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Rudy Wieler Head Coach Fifth Season E-mail: rrwieler@buffalo.edu Phone: 716-645-7941 Office: 162 C Alumni

Rudy Wieler was named head coach of the University at Buffalo women’s rowing program in July of 2003, bringing with him an extensive amount of coaching knowledge at levels of experience which range from scholastic, club, and intercollegiate rowing as well as rowing and coaching at the national, international and Olympic level during his coaching career.

The rowing program at UB has increased in size and competitiveness over the last four season under Wieler’s tutelage. In 2005, the varsity programs had consecutive wins at the Dad Vail Regatta and a first win at the ECAC Metro Cup Championships. Also in 2006, UB won the Harvey Cup against Mid-American Conference rival Eastern Michigan for the first time in the cup’s four-year existence. The fall season also provided a milestone result, when the squad was the top American finisher at the Head of the Genesee, ahead of nationally-recognized Yale, Syracuse, and Harvard Radcliffe boats. During the spring season in 2007, UB captured its second straight Harvey Cup and second straight second placed finish at the ECAC Metro Cup Championships.

A native of St. Catharines, Ontario, Wieler has world class coaching experience highlighted by guiding 14 crews to international competition finals in his career. He served as head coach of the Canadian National Women’s team from 1980 to 1984. Wieler’s Canadian women’s four squad captured a silver medal at the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles. Internationally, his rowers also won a gold and three bronze medals at the World Championships and a gold in the Commonwealth Games. He has also been a two-time coach of the Ontario squad at the Canada Games in 1997 and 2001. At the 2001 games, his 12 crews won seven gold and five silver medals. In 1979, Wieler was honored with the Air Canada Award as Canadian Coach of the Year among all sports.

Prior to coming to UB, Wieler also coached at several Canadian high schools for 31 years. Under his command, his teams medalled in each year of his tenure, and 15 of his squads captured the overall points championships. More than 60 of his high school rowers received athletic scholarships in the United States. Wieler also has collegiate coaching experience in the United States, serving as freshman coach at Pennsylvania from 1975 to 1976.

A 1967 graduate of Western Ontario and 1991 master’s degree recipient from Brock, Wieler is a fully-certified Level III coach in Canada. His coaching philosophy stresses the motto, “You can fly if you try.”

A WORD FROM HEAD COACH RUDY WIELER