ALEX HEARNE

Men’s Eight

Hometown: Princeton, N.J.

Current Residence: Princeton, N.J.

Club Affiliation: Caspersen Training Center

Began Rowing: St. Paul’s School, 1999

Date of Birth: 2/24/84 

Height: 6’4” 

Weight: 210

High School: St. Paul’s School

Undergraduate Education: Princeton University, 2006

Occupation: Analyst at Medarex

Current Coaches: Mike Teti

International Results: Finished fourth in the eight at the 2007 FISA World Championships...Finished fifth in the eight at the 2006 FISA World Under 23 Championships...Won the Ladies Plate Challenge Cup at the 2006 Henley Royal Regatta...Served as an alternate at the 2005 FISA World Championships...Placed fourth in the four at the 2005 FISA Under 23 World Championships...Won gold in the Temple Challenge Cup at the 2003 Henley Royal Regatta...Won bronze in the eight at the 2002 FISA Junior World Championships...Won silver in the pair with coxswain at the 2000 FISA Junior World Championships.

National Results: Finished second in the eight at the 2007 USRowing National Championships...Won gold in the varsity eight at the 2006 Eastern Men’s Sprints...Won the championship eight at the 2005 Head of the Charles...Won silver in the varsity eight at the 2005 Intercollegiate Rowing Association (IRA) National Championships... Won gold in the freshman eight at the 2003 IRA National Championships...Won gold in the junior eight at the 2001 USRowing National Championships.

Personal: Alex is a three-time national team member...Alex lists his hobbies as sleeping, jogging, procrastinating, and playing leisure sports...In high school, he was supposed to be on the lacrosse team but tried rowing due to pressure from upper classmen and an underlying interest to try something new...Alex studied history at Princeton, focusing primarily on the Vietnam War, but his interest in the subject started at a young age when he was a Civil War buff...At Princeton, he took a Civil War course from Pulitzer Prize winner James M. McPherson, author of Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era...Alex lists his favorite book as The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara, which is what hooked him on the Civil War...His favorite movie is Dumb and Dumber...Alex enjoys classic rock and lists Bruce Springsteen as his favorite singer...His brother, Chris, rowed on the 2004 Junior National Team...Alex credits his Saint Paul’s School freshman coach, Mike Hirschfeld, as being the most influential person in his sporting career.

(updated 11/6/2007)