Coaches
Will Porter - Women’s
Camp Co-Director
Will has been involved in rowing for 23 years. Will’s career as a national
team oarsman was highlighted by a silver medal race in the 4- at the Pan
American Games in 1991 and a bronze medal performance in the 8+ at the World
Championships in 1993. Will successfully coached at Stanford University, Rutgers
University and Dartmouth College before he came to Yale as the novice women's
coach. In 1999 Will was named Head Coach of the Yale Women's Crew. In the
99-00 season the Yale Varsity raced to a regular season record of 7-3 and
qualified for the NCAA Championship. Since '00 the Yale varsity has gone 32-12
with 5 consecutive NCAA Championship appearances, finishing as high as 2nd in
2004. He has been named New England Coach of the Year by the College Rowing
Coaches Association in 2002 and 2004. Will’s crews have won medals at the
Eastern Sprints Championships and the NCAA Championship, they have also
won the Intercollegiate Championship and Women's Henley. Will's varsity won the EAWRC Sprints in 2005 for the first time since 1979, and
Will was named EAWRC Coach of the Year for 2005. In 2007, the Yale Varsity Women
had a completely undefeated season, winning every race, including the EAWRC
Sprints and the NCAA Women's Varsity Eight.
Andy Card
- Men's Camp
Co-Director
Andy Card is in his
18th year as Men's Lightweight Crew Coach at Yale. His Yale varsity lightweight
crews have won the US National Collegiate Championship three out of the last six
years, most recently in 2005. As
both the mentor for the Yale Lightweight Crew and as a U.S. National Team coach,
his crews have won gold medals at the Sprints, the IRA Collegiate National
Championships, the Head of the Charles, Henley Royal Regatta, and the World
Championships. Coach Card has won every gold medal there is to win in rowing,
save an Olympic gold. As captain of the 1985 lightweight crew at Princeton,
Coach Card won the Sprints three years out of four years, including an undefeated
championship season in his senior year, including winning the Kennedy Cup at the
IRA. Before assuming the head coaching duties
at Yale, Card coached the Princeton freshman lightweight crew to two undefeated
championship seasons.
Wesley Ng 
Wes is the head coach
of the women's rowing program at Trinity College in Hartford. Prior to his head
coaching appointment, Wes was the mentor for the Trinity novice men,
leading the Bantams to two undefeated spring seasons. Wes is a 2002 graduate of
Yale and was a four-year letter-winner with the men's lightweight crew program,
where he enjoyed success after success: three Sprints titles, a Sprints record
that still stands in the 2V event, and an IRA national championship. After
graduation, Wes also served as an assistant coach to the women's program at Yale
and as the freshman coach for the Yale men's lightweight crew. Wes has been with
the Bulldog Rowing Camp from the very beginning.
Kate Maloney
Kate
started rowing in 1992 for Mt. Baker Rowing in Seattle. The next year she
enrolled at the University of Washington and started an impressive string of 4
undefeated regular seasons and four Pac-10 Championships with the Huskies.
Paralleling her collegiate rowing success Kate spent her summers rowing with the
USA National Team racing at the Nations Cup Regatta. In 1995 she won a bronze in
the pair at Groningen NED, in 1996 she won a gold in the straight four at
Hazewinkel Bel. Upon graduation from UW Kate moved on to the USA Senior National
Team and began racing at the World Championships. In 1997 she raced in the 4-,
in 1998 she was in the USA 8+ that won a silver in Colonge Germany, in 1999
again she won a silver with the USA 8+ in St. Catharines ONT. Finally, Kate
finished her competitive racing career at the Sydney 2000 Olympics where she
rowed in the USA 8+. Kate has coached rowing at every level from high school,
college to masters. She started coaching at ZLAC in San Diego and has since
coached at CRI and Northeastern University in Boston. At Northeastern in
2002-2003 Kate was the second assistant working mostly with the third varsity.
Most recently Kate was coaching at Lake Union Crew in Seattle. At Yale Kate is
the recruiting coordinator and works mostly with the novice women.
Pat Tynan 
For the 2006-2007 season Pat is the
interim the Head Women’s Coach at
Williams
College. Prior
to that he spent six seasons coaching the Men's and Women's Freshmen Crews at Colby. In
2001, 2004 and 2005 Pat's 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, Pat was the assistant coach at the
University
of
Massachusetts
for two years, where his crews medalled in the
New England
and Atlantic-10 Rowing Championships. During his two years at U-Mass, Pat also
served as an assistant coach at
Deerfield
Academy
in Deerfield,
Mass.
Pat's rowing career began
in 1990 at
St. John's
High School
in
Shrewsbury,
Mass., and continued at the University
of
Massachusetts
where he rowed in the varsity lightweight eight for four years earning numerous
medals at the New England Rowing Championships and the Champion International
Collegiate Regattas. After graduating in 1998 with a degree in exercise science,
Pat spent the summer with the US Lightweight Development Team at Riverside Boat
Club in Boston, winning three medals at the American Rowing Championships.