Bryce’s passion for racing on the water began in Honolulu, Hawaii where he was a high school athlete in kayaking and outrigger canoe paddling. His rowing career began in 2005 when he joined the rowing club at the University of Notre Dame as a coxswain and lightweight rower. After graduating from college, Bryce moved to Atlanta, GA where he became a masters coach at the Atlanta Rowing Club from 2011 – 2020, head coach of Georgia State University from 2014 – 2018, and served on the Atlanta Rowing Club board in a variety of roles. For Bryce, rowing is a sport that is accessible to everyone regardless of age, capability, gender, income, or race. Throughout his rowing career, he has worked to actively extend involvement and leadership opportunities to all audiences.

Upon moving to Atlanta, Bryce started the Atlanta Rowing Club’s adaptive rowing program that now serves more than 30 athletes weekly under the leadership of Jason Beagle. Following his success with adaptive rowers, he was appointed as the Coaching Committee Chair in 2011. From 2012 – 2015, Bryce was elected as the First Vice-President and worked with members and the board to increase the club’s membership by 30%, improve program enrollment by 25%, and triple recruitment from Learn to Row. From 2016 – 2019, Bryce served as the President of ARC and worked with the community and the board to continue to support the club’s programs and to begin implementing the club’s long-term strategic plan. Bryce’s involvement with the Head of the Hooch® regatta started when he worked with the late Regatta Director Daniel Wolff to rejuvenate the adaptive and para events. Bryce now serves as the liaison between the Hooch’s race committee and the Atlanta Rowing Club.

Bryce’s coaching career started with para and adaptive rowers in 2011. In 2013, Bryce started coaching recreational members of the Atlanta Rowing Club and learned how to apply his experiences from the four-year cycle of collegiate competition to the long-term cadence of masters rowing. Looking to get back into the competitive edge, Bryce started coaching a mixed competitive team at Atlanta Rowing Club and built a roster of more than 30 athletes taking them from last place to national gold medals in the men’s and women’s 4+ events in 2019 plus back-to-back gold medals in the mixed 8+ at the Head of the Hooch in 2018 and 2019. In 2014, Bryce began coaching at Georgia State University and led the team to win gold, silver, and bronze medals in the southeast. Because of the smaller roster with students from diverse economic, gender, and racial backgrounds, Bryce focused on 4+s and attributes the team’s success to a culture of inclusion and teamwork.