Clare Manthey returned to her alma mater in the fall of 2018 as an assistant coach.
In her first season with Gonzaga, Manthey worked primarily with the varsity four crew. With a young crew with three underclassmen, one senior and a junior coxswain, Manthey helped the Zags to a season-best time of 7:28.82 and a second-place finish in the first race of the Lake Natoma Invitational in mid-April. The crew finished a 2,000-meter race in under 7:45 six times on the season; in its final race of the year, the V4+ came from nearly a boat length behind to walk through Marist and secure a second-place finish in the D Final of the NCAA Championships, good for 20th overall.
Manthey, a captain her senior year, rowed from 2013 to 2017 at Gonzaga, winning two West Coast Conference Championships in the second varsity eight boat and competing in two NCAA National Championships, taking 19th with the second varsity eight in 2017 and 2015. In 2016, she won a WCC Championship and finished 19th at the NCAA Championships with the varsity four.
She spent the 2018 season coaching at Holy Names Academy in Seattle and coached at Rose City Rowing in Portland in the summer of 2017. Manthey also volunteered with Americorps in Seattle with Neighborhood Care, the largest provider of medical care to the low-income population of Seattle, and she specifically worked with the homeless clinics.
Manthey, originally from Portland, graduated from Gonzaga in 2017, majoring in psychology with a minor in biology, earning the Dean’s Scholarship all four years.
