In 2008, Andy Card enters his twentieth year with the Yale lightweight crew and his nineteenth as the varsity coach. A remarkable campaign in 2005 saw Card's 150s win their third national championship in six years. Over the course of his 27 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.

From 2000 to 2005, Andy Card's Yale Lightweights had a remarkable run of success:

• Won the 2005 IRA National Championship for the third time in six years
• Won the 2002 IRA National Championship for the second time in three years
• Won the 2002 Jope Cup for overall lightweight team supremacy two years in a row
•  Won the 2002 Eastern Sprints in the 1V, 1F, and 3V, with a silver in the 2V
                                                      
• Won the 2001 Eastern Sprints in the 1V and 2V, setting course records in both events
• Won the 2001 Jope Cup for overall lightweight team supremacy
• Won 13 medals out of 15 chances in three years at Sprints (6 golds, 6 silvers, and 1 bronze)
• Won the Lightweight 8+ at the Head of the Charles two years in a row (2000 & 2001). The 2000 crew was the first collegiate lightweight crew to win the Charles since 1979.
• Won the 2000 Temple Challenge Cup at Henley Royal Regatta, the first collegiate lightweight crew to win at Henley since 1974
• Won the 2000 IRA National Championship
• Won three straight Goldthwait Cups (H-Y-P title)
• Three years of undefeated varsity regular season records, including the San Diego Crew Classic in 2000 & 2002
• 2001 regular season record of 34-1 for five crews (V, 2V, 3V, 1F, 2F)
• Top collegiate finisher at the 1999 Head of the Charles, 1999 and 2000 Head of the Schuylkill, and the 1999 Princeton Chase

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.

Card has had coaching success on the international level as well. At the 1993 World Rowing Championships at Roudnice, Czech Republic, Card’s U.S. Lightweight 4- won the gold medal, the first gold medal ever for the United States in that event. Most recently, Card helped coach the USA Men's Lightweight 8+ to a Worlds silver in 1998 and America's first gold medal since 1973 at St. Catharine's in 1999.

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. 

Card also served as the Princeton freshman lightweight coach for two seasons (1986 & 1987) following his graduation. Both years the Tiger freshmen went undefeated and took Eastern Sprint titles.
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Assistant Coach 
Joe Fallon BK '06
Hometown: Marlton, NJ
College: Yale University (2006)
e-mail: joseph.fallon@yale.edu
phone: (203) 432-1409

Joe Fallon returns for his sixth year of involvement with the Yale Men’s Lightweight Crew team and second as coach of the Eli freshmen. In 2007, his inaugural season, Joe led his top-ranked first freshman boat to a gold medal at the Eastern Sprints and a 9-1 regular season record. The second freshman boat also performed admirably, winning the HYP title and a bronze medal at the Sprints. Joe’s freshmen also competed at the IRA in the men’s freshman four with coxswain race, an event filled with both lightweight and heavyweight crews from across the country. The Yale 1F 4+ won the silver medal behind a talented heavyweight crew from California.  In finishing second, the Yale Lightweights maintained their undefeated status against perennial lightweight rivals Princeton (4^th) and Harvard (6^th).

The freshmen have excelled under Joe’s tutelage in his two fall racing seasons.  At the Belly of the Carnegie in 2006, the lightweight freshmen recorded Yale’s best combined-time finish in the history of the regatta, finishing second to the U.S. Naval Academy. A spirited group of freshman in 2007 also finished second, only 3.8 seconds behind first place in combined-time. This performance helped Yale win the Belly Bowl for the first time since 1998.  The Belly Bowl is awarded to the team with the fastest combined times from all 3 teams (lightweight, heavyweight and women).

 While at Yale as an undergraduate, Joe rowed under Andy Card on the first varsity beginning his sophomore year and was elected Captain as a senior. As a Yale lightweight oarsman, Joe has competed and won at the highest level of collegiate lightweight rowing.  Joe’s varsity boat won the gold medal at the 2005 IRA National Championship Regatta after finishing a close second at the EARC Sprints. The National Championship performance earned Joe’s crew a trip to the Henley Royal Regatta in Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, England, where they competed against an accomplished international field in the Temple Challenge Cup. The crew raced its way to the Finals, where they fell to Trinity College, USA. Joe’s Eastern Sprints history includes a one silver and two bronze medals. In the coxless four event at the 2004 IRA, Joe and three other sophomores won the silver medal in a thrilling come-from-behind race.

Joe graduated from Yale in 2006 as a double major in Economics and Anthropology.  
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Second Assistant Coach
Scott Wisniewski
Scott comes to Yale as the second assistant for Y150 after a five-year stint with Undine Barge Club on Boathouse Row in Philadelphia. 

While at Undine, Scott trained to some success as a lightweight oar, winning nearly a dozen National Championship medals, and Canadian Henley gold. In 2006 he competed at the World Championship Trials in the Lightweight Quad finishing 2nd on day two of the competition. 

Scott comes to Yale with strong experiences as an assistant coach for Conestoga High School and as Program Director for Fall and Winter training at the Bachelors Barge Club. 

While at Conestoga Scott helped produce 3 Stotesbury Cup winners and a National Championship. He has coached athletes that have gone on to row at Yale, Dartmouth, Penn, Brown, and Trinity College and competed at such regattas as the U-23 World Championships and the Henley Women's Regatta.

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