University of Pennsylvania Athletics

Tyler Nase has been the John R. Rockwell Assistant Coach for the University of Pennsylvania men’s lightweight rowing program since August 2017.

In his first year with the program, the Quakers took third at the EARC Sprints and fourth at the IRA National Championship regatta, while in 2019 the Varsity Eight won the program's first Sprints title since 1976 while the Second Varsity Eight medaled with a third-place finish and the Third Varsity Eight beat its seed with a Grand Final appearance. In 2021, Penn's Varsity Eight took second at IRAs while the Second Varsity Eight was third.

In Cup races during Nase's tenure, Penn won the Callow Cup over Navy in 2019, while in 2022 the Quakers wrested the Wood-Hammond Cup from Princeton for the first time since 2005, beating Tigers on their Lake Carnegie home course for the first time since 1978. 

A 2016 Olympian, Nase is no stranger to the Schuylkill, growing up in the Philadelphia area and rowing there while attending LaSalle College High School. He also is no stranger to Penn head coach Colin Farrell, who coached Nase at the 2011 and 2012 Under-23 World Rowing Championships. Nase returned to Boathouse Row following last summer’s Olympic Games, coaching at Vesper Boat Club as part of that program’s High Performance Group.

Nase was a member of the United States Lightweight Four at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio, and has also competed in seven World Championships and two World Cup regattas as a member of the U.S. National Team. He won a bronze medal at the 2016 World Cup, silver at the 2013 World Cup, and bronze at the 2008 Junior World Championships.

Nase was a four-year letter winner in lightweight rowing at Princeton, and earned the program’s Gordon Sikes Medal as a senior captain. A three-time member of the Tigers’ Varsity 8 boat, he helped lead Princeton to an IRA National title in 2010. Nase graduated from Princeton in 2013 with a degree in sociology.