the head coach of the Rutgers women’s rowing program, with the Scarlet Knights having reached new historic highs during his tenure. Since arriving “On The Banks” in 2018, Price has continued to build upon one of the most successful turnaround stories in NCAA rowing, transforming an 18-year drought of NCAA Championships into six consecutive appearances, including RU’s most recent appearance, an eighth-place finish in 2025. Price and his CRCA Regional Staff of the Year saw the Scarlet Knights produce perhaps the most successful season to date last year as the program celebrated its 50th varsity season. Not only did Rutgers’ eighth-place NCAA performance see the Varsity 4 finish fifth, the Varsity 8 take eighth and the 2nd Varsity 8 claim 13th, the Scarlet Knights had their best-ever Big Ten showing as conference runner-up while winning a program-record six medals. By the 2025 season’s end, four Scarlet Knights were named CRCA All-Americans and five earned All-Big Ten honors and two landed Big Ten All-Freshman accolades, including Big Ten Freshman of the Year, Beatrice Colclough. The excitement of the 2025 season continued well beyond NCAAs with Rutgers winning the Island Challenge Cup in their first-ever appearance at the prestigious Henley Royal Regatta and four Scarlet Knights competing for their home countries at the U23 World Championships. On the world