JON MILLER
Head Coach, Varsity Men and Women
2024 & 2025 ACRA Women's Coach of the Year Jon Miller is currently in his 17th season leading the Vanderbilt Rowing Program.
Coach Miller began coaching at Vanderbilt in the fall of 2007 and assumed the position of head coach in January of 2009. Under his leadership, the team has won 15 SIRA medals and 13 ACRA medals. Coach Miller was named ACRA South Region Men’s Coach of the Year in 2022 and South Region Women's Coach of the Year in 2023 & 2025.
DANIEL ORS
Varsity Coach
Daniel rowed for the Dartmouth Lightweights, graduating in 2014. After his collegiate career, he began coaching with the George Pocock Rowing Foundation in Seattle, where he worked with U17 and U19 athletes. He is now part of the Nashville Rowing coaching staff, serving as a junior coach and is currently coaching Vandy’s varsity men’s and women’s squads. Outside of rowing, Daniel is a Senior Software Developer at Elevate Government Solutions.
TYE SHANKLIN
Novice Men's Coach
Tye is an alum of the program, where he had an impressive career spanning four years of top results at major regattas including multiple top-10 finishes at the Head of the Charles, gold at the Head of the Hooch and an ACRA grand final. Shanklin has been coaching at Vanderbilt since 2022 and has since been a strong influence on the novice men, as exemplified by a SIRA win and ACRA silver in the MN4+ (2024) and bronze (2025).
EMMANUEL PAGAN
Varsity Coach
Men and Women
Coach Pagan began his rowing career at the Indianapolis Rowing Center during his senior year of high school. After graduating, he began as a coach for the IRC novice crews and split his time coaching for the IRC and Butler University Rowing Club for ten years, eventually becoming the head coach for both programs before joining the Vanderbilt Rowing coaching staff. Emmanuel was named ACRA South Region Men's Coach of the Year in 2023.
DANIEL INGBER
Novice Men’s Coach
Danny is an alum of the program, graduating in 2022 after leaving his mark on the program’s record board with first-place times in the 2k, 6k and Novice 2k. He was also part of the crew that won the Collegiate 4+ at the 2021 Head of the Charles Regatta and served as Team President from 2021–2022. Danny is now a J.D. Candidate at Vanderbilt University Law School and returns to the team as a coach, assisting with the novice men.
VAMSI SUBRAVETI
Novice Women's Coach
Vamsi joined the coaching staff in 2024 after his time as an athlete on the team. A former road cyclist at UC Berkeley, Vamsi's endurance sport background led to quick success after he made the switch to rowing, including an equal best Varsity 8+ finish at ACRA in 2024. Vamsi worked with the novice men's squad in 2024-2025 and is now the novice women’s coach. He continues to work towards a PhD with Vanderbilt's Multiscale Computational Mechanics Laboratory.