Marlene Royle is one of the world’s best-known masters rowing coach.

She has been at the forefront of training older athletes since 1999 when she started Roylerow.com business leading rowing camps and writing custom performance training programs.

More recently she co-founded Faster Masters Rowing and now hosts a weekly live broadcast podcast where older athletes get their questions answered such as how to row in rough water, ways to manage SI Joint impairment and drills to learn correct feathering technique. Marlene is a registered occupational therapist with a specialty in hand therapy. She is the director of adult rowing for Aviron Knowlton Rowing Club in Quebec, Canada.

She is a sought-after speaker and journalist writing for Rowing News, Row2k, as well as, leading workshops and keynotes for US Rowing events.