Patrick Lapage enters his 13th season with the Harvard men's heavyweight crew team in 2025-26, and his first as associate head coach.
Lapage helped lead the Crimson to an Eastern Sprints victory in 2024-25, the programs first since the 2014 season. The first, second, and third varsity eights claimed victory at sprints. The first and second varsity eight earned silver at the IRA Championships, while the third eight claimed the IRA championship title. Lapage also led the Crimson to a sweep at the 158th Harvard-Yale Regatta.
Having coached the 2V since 2017, Lapage has led the Crimson to top-5 national finishes in nine of the last 10 seasons. In his first year directing the group, Harvard finished in fourth place at the 2017 Eastern Sprints and fifth at the IRA National Championship, only to flip the results 12 months later (5th at Eastern Sprints, 4th at IRAs). In 2019, Lapage helped the Crimson win the Eastern Sprints title, the Harvard-Yale race and the Prince Albert Challenge Cup at the Henley Royal Regatta. More recently, Lapage coached the boat to a victory at the 2023 Eastern Sprints and a fourth-place performance at IRAs.
Prior to taking over the 2V, Lapage coached the 3V and 4V from 2013-16. In 2015, Lapage guided the 3V to a silver medal at IRAs and the 4V to the Grand Final, with both crews winning the Harvard-Yale race. The next season, he coached both boats to a silver at Eastern Sprints and the 3V to a second-place finish at IRAs, culminating with the third varsity defeating rival Yale.
A 2012 Harvard graduate, Lapage joined the heavyweight staff for the 2013-14 season. Lapage, a first-team All-Ivy League selection in 2010 and 2011, helped the Crimson varsity eight to a bronze medal at the 2012 IRA National Championships, locking up Harvard's second-straight top-three national finish.
With Lapage in the stroke seat, Harvard completed a perfect dual season for the varsity eight, including the squad's fifth-straight sweep of Yale. At EARC Sprints, the Crimson V8 took second by less than a half second and contributed to the Rowe Cup win.
In the summer of 2021, he assisted then-Harvard assistant coach Jesse Foglia at USRowing's Men's U23 National Team Selection Camp.
A native of Shrewsbury, England, Lapage has also seen international success. Lapage won a bronze medal racing with Great Britain's eight at the World Rowing U23 Championships in Amsterdam and also took home bronze with the men's coxed four at the 2010 World Rowing U23 Championships in Brest, Belarus.
