Coach Margie has been a member of Whitemarsh Boat Club since 2008 and competed as a masters rower for several years. She became a youth rowing coach in 2021 with the WBC Tech Team. She is also a coach and volunteer for We Can Row Philadelphia (a rowing program for breast cancer survivors) which operates out of Whitemarsh. In 2023 she became a coach with the Youth Race Team working mostly with the novice and U16 girls.
Margie learned to row at Seattle Parks and Rec in 1993. She went on to row competitively with several clubs in the Seattle area including Green Lake, Lake Union, Lake Washington, and Seattle Pacific University before moving back to the Philadelphia area in 2006