Larkin Brown

Biography

ACC champion and All-ACC first team selection as a student-athlete at Virginia, Larkin Brown enters her second season at USC as an assistant coach on head coach Kelsie Chaudoin's staff. “Larkin is one of the strongest leaders I have had the opportunity to work with in my time as a college coach,” Chaudoin said of Brown, who rowed at UVA while Chaudoin was associate head coach for the Cavaliers. "She is hard-working, bright, tenacious and mature beyond her years, and has a great sense of humor to boot. Larkin is also a straight shooter who has the ability to connect and inspire everyone around her, and I am certain she will be an asset to the young women on the team here at USC. She has developed quickly as a coach, working with the Olympic Development team this summer, and we are excited for her to join the staff here at USC!” In addition to her work with USRowing as an associate coach in summer 2024, Brown also coached at the prep level in Chattanooga, Tenn. A 2023 graduate of Virginia, Brown was a co-captain as a senior. She was a member of UVA’s ACC title-winning Second Varsity Eight in 2022 and also won an ACC title in the 2021 Varsity Four. In 2023, she helped UVA’s Varsity Eight take second at the ACC Championships and 11th at the NCAA Championship. "I am truly honored to be joining the USC family this year,” Brown said. "Having had the privilege of rowing under Kelsie at UVA, I am eager to work alongside her once again to cultivate the next generation of women's rowing