Andrew Carter Position: Varsity Assistant Coach

Andrew Carter is in his first season as an assistant coach at Clemson. Carter works with the varsity rowers, specializing in small boat training, biomechanical analysis, rigging, and technique screening.

Coach Carter spent the past seven years as the head rowing coach at Bates College in Lewiston, ME. In 2008, Carter led the Bates women's team to its second consecutive appearance at the NCAA Division III Women's Rowing Championships. Under Carter's guidance, the Bates men's team became one of the top programs of any NCAA division. Among the student-athletes Carter coached at Bates was 2005 graduate Andrew Byrnes, gold medalist at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing with the Canadian men's eight. During 2006-2007, Carter spent a sabbatical year serving as the Director of Coach Development for Otago Rowing Association in New Zealand, where he also headed the regional high performance ID and development program. Before his time at Bates, Carter served as an assistant coach at the University of Southern California from 1999-2000. From 1996 to 1999, he served as head coach at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, N.Y. In addition, Carter has coached various successful collegiate, club and provincial programs throughout his native Canada. He spent two years working at Canada's National Rowing Center in London, Ontario prior to coming the United States. His achievements as a rower and as a coach include medals in many of North America's major rowing competitions, such as the National Invitational Championship, Dad Vail, Canadian Championship, Royal Canadian Henley and the Head of the Charles.

In addition to being a USRowing Level III and Rowing Canada Aviron Level IV certified coach, Carter received a B.Sc. (Kinesiology) in applied sports science from Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and a M.Sc. (Kinesiology) in Biomechanics from the University of Western Ontario in London, Ontario. Regarded in both the academic and coaching fields, Carter is a regular speaker at national and international coaching conferences on topics in biomechanics, technique, equipment, and training.