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 Head CoachAndy Card E-mail: andrew.card@yale.edu Phone: (203) 494-7551 Fax: (203) 432-7772 Att'n: Andy Card Address: P.O. Box 208216, New Haven, CT 06520-8216 Hometown: Lynnfield, MA College: Princeton University (1985) In
2009, Andy Card enters his
twenty-first year with the Yale lightweight crew and his twentieth as the
varsity coach. 2008 saw a double-bronze at Sprints and IRAs for the
varsity, and a second consecutive freshman Sprints title. A remarkable campaign in 2005 saw Card's 150s win their
third national championship in six years. Over the course of his 28 years
as a rower and a coach, Card has become well acquainted with the Jope Cup,
symbolic of overall lightweight team supremacy in the EARC, winning it
eleven times since 1981. The 2002 Jope Cup victory was Yale’s first ever
repeat win of the Jope, and Yale’s fifth overall since Card arrived in
New Haven in 1988. Card's crews have won three varsity Sprints titles
(1990, 2001, and 2002) and four IRA national championship titles (1990,
2000, 2002, and 2005). Additionally, Card's 2000 varsity lightweights won
something that no other collegiate lightweight crew can claim: a clean run
through the field to claim the Temple Challenge Cup at Henley Royal
Regatta. That Yale win was the only time a collegiate lightweight crew has
won that event since the Temple's inception in 1990, and it was the first
time a collegiate lightweight crew had won at Henley since
1978. Card's 2005 varsity edition made it to the finals -- only the
fourth lightweight crew to do so -- but lost to the heavyweight varsity
from Trinity College Hartford.
Card began his varsity head coaching career in 1990 by leading the Yale lightweights to an undefeated season and first place at the EARC Sprints and the National Championship before traveling to the Henley Royal Regatta in England. During the 1991 and 1992 seasons, the Elis won two additional Harvard-Yale-Princeton races, marking the first time since 1930-1932 that Yale had captured three straight Goldthwait Cups. Card’s J.V. crews have won the Sprints four times and have also been to Henley. The most recent trip to Henley in 2001 saw the Yale 2V make it to the semi-final of four crews in the Temple Challenge Cup before losing, going farther than four EARC varsity lightweight crews in the draw.
A 1985 graduate of Princeton,
Card rowed on three Eastern Sprints Championship crews. While serving as captain in his
senior year, the varsity eight went undefeated and won both the Eastern Sprints and
Kennedy Cup (IRA). In addition, he represented the Tigers on two trips to Henley in 1983
and 1985. Prior to attending Princeton, he had no competitive rowing
experience. Assistant Coach Patrick Tynan Hometown: Shrewsbury, MA College: University of Masssachusetts (1999) e-mail: patrick. tynan@yale.edu phone: (203) 432-1409 office (413) 207-1539 mobile A 1999 graduate of UMass with a degree in exercise science, Tynan comes to the 150s from his alma mater, where he worked as an assistant coach for the women's crew in 2007-2008. In 2006, Tynan was named Acting Head Women's Coach at Williams, and the Williams women's crew responded to his leadership by winning both the team and Varsity 8+ titles at the 2007 NCAA Division III Championship. "What Patrick did at Williams -- taking over a talented team and getting them to raise their game further -- is testament to his leadership and inspiration," said Card. "This is a great hire for Yale, and Pat and I have already started to work hard on the 2009 season. I can't wait for the guys to meet Pat and welcome him to the Y150 family." Prior to Williams, Tynan spent six seasons coaching the men's and women's freshmen crews at Colby. In 2001, 2004 and 2005 his women's crews went undefeated and won Gold medals at the New England Rowing Championships and the ECAC National Collegiate Invitational Regattas. Before his arrival at Colby, Tynan spent two years as the assistant coach for the Men's Crew at UMass, where his crews medalled at the New England and Atlantic-10 Rowing Championships. During his two years at UMass, Tynan also served as an assistant coach at Deerfield Academy in Deerfield, Mass. Tynan's rowing career began in 1990 at St. John's High School in Shrewsbury, Mass., and continued at the University of Massachusetts. He rowed in UMass' varsity lightweight eight for four years, earning numerous medals at the New England Rowing Championships and the Champion International Collegiate Regattas. After graduating in 1999 with a degree in exercise science, Tynan spent the summer with the US Lightweight Development Team at Riverside Boat Club in Boston, winning three medals at the American Rowing Championships. Tynan takes over for Yale's own Joe Fallon
'06, who guided the freshmen lightweights to two Sprints championships
during his tenure. Joe graduated from Yale in 2006 as
a double major in Economics and Anthropology. Assistant Coach Ryan Sparks Hometown: Dallas, TX College: Bates (2005) e-mail: ryan.sparks@yale.edu phone: (203) 432-1409 office (214) 214-0111 mobile Ryan comes to Y150 from Bates College where he helped coach both the men and women's first and second varsity boats - including leading the men's team to a grand final finish at the ECAC National Championships and placing in the top three nationally in Division III, a first for the program. Ryan has coached on every level of the sport from junior novices to pre-elites. He has worked with four different national rowing federations and held coaching jobs on three continents. Ryan just returned from Beijing this summer, where he did consulting work in conjunction with the Chinese rowing community prior to the 2008 Olympic Games. He worked as a coaching intern with elements of the German team prior to the 2004 Athens Games. A Bates graduate, Ryan also assisted with the men's program at Wesleyan, sweeping the silver medals at the 2007 New England Rowing Championships. Prior to his time at Wesleyan, he was the frosh coach at Bates leading both the novice men and women to top four championship finishes. He has also worked with pre-elite and Olympic rowers from New Zealand and the United States. During his six year career in coaching, 88% of the crews he has worked directly with have made grand final appearances in their respective championship racing. Sparks rowed at the Baylor School in Chattanooga, TN before rowing and coaching for the University of Otago (New Zealand) and Bates College as an undergraduate, graduating with a degree in history. He hopes to enter the School of Management at Yale to pursue an MBA. |
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