Ted Benford
	Experience: Six years Head Coach tbenford@mit.edu 617-253-9676

Ted Benford returns to MIT for his sixth year guiding the lighweight Engineers. His crews have seen continuous improvement including the closest racing the program has experienced in years and top-10 national seeding in 2008 and 2009.

Benford brings over 20 years of coaching experience to Cambridge. Before arriving at the Institute, He was the men’s head coach at Boston College and Tufts University and an assistant coach at Northeastern University. Benford has coached at numerous rowing centers in the east and has served as a guest coach at several of the nation’s top club and camp programs.

During the summers, Benford is a coach with the Riverside Boat Club High Performance Group. For the past two years, his athletes have won Gold medals at the Canadian Henley Regatta and finished in the semifinals at the Royal Henley Regatta (Prince of Wales Cup). In 2008 and 2009, he coached the men’s lightweight pair for the U.S. National Team from Riverside Boat Club and Pierce Boathouse. 

Andy Hilton
	Experience: Four years Freshman Coach ahilton@mit.edu 617-253-6246 Alma Mater: Dartmouth College '99

Andy Hilton joined the MIT staff as the freshman lightweight coach in August, 2007. In his first campaign, the freshman lights finished 10th at the 2008 EARC Sprints Championship.

Prior to MIT, Hilton served as the varsity assistant coach at the University of California Berkeley from 2006-07. He coached the varsity four to gold at the Pac-10 and IRA Championships. Hilton also served as a volunteer coach in 2006 as Cal captured the IRA National Championship in the varsity eight.

Hilton attended Dartmouth College, earning his B.A. in Economics in 1999. He rowed for the Dartmouth lightweights and co-captained the 1998-99 squad that won a Bronze medal at the IRA National Championship. After college, Hilton served as the lightweight intern at Harvard University from 1999-01 before returning to full time training at the U.S. Rowing Training Center in Princeton, N.J.

After hanging up his oar in 2002, Hilton returned to coaching part-time at Deerfield Academy, where he also worked in the alumni office from 2002-05. He has also spent summers coaching at Craftsbury Sculling Center in Vermont.