Wesley Ng enters his fourth season as head women's rowing coach at Trinity, as he begins his sixth year at the College. Ng guided the 2009 Bantam varsity eight to a third place finish in the NCAA Div. III Championship Regatta after leading the 2008 varsity eight squad to their second NCAA Division III Varsity Eight National Championship crown as the fastest boat in all of Division III rowing in 2008.  His team finished the season with a 12-1 varsity eight dual record and placed third in both the New England Championships and the NCAA Division III Championship Regatta.  The Bantams are 27-1 in the past two season after recording with a best-ever, 15-0 varsity eight dual record in 2008. 

Ng's first two years at Trinity were spent guiding Trinity's novice men to two undefeated spring seasons.  In his first year as women's varsity coach, Ng led the 2007 Bantams to a 9-2 record, second place in the New England Championships and the New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC) Championships, and a qualification in the grand final in the Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) National Invitational Regatta. The Bantams qualified for their fifth straight NCAA Division III National Championship Regatta, finishing second in the grand final and a best-ever second in the Overall Points Standings.

Ng graduated from Yale with a bachelor's degree in history and is a master's degree candidate in public policy studies at Trinity. As a collegian, Ng helped Yale win three Eastern Sprints Championships and the IRA National Championship title in 2002. In his first two years at Trinity, Ng's first and second novice crews at Trinity posted a 19-0 record with New England and ECAC National Invitational Championship titles in both 2005 and 2006. Prior to Trinity, Ng coached the freshman lightweight men's crews and assisted with the women's crew teams at Yale University over two seasons.

Melissa Schomers joins the Trinity women's rowing team as a development coach and recruiting coordinator.  Schomers joins the Bantams from the University of Iowa where she served as an assistant coach working with the novice squad and the varsity fours.   Schomers also worked as a learn-to-row coach for the University of Iowa Recreation Services, and as a volunteer coach and rigger for the Old Capital Rowing Club.

Schomers earned her bachelor's degree in English (with honors) at the University of Iowa, where she was a member of the rowing team.  She is currently pursuing her master's degree in English and resides in Hartford, Conn. 

"I firmly believe in the opportunities and lessons that this sport offers young women both as students and as athletes," she said.  "There are many great aspects of this sport that lend themselves to excellence on the water and in the classroom."

Pam Besteman begins her fourth year as assistant coach and recruiting coordinator at Trinity College. Coming from Eastern Michigan University, where she was head coach of women's rowing for three years Pam brings a wealth of Division I, club level, and master's rowing experience to the position. Pam also contributed as an assistant coach at George Mason University and the University of Michigan.

Pam earned a bachelor's degree in physical education from Grand Valley while rowing and coxing and earned a master's degree from Eastern Michigan in individualized studies while she was an assistant coach (3 years) and head coach (3 years). While rowing at Grand Valley her lightweight 8+ won a Midwest Championship title in 1994 and a silver medal at the 1995 Dad Vail Regatta.

Under her guidance, freshmen rowers are developing a base of knowledge and a love of the sport that they are applying on the varsity level. Two of Pam's first novice 8+ rowers from the 2006-2007 season stepped into a varsity eight as sophomores that went 15-0 and won the New Englands, NCAAs, and the Henley Women's Regatta.

Pam is an accomplished and dedicated single sculler who continues to train and compete on the fall and summer rowing circuits. She currently resides in Glastonbury, Conn. with her husband Brian Tryon.