Indiana University Athletics
Women's Rowing

Kim Chavers
- Title:
- Novice Coach
- Email:
- kchavers@indiana.edu
- Phone:
- (812) 856-1156
Chavers is in her third season working with the novice rowers at Indiana after joining the program prior to the 2015-16 season.
In her first season with Indiana, the First Novice Eight finished seventh at the Big Ten Championship and the Second Novice Eight finished sixth.
The 2017 season saw the First Novice Eight improve by two spots at the Big Ten Championshp, earning a fifth place finish. Chavers also signed a diverse group of 23 incoming novice's that have a variety of athletic experience at the high school level.
Before arriving in Bloomington, Chavers spent the 2014-15 season as an assistant coach at Stetson University.
Prior to Stetson, she was the boy’s varsity head coach at Bishop O’Connell High School in Arlington, Virginia. The teams there qualified for the national championships both seasons Chavers was there and finished first or second in their conference both seasons as well.
She also has experience as a novice girls coach at Boston Latin School in Massachusetts and was an instructor at the Capital Rowing Club in Washington, D.C. She rowed on the collegiate level at Marietta College in Ohio, where she graduated in 2008. She would go on to earn her doctorate in Physical Therapy from Northeastern in 2012.
Chavers and her husband, Kyle, have two daughters and live in Bloomington.
In her first season with Indiana, the First Novice Eight finished seventh at the Big Ten Championship and the Second Novice Eight finished sixth.
The 2017 season saw the First Novice Eight improve by two spots at the Big Ten Championshp, earning a fifth place finish. Chavers also signed a diverse group of 23 incoming novice's that have a variety of athletic experience at the high school level.
Before arriving in Bloomington, Chavers spent the 2014-15 season as an assistant coach at Stetson University.
Prior to Stetson, she was the boy’s varsity head coach at Bishop O’Connell High School in Arlington, Virginia. The teams there qualified for the national championships both seasons Chavers was there and finished first or second in their conference both seasons as well.
She also has experience as a novice girls coach at Boston Latin School in Massachusetts and was an instructor at the Capital Rowing Club in Washington, D.C. She rowed on the collegiate level at Marietta College in Ohio, where she graduated in 2008. She would go on to earn her doctorate in Physical Therapy from Northeastern in 2012.
Chavers and her husband, Kyle, have two daughters and live in Bloomington.


