Princeton 2nd Varsity Heavyweight Crew vs. Rutgers - April 2002 (more photos..)
In 1998 Jordan led Princeton to its forth straight points trophy at the EARCs and a National Championship at the IRA regatta.
Prior to taking over the heavyweights, Jordan was head coach of women's crew for seven years, during which time he compiled a 58-15 record and claimed the national championship in 1990. He twice won the Eastern Sprints and was named EAWRC Coach of the Year in 1985 and 1990. His women's teams twice won Eastern Sprints and he was named EAWRC Coach of the Year in 1985 and 1990.
Jordan has been a U.S. national team coach for the last three Olympics. He was co-coach of the bronze medal-winning lightweight fours at the 1996 Atlanta Games and also coached the men's four with cox in Seoul (1988) and Barcelona (1992), where he led the U.S. to a fourth-place finish.
Jordan will share coaching duties this season with New Zealand native Chris Nilsson. He is serving as the head coach of the U.S. National team and will be devoting the majority of his time to preparing the crew for the 2000 Olympics in Sydney.
Chris Nilsson joins the Princeton boathouse as a coach for the men's heavyweight crew. Nilsson will assist Curtis Jordan with coaching duties at Princeton.
Nilsson comes to Old Nassau from Oxford University, where he served as an assistant coach for the boat club for the past two years. He has been involved in coaching since 1981. Nilsson's rowing experience includes competing in three New Zealand championships (1967, 1968, 1972) and the 1972 Olympics in Munich. (more..)
Greg Hughes, who helped the Tiger lightweight crew row to two national titles as an undergraduate, is in his third year as an assistant coach with the Princeton rowing program.
Last year, as the Freshman Heavyweight Coach, Hughes led his team to a EARC Sprints title, suffering only one regular season defeat. Hughes spent his first year as an intern with the Tiger heavyweight and lightweight men's crews.
Hughes is a 1996 Princeton graduate who was an All-Ivy League rower on the 1994 and 1996 national championship lightweight crews. He served as team captain in 1995-96 and won the Gordon G. Sikes Award for the largest contribution to Princeton lightweight crew.
He was also an alternate on the 1997 and 1998 lightweight sweep teams at the
World Championships and was a coach in 1999.
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