Harriet Metcalf
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Los Angeles 1984 | Women's eights |
Harriet ("Holly") Morris Metcalf (born March 25, 1958) is a six-time USA national/ Olympic team member in women's rowing, who won a Gold medal in rowing at the 1984 Summer Olympics for the Women's Eight. She is openly lesbian.[1]
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Background
Metcalf received her B.A. in Music and English from Mount Holyoke College in 1981 and a masters in risk and prevention and a certificate of advanced study in human development and psychology from Harvard University.
Career
Between 1981-1987, she won three silver and one bronze World Championship medals. She won an Olympic gold medal in the U.S. women's eight in 1984. She is currently the founder and executive director of the Row As One Institute, the original purpose of which was to serve masters women rowers. As director of Row As One, she founded G-ROW Boston, a rowing program for girls in the Boston public schools. G-ROW, which also incorporates academics and relationship-building, is now a program of Community Rowing, Inc.She also founded WeCanRow (Women Enduring Cancer Row), a program for women breast cancer survivors. Founded in Boston in 2002, WeCanRow now has chapters around the U.S. In 2007, Metcalf was hired as head coach for the MIT women's openweight crew.
She was a panelist at the 2003 National Gay and Lesbian Athletics Conference in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on a panel of LGBT Olympians that also included swimmer Mark Tewksbury and high jumper Brian Marshall.[2]
References
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- ↑ "GLAF convention brings gay athletes to Boston". Bay Windows, March 27, 2003.
External links
- MIT Biography
- databaseolympics.com
- Row As One Institute Biography
- MHC Crew Celebrates Twenty-Five Years on the River
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- 1958 births
- Living people
- Female rowers
- Harvard University alumni
- Lesbian sportswomen
- LGBT sportspeople from the United States
- Mount Holyoke College alumni
- Olympic medalists in rowing
- Olympic rowers of the United States
- Rowers at the 1984 Summer Olympics
- American sportswomen
- American rowing Olympic medalist stubs