Connor Walters - Men's Rowing Coach - Syracuse University Athletics

Connor Walters

Title:
Associate Head Coach/Recruiting Coordinator
Email:
cdwalter@syr.edu

Connor Walters joined the Syracuse men’s rowing program as assistant coach and recruiting coordinator prior to the 2022-23 season. In the summer of 2025, he was elevated to Associate Head Coach/Recruiting Coordinator after another successful season on the water with the Orange which saw all four boats reach the grand finals at the IRA Regatta in June.

Walters began his coaching tenure at his alma mater Saint Ignatius High School in Cleveland, Ohio, as an assistant rowing coach in 2014. In 2019, Walters was promoted to head coach, a position he held until joining the Orange.

At Saint Ignatius Walters was tasked with leading a competitive boys scholastic rowing team. He led all aspects of the Saint Ignatius program including overseeing team practices and training with the coaching staff for over 80 athletes.

This past spring, he guided Saint Ignatius to program-best finishes at the Midwest and National Championships and raised over 250,000 dollars from 2019-22 for the program’s capital needs.

Off the water, Walters served as the assistant director of communications for Saint Ignatius since 2014. His responsibilities included overseeing the editorial calendar and all phases of production for the quarterly alumni magazine, maintaining the school’s website, assisting the communications team with social media content creation, and serving as the senior writer and copy editor for stories, profiles and features.

Walters was a contributing writer for ROWING Magazine from 2013-2021 where he reported and published race reports, news updates, profiles, and features on the rowing community.

A 2013 graduate of Marietta College, Walters was a four-year member of the men’s rowing team and served as team captain as a senior. He was a member of the Pioneers lightweight eight that competed in the 2011 IRA National Championship and earned silver in the men’s JV 8+ at the 2010 Dad Vail Regatta.

Walters earned his bachelor’s degree in journalism with minors in English and Spanish and a teacher leadership certificate from Marietta in 2013 and completed his master’s in journalism with a concentration in magazine writing and editing from Northwestern in 2014.