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.