Not much about Bernhard Stomporowski, the director of rowing and head coach of the Sarasota Scullers, is traditional.
Not his credentials — the 56-year-old “Stompo” is an Olympic rower and world champion from Germany, and has coached the sport in Switzerland, China, Brazil and California among other stops — and certainly not his way of telling stories, or the contents of those stories.
To wit: asked about his origins in the sport, Stomporowski paused before he spoke.
“Do you know the band the Sex Pistols?” Stomporowski said. “I love the Sex Pistols.”
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