Ahsan Iqbal has been coaching Junior, Masters and National Team crews over the past 35 years.  He started rowing as a Freshman at MIT and rowed all four years and earned his varsity letter.  Those four years saw some of the most successful lightweight crews at MIT with wins over Harvard, Cornell, Columbia, Rutgers, Coast Guard and Dartmouth.  He started Washington University’s competitive program and later started the Junior Program at St. Louis Rowing Club and was the Head Coach.  By the time he moved to Philadelphia, this had grown to be in the top 10 junior programs in the country with medals at Youth Nationals, Club Nationals and Canadian Henley.  His Varsity Women won the prestigious Head of the Schuylkill three years in a row.  Ahsan coached Masters crews at Fairmount Rowing Association in Philadelphia as well as Shipley School.  Both those crews were on the medal stands at Masters Nationals and Scholastic Championships respectively.  He also coached the Pakistan Rowing Team at the South Asian Games in Sri Lanka and earned the green blazer.  His crews won six silver medals.  Ahsan was the Ugandan Olympic Rowing Coach accompanying Kathleen Noble to the Tokyo Olympics in 2021.  He is keenly interested in scientifically training crews to their maximum potential both psychologically and physiologically.