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Head CoachAndy Card E-mail: andrew.card@yale.edu Phone: (203) 432-1409 Fax: (203) 432-7772 Address: P.O. Box 208216, New Haven, CT 06520-8216 Hometown: Lynnfield, MA College: Princeton University (1985) 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.
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 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 (4th) and Harvard (6th). 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). Joe graduated from Yale in 2006 as
a double major in Economics and Anthropology. Second
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