CALIFORNIA Golden Bears 2009 CALIFORNIA MEN’S CREW TABLE OF CONTENTS Quick Facts.......................................... 1 Coaching Staff ..................................2-3 Outlook .............................................4-5 Roster .................................................. 6 Athlete Bios ....................................7-12 2008 Season Recap ..........................13 2008 Race Results ............................14 Award Winners .................................. 15 History ............................................... 16 Cal Cup Results/Championships .......17 International Bears .......................18-19 T. Gary Rogers Boathouse ................20 Briones Reservoir/Erg Facility ...........21 The University...............................22-23 GENERAL INFORMATION Academic Support .............................24 Schedule........................................... BC Location: Berkeley, Calif. Founded: 1868 Enrollment: 34,953 CREDITS Nickname: Golden Bears The 2009 Men’s Crew Media Guide Mascot: Oski was written and edited by Assistant Media Colors: Blue (282) and Gold (116) Relations Director Dean Caparaz with Conference: Pacifi c-10 assistance from Caitlin Oriel. Layout and Chancellor: Dr. Robert J Birgeneau graphics by Senior Publications Director Athletic Director: Sandy Barbour John Dunbar and Publications Coordina- Assistant Athletic Director/Sport Supervisor: Liz Miles tor Evan Kerr. Offi cial Cal Athletics Web Site: www.CalBears.com Photography provided by Michael Cal Crew Web Site: www.CalCrew.com Pimentel, John Todd, Kelley Cox, Evan Kerr, Zach Franzen, Sharon Collier, TEAM INFORMATION Richard Ersted, Doug Swanson, Kaelyn Gibson, Dave Olson and Nicole Younts. 2008 IRA National Championships Finish: 3rd Printing by UC Printing, Berkeley, 2008 Pac-10 Championships Finish: 2nd Calif. Letterwinners: Returning/Lost: 13/7 Copies of this guide may be purchased Newcomers: 17 by the public at a cost of $6.00 (including postage and handling) through the Media COACHING STAFF Relations Offi ce. Please make checks payable to “UC Regents.” Head Coach: Mike Teti (1st year, St. Joseph’s ’78) Offi ce Phone: (510) 533-8931; E-Mail: [email protected] Offi ce: T. Gary Rogers Boathouse, 2999 Glascock Street, Oakland, CA 94601 Freshman Coach: Geoff Bond BEAR BACKERS (510) 533-8941; [email protected] Assistant Coach & Director of Recruiting: Michael Vallarelli SUPPORT (510) 533-8957; [email protected] Assistant Varsity Coach: Luke Agnini YOUR TEAM (510) 642-3284; [email protected] Bear Backers are loyal Cal alumni Rigger/Boatman: Mike Fennelly; [email protected] and friends who provide fi nancial sup- port to Cal Athletics with their donations. Every student-athlete benefits from ATHLETIC MEDIA RELATIONS their contributions, which underwrites Men’s Crew Contact: Assistant Director Dean Caparaz the scholarships, programmatic needs, Direct Line: (510) 642-5048 and academic tutoring programs. Bear E-mail Address: [email protected] Backers also build our athletic facilities, General Offi ce Phone: (510) 642-5363 including the Haas Pavilion. Joining Fax: (510) 643-7778 Bear Backers is the best way to support Mailing Address: 349 Haas Pavilion, Berkeley, CA 94720 the Cal team you care about. Call (510) Athletics Web Site: www.CalBears.com 642-2427 for more information. 2009 CALIFORNIA GOLDEN BEARS Men's Crew Media Guide 1 CALIFORNIA Golden Bears CAL CREW COACHING STAFF Mike Teti coached the U.S. team for the last time at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, China. At the Olympics in Athens 2004, he directed the men’s eight to a world record in its heat and an eventual gold medal, marking the fi rst time the United States captured the men’s eight since 1964. U.S. national team crews produced 27 total medals un- MIKE TETI der Teti’s guidance. Director of Cal Crew Teti was named the U.S. head men’s sweep coach Mike Teti, formerly the head coach of the after the 1996 Olympics and 2008 U.S. men’s Olympic rowing team, be- head men’s coach following came the head coach of men’s crew at the the 2000 Games. At the 2000 University of California in July 2008. Olympics in Sydney, all of his Teti fulfi lled his obligations with the Olym- sweep boats qualifi ed for the fi nals, with the Teti is the coach of the only men’s eight in pic team through the Beijing Games and men’s pair capturing the silver medal. U.S. history to win three consecutive world officially started at Cal on Sept. 1, championship titles (1997-99), a feat that 2008. He replaced Steve Gladstone, earned him three consecutive USRowing after coaching the U.S. men’s eight to National Coach of the Year honors. He was a bronze medal in China. also selected the Developmental Coach of In December of 2008, Teti received the Year title in 1996. the USRowing Medal, the highest