CARYN DAVIES
Hometown: Ithaca, N