Phone: 203-432-1413
E-Mail: john.pescatore@yale.edu

Hometown: Ocean City, NJ
College: University of Pennsylvania, 1986

John Pescatore was named head coach on August 28, 2002.  Before coming to Yale, Pescatore was an assistant coach at the University of  Pennsylvania in the spring of 2002 and the head coach of the Vesper Boat Club in Philadelphia, the most successful club program in the Unites States for placing athletes on National and Olympic rowing teams.  Prior to that, he served as the assistant coach for the United States Olympic Rowing Team  in Princeton, N.J., and coached the men's coxless pair to a silver medal in the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney, Australia. For his efforts in Sydney, Pescatore was named the 2000 U.S. Rowing Coach of the Year.  

As an oarsman, Pescatore won a Bronze Medal in the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul, Korea, as the stroke for the U.S. heavyweight eight and was also the stroke for the U.S. pair without coxswain that placed sixth in the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona, Spain.  In addition, he was the stroke for the heavyweight eight that captured the Gold Medal at the 1987 World Championships in Copenhagen, Denmark.

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Mark Davis - Freshman Coach

Prospective student-athletes please contact Coach Pescatore at john.pescatore@yale.edu

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