At the 2003 World Championships, Teti honor that the rowing governing body coached the men’s eight to a silver medal can bestow. and the men’s four with coxswain to a gold. A longtime fi xture on the national The men’s eight also won a bronze medal at level, Teti served on the U.S. coaching the 2002 World Championships. In addition, staff at the World Championships and he led the U.S. men to four gold medals at Olympic Games regularly since 1996. the 1999 Worlds and to three medals at the He coached the U.S. men’s eight to 1998 Worlds. nine world championship medals dur- Teti started his coaching career in 1982 at ing that time period including four gold Temple University, leading his crews to six medals in 1997, 1998, 1999 and 2005. titles in seven years at the Dad Vail Regatta in Philadelphia. In 1989, he began a stint as freshman coach at Princeton, where his freshman eights won IRA titles fi ve times. As a rower, Teti was a 12-time national team member and three-time Olympian. From 1977-93, he won 24 national titles, a silver medal at the 1979 Pan American Games in the four, and a bronze and a gold in the eight at the World Championships (1985 and ‘87). He was also a bronze medal-winner in the eight at the 1988 Olympics. In 1987, Teti was named USRowing’s Male Athlete of the Year after rowing bow on the world champion U.S. eight. Born in Upper Darby, Pa., Teti rowed at St. Joseph’s University, where he earned his bachelor’s degree in 1978. He is a member of the St. Joseph’s and USRowing Halls of Fame. Teti is married to Kay Worthington, an outstanding rower in her own right who won gold medals in the women’s four and eight for Canada at the 1992 Olympics in Head coach Mike Teti with his crew at the 2008 Head of the Charles competition. Barcelona. 2 2009 CALIFORNIA GOLDEN BEARS Men's Crew Media Guide CALIFORNIA Golden Bears SUPPORT STAFF Agnini coached at St. Joseph’s Prep in Philadelphia in 2004 and 2005. A product of Marietta College in Marietta, Ohio, Agnini graduated in 2002 with degrees in psychology and history. He competed in the IRA Regatta while rowing at Marietta. GEOFF BOND MIKE VALLARELLI Assistant Coach/Novice Coach Assistant Freshman Coach/ Director of Recruiting Geoff Bond is a 1988 graduate of Brown University, at which he earned a B.A. in Clas- The Boston product, who competed at sical Greek and Roman History. Bond rowed Cal from 1999 to 2002, rejoined the Cal in Steve Gladstone’s powerhouse Brown coaching staff in the summer of 2008. He program, competing in the freshman, junior had been working as a fi xed-income trader varsity, and varsity eights between 1984 and at JP Morgan Securities since graduating MIKE FENNELLY Rigger/Boatman 1988. During that period Brown won two titles from Cal in 2003. at the Eastern Sprints Championships and In 2001, Vallarelli coxed the undefeated In his 28th year as Cal’s rigger, Mike Fen- two IRA varsity national championships. Pac-10 and IRA national champion Cal var- nelly is regarded as one of collegiate rowing’s After graduating from Brown, Bond and his sity eight. He also coxed Cal’s varsity eight to fi nest boatmen. He not only maintains all of wife, Hilary, spent two years teaching and IRA and Pac-10 national titles in 2002. the program’s boats and prepares them for coaching at the Salisbury School in Salis- As a member of the national team, Vallarel- racing, but also keeps the entire boathouse bury, Conn. They then traveled to Japan, li coxed the U.S. four to a sixth-place fi nish at in ship shape. where they taught English for two years. the 1997 Junior World Championships. Fennelly has a strong rowing background. Bond headed the Berkeley High School He rowed in high school at St. Joseph’s Boys Crew Program in 1993-94 and 1995- in Alameda, Calif., and continued at Long 96. When Gladstone returned to Cal in the Beach State before transferring to Cal and fall of 1996, he asked Bond to join him as rowing one year in the lightweight varsity his varsity assistant. During Bond’s three eight. In 1979, Fennelly became lightweight years of apprenticeship under Gladstone, he head coach while serving as rigger appren- helped develop the less experienced athletes tice under the legendary Matt Franich. In and ultimately coached the varsity 4+ at the 1981, he became Cal’s full-time rigger. IRA Regatta each year. In 1999 he led the Fennelly and his wife, Kathleen, live in Bears’ Henley Campaign, which ended in a Alameda with their two sons, Brian and second-place fi nish in the Ladies’ Plate at Patrick. the Henley Royal Regatta. Bond is currently in his ninth year at the helm of the California freshman crew. In addition to fi ve consecutive Pac-10 wins in 2003-07, his crews have collected medals LUKE AGNINI at the IRA national championships in six Assistant Varsity Coach of the last eight years.