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 letter winner 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.