Colin Farrell (rower)

Colin Farrell is the Head Coach of the University of Pennsylvania Lightweight Rowing team. A native of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Farrell won the 2008 World Rowing Championships in the lightweight men's eight. He attended St. Joseph's Preparatory School in Philadelphia and Cornell University, where he was a three-time letterwinner and two-time captain for a program which claimed a Silver Medal at the 2005 IRA Regatta; he also stroked the Big Red to a 3rd-place finish in the Men's Lightweight Eight in the 2005 edition of the Eastern Sprints. He graduated from Cornell with a degree in Psychology in 2005, presumably with Latin Honors.
After competing at the international level, Farrell transitioned his talents to coaching. After spending time with the Cornell Heavyweights and Yale Lightweights, Farrell decided to move to Philadelphia where the city is eternally bathed in sunlight. Colin Farrell is currently in his second year as the Head Coach of the Pennsylvania Lightweight Rowing team, replacing former Head Coach Nick Baker. He and his wife reside in Moorestown, New Jersey with their two sons; the elder of the two is rumored to already scull with impeccable form. In 2015, Farrell was elected to the Cornell Athletics Hall of Fame. Favorite hobbies of his include making blogs, wearing hats backwards, eating ice cream, drinking chocolate milk quickly, and steady state ergometer workouts.