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A native of Arlington, MA, Ed Moran brings more than 25 years of coaching in his first season with the UMass Lowell rowing program. A journalist for more than 30 years, Moran recently retired from a 28-year career with the Philadelphia Daily News to pursue coaching full time. Over the last nine years he founded and helped fund the rowing program at Haddonfield Memorial High School. Simultaneously, he served as a head coach in the Fairmount Rowing Association and the last three years at the South Jersey Rowing Club. Moran's crews regularly saw success at all levels in some of the most renowned regattas in the U.S. and Canada, including the Stotesburg Cup, U.S. Rowing and Youth Rowing Nationals, Junior World Championships and Canadian Henley. During his time at Haddonfield, as well as Fairmount and South Jersey, Moran coached more than 30 athletes who went on to earn scholarships at Division I universities. Over his journalism career, Moran simultaneously became an accomplished rower and represented the U.S. Dragonboat at the 1984 World Championships in Hong Kong, earning a bronze medal. Additionally, he was an accomplished lightweight sculler in the Fairmount club. Over the course of his journalism career, Moran also coached hockey for 11 years, from the youth level through AAA, helping develop players such as Bobby Ryan of the Anaheim Mighty Ducks and New York Rangers prospect Bobby Sanguinetti. For his last seven years with the Daily News, Moran was a beat writer for the Philadelphia Flyers and also covered the 2006 Winter Olympics in Torino, Italy. Upon graduation from Arlington H.S., Moran served three years in the U.S. Navy and then attended UMass Boston for two years before transferring to Boston University to pursue a degree in journalism. He accepted a staff position at the Cape Cod Times and also served as a correspondent for The Boston Globe before moving on to the Philadelphia Inquirer and later the Daily News. Moran spent the first half of his journalism career as a news reporter, covering such events as Operation Desert Shield and the events of Sept. 11 in New York before moving to sports, first as a sports business writer and then covering the Flyers and the NHL. Moran is the father of two grown children: Antonia, who is currently a sophomore at the University of North Carolina and a member of the women's second varsity eight; and Ed, Jr., who was a two-year member of the lightweight eight at Rutgers. Moran lives in Londonderry, NH. |
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