Tom Siddall joined the Harvard heavyweight men’s staff in March of 2023, after coaching at Tufts University the previous four years. The 2025-26 campaign will mark his fourth with the Crimson as an assistant coach and director of recruiting.
Siddall 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. Siddall also led the Crimson to a sweep at the 158th Harvard-Yale Regatta.
Following a three-year stint as an assistant coach with the Jumbos, Siddall was named Tufts' associate head coach of men’s rowing the summer of 2022. Coaching with Jumbos head coach George Munger, the duo enjoyed a great run, culminating in all four eights competing in the NIRC grand final in the spring of 2022. That year, the fourth eight took gold, while the second eight earned bronze. The varsity eight ended the season with a historic silver-medal performance at the inaugural Division III IRA National Championship. The 2020 and 2021 Spring seasons, however, were both affected by the pandemic, though some informal racing occurred in 2021.
In addition to his role at Harvard, Siddall is a part of the US Rowing para high performance staff and will coach the PR3 4+ for Worlds in Belgrade, Serbia in early September 2023. He also manages the US Rowing Boston Training Center, providing support to senior level athletes training in the Boston area. In previous work with US Rowing, Siddall coached ODP Camps, ID Camps, Youth Regional Challenge, under-19 Selection Camp, and completed his Level 3 Coaching Certification in Spring of 2021.
While living in the Greater Boston area, Siddall has also been involved with Union Boat Club, Community Rowing, and Cambridge Boat Club as a strength & conditioning coach and rowing coach at the junior, under-23, and master's levels.
During the 2018-19 season, Siddall spent the year as an intern assistant with the heavyweight men at Harvard. During this time, he completed a graduate certificate at the Institute for Rowing Leadership (IRL) out of Community Rowing, Inc., while coaching the fifth heavyweight eight; culminating in every heavyweight boat medaling at Eastern Sprints.
Prior to Harvard and the IRL, Siddall was an assistant coach for three years with the UMass Amherst men’s rowing program; as well as the head coach of the Pioneer Valley Riverfront Club’s rowing programs.
Siddall was a four-year member and three-year captain of the men’s rowing program at Fairfield University, where in that time he got his start coaching at Maritime Rowing Club in Norwalk, Conn. Attending Holyoke Catholic High School in western Massachusetts, Siddall grew up in South Hadley and started rowing on the Connecticut River out if the Mount Holyoke Community Boathouse.
