Stockton/Joe Haney
ATLANTIC CITY - A familiar face in the Atlantic County rowing scene was appointed assistant coach of Stockton University's Women's Rowing Team. Atlantic City native Joe Haney, a longtime associate and Atlantic City High School teammate of Stockton Head Coach John Bancheri, will have coaching, instructional and administrative duties in the areas of recruiting, coordination and regatta planning. He brings more than 30 years of coaching experience to Stockton.
"From rowing a pair at Head of the Schuylkill in 1977 to bringing Joe Haney on as an assistant coach and recruiting coordinator seems like such a natural progression in our professional coaching relationship," Bancheri said."No question we will complement each other's talent and push each other to improve. Along with the current staff plus Joe's enthusiasm and organizational skills, we move one step closer to our four-year dream, a national championship run by 2022.
Haney founded the Atlantic County Rowing Association in 1992 and remained its chief executive officer for nearly three decades. The organization helps train youth and adult rowers, and over the years it assisted with the startup and development of several local high school programs.
Haney most recently served as the director of rowing at The Stewards Foundation in Tampa, Florida, which uses rowing as a vehicle to teach teamwork and responsibility to young people. The foundation instructs rowers and also serves as a site for visiting teams from cold weather regions to train during the winter and early spring.
Haney also coached at Holy Spirit High School and St. Augustine Prep. He competed in track and field at Rowan University (formerly Glassboro State College) and was a member of the 1981 and 1982 NCAA championship teams that were later inducted into the Rowan University-Glassboro State College Athletic Hall of Fame.
A 1985 graduate of Glassboro State, Haney spent 26 years as a firefighter for the Atlantic City Fire Department, where he rose to the rank of battalion chief prior to his retirement in 2015.
