COACHING
Our Coaching Team
SAM TUCK
Head Coach
Sam Tuck joined Molesey as an athlete in 2015 and in the following years personally won The Thames Challenge Cup, The Wyfold Challenge Cup and GB Trials.
Following a successful tenure as the Head Coach of the University of Surrey (building the programme from the bottom-up to culminate in 3 consecutive Henley Women’s Regatta wins, wins at all major domestic regatta races and BUCS medals at all levels, disciplines and boat classes), Sam joined the Molesey coaching team in 2022.
As an Assistant coach, Sam helped lead back to back Thames Cup finals, resulting in a win at the 2022 Henley Royal Regatta. Sam became the Head Coach at the end of 2023 and since then has supported athletes to achieve medals at the U23 World Championships, Senior World Championships and the Olympics alongside coaching crews at the U23 European Championships and U23 World Championships.
Sam has been at the forefront of building the women's squad over the last 3 years and in 2025, secured Molesey's first ever full women's crew boat win at Henley Royal Regatta, bringing home the The Wargrave Challenge Cup.
Ellie Stevens
Head of Performance Pathways
Ellie Stevens joined the Molesey coaching team in 2024, having spent the previous decade leading the development programme at the University of Surrey. During her time at Surrey, Ellie coached crews to win almost 50 BUCS national titles, the Head of the River Race (pennant), Metropolitan Regatta, Marlow Regatta and Henley Women's Regatta amongst others.
Ellie is the Assistant Manager of the England Rowing Team and during her time in post, all four squads (senior men, senior women, junior men, junior women) have been undefeated. Ellie has won multiple awards for her contributions to coaching (British Rowing, Team Surrey, etc.) and is establishing the performance pathway programme at Molesey with the intention of being able to support athletes from their first strokes through to international aspirations.
Sam Sheppard
Head Men's Coach
Sam joined the Molesey coaching team in 2025 off the back of a successful 6 years at Oxford Brookes University as both an athlete and coach, achieving multiple wins at Henley Royal Regatta and the Head of the River Race (HORR). Sam spent the last season leading the Oxford Brookes programme having previously been the Assistant Coach. During that time, on an international stage.
Sam has coached the GBR M8+ to gold in the FISU World University Games 2025, has collected 2 podium finishes at the Netz Cup (2024, 2025) and coached the M2- at the U23 World Championships 2024.
