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Will Oliver-Milchman

  • Title
    H.W. McCurdy ’22 Director of Rowing; Gerrit Zwart '62 Men's Varsity Lightweight Crew Coach
  • Email
    w_oliver@mit.edu
  • Phone
    617-253-9676
  • Education
    Virginia '04
  • Year
    17th at MIT

At MIT

Will Oliver-Milchman enters his seventeenth season as the Gerrit Zwart '62 Men's Varsity Lightweight Crew Coach and begins his first year as the H.W. McCurdy ’22 Director of Rowing. 

At the conclusion of of 2024-25 season, Oliver-Milchman was named the Intercollegiate Rowing Coaches Association (IRCA) National Lightweight Coach of the Year.

During Oliver-Milchman’s tenure in Cambridge, the Cardinal and Gray were Gold medalists at the Dad Vail Regatta in the 2013 Lightweight 4+ and the 2014, 2022, and 2023 Lightweight 8+ competitions. The 2015 season saw MIT reach No. 3 in the national rankings, the highest placement under his tutelage. The Engineers also advanced to the Grand Finals at the 2015 EARC Sprints for the second year in a row, marking their first back-to-back appearances since 1997.

Before MIT

He joined the Engineers following a one-year stint as an assistant coach with Georgetown University’s men’s heavyweight team. Before this, Oliver-Milchman returned to his alma mater, the University of Virginia, as the Men’s Freshman Coach for one year before being promoted to the men’s crew head coach position. During his three-year tenure, Oliver-Milchman’s crews finished as high as 15th nationally among Division I schools.

Other Experiences

After college, he spent one season coaching prep school boys at the Bryanston School in Dorset, England.

Education

A 2004 graduate of the University of Virginia, Oliver-Milchman was a team captain and three-year first boat rower for the Cavaliers.