In 2010, Andy Card enters his twenty-second year with the Yale lightweight crew and his twenty-first as the varsity coach. 2009 was a memorable year, with a stunning varsity silver medal at the IRA, and an undefeated second varsity EARC Sprints championship, as well as bronze medals for the 1F and 3V. 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.

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 
Colin Farrell
Hometown: Shrewsbury, MA
College: Cornell University (2005)
e-mail: colin.farrell@yale.edu
phone: (203) 432-1409 office  (609) 313-0668 - mobile

Colin Farrell, three-time national team oarsman and 2008 World Champion in the lightweight eight, has been named the freshman lightweight coach for the Yale 150s. Head coach Andy Card made the announcement Thursday. 

A 2005 graduate of Cornell University, Farrell was a thee-time member of the Cornell lightweight varsity eight and stroked the lightweight varsity to back-to-back 8-1 regular seasons, as well as a bronze medal at Eastern Sprints and a silver medal at the IRA, both in 2005. Farrell was a two-time captain of the lightweight crew. Before coming to Yale, Farrell spent a year as the Men's Heavyweight Crew Intern at Cornell University. Farrell coached the Third Varsity Heavyweight 8+ to an undefeated regular season and third place finish at Eastern Sprints. He also coached the JV Heavyweight 8+ and Open 4+ in preparation for the IRA and played an integral role in helping the varsity heavyweight crews achieve a 19-1 record during the regular season. 

Prior to coaching at Cornell, Farrell was a member of the U.S. National Team and competed at three World Championships and two World Cups. He won a gold medal at the 2008 World Championships in the lightweight 8+, finished sixth in the lightweight 4- at the 2007 World Cup in Linz, Austria, and 11th at the 2007 World Championships, qualifying the U.S. men's lightweight 4- for the 2008 Olympics. Competing in numerous elite level national regattas, Farrell won the NSR II in the lightweight 2- in 2008 and the USRowing National Championships in the lightweight 4- in 2007.

 "Colin will bring to Yale a breadth of experience from high school novice rowing to the world championship medal stand", head coach Andy Card said. "He has made the journey himself, and in our conversations it was clear he's eager to help this generation of Yale lightweights fulfill their potential." 

While training with the National Team, Farrell coached the novice men at Mercer Junior Rowing Club and later served as the Varsity Men's Assistant Coach. Among other achievements during his two and a half years with MJRC, Farrell helped the varsity 8+ and varsity lightweight 4+ qualify for the U.S. Rowing Youth Invitational in Cincinnati. 

Farrell began his rowing career in high school at St. Joseph's Preparatory School and continued rowing at Cornell. In addition to Farrell's collegiate accomplishments listed above, Cornell Athletic Director Andy Noel presented him with the Mario St. George Boiardi '04 Leadership Award, established in memory of lacrosse captain George Boiardi '04. This award is given to the senior athlete who embodies leadership, athleticism, and a strong work ethic. Farrell graduated from Cornell in 2005 with a bachelor's degree in psychology.

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