Davies, number 10 in the rowing ranks

Davies, already an Olympic medallist

She may be 6 foot 4 but United States women’s national team coach Tom Terhaar says her greatest strength in rowing isn’t her height – it’s her technical ability. Caryn Davies comes in at number 10 on the list of top 10 female rowers for 2005 and at 23 years old she still has a lot of rowing in front of her.

?I think her ‘head’ makes her a top rower: a great competitor when it counts,? says Terhaar. ?She always wants to win.?

Caryn began rowing when she lived for a short time in Tasmania. She continued the sport after moving back to the United States. Still in high school Caryn made the United States team as a junior two years running. In her second year she competed in two events winning gold in the women’s four.

She then moved to the senior ranks and won World Championship gold as a 20 year old in the women’s eight. Attending Harvard University as a psychology student, Caryn also helped her college crew to the top of the collegiate rowing table.

Caryn then set her sights on the Athens Olympics and was selected for the women’s eight. The eight went on to make history by setting a world best time in the heats and finishing with Olympic silver.

Caryn continued on the national team competing again for the US in 2005, this time in the women’s quad. Currently Caryn is shaking up the rowing community in the Netherlands by racing for the student club in Amsterdam.

Links:
Top 10 for 2005
Caryn Davies biography

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