Team Details

Jeff returns as the Head Coach of the Varsity Wrestling program after serving in the same role at Thayer from 2009-2013. A native of Sanford, Maine, Kent attended his local high school before completing a postgraduate year at Phillips Andover Academy. There, he was a multi-sport athlete in football and wrestling and earned third-place honors at the National Prep Wrestling Championships in 1986. Shortly after graduation from Bowdoin College where he also played football and wrestled, Kent began his tenure as an independent school educator teaching mathematics and coaching wrestling and football at Hyde School in Maine. He served as the head coach of the Wolfpack’s football and wrestling programs from 1991 until 1997 before taking time away from the independent school world to pursue a career as a financial advisor. Prior to his initial time coaching at Thayer, Kent taught and coached down the road in Braintree at Archbishop Williams High School from 2003 until 2010. During those his first tenure at Thayer, Kent successfully built the Tigers into a competitive wrestling program. He helped to develop 20 place winners in the ISL tournament, including two ISL champions. Jeff also serves as an Assistant Coach for the Varsity Football program.

John joined Thayer Athletics in the fall of 2021. Currently, he is the Head Coach of the Varsity Crew team as well as an Assistant Coach for the Varsity Wrestling team. John earned his bachelor’s degree from St. Joseph’s University where he started his rowing career as a walk on coxswain. He eventually became the Varsity Heavyweight Coxswain and his crew went on the win a bronze medal at the Dad Vail Regatta in 1996. John enjoys rowing his 1x boat recreationally at Green Harbor River Rowing Club and at Mousam Lake in Maine. Outside of rowing, John has a history of coaching wrestling at the youth level in Hanover. John wrestled in the early 90’s for Salesianum School in Wilmington, DE and more recently was the co-founder of Hanover Youth Wrestling in 2010. He helped build Hanover youth wrestling from 12 wrestlers to one of the largest wrestling youth wrestling programs in Massachusetts. When he's not coaching, John works as an industry professional in the sport of rowing and his company manufactures rowing equipment for some of the most prestigious universities and national federations in the sport. He lives in Hanover with his wife and 4 kids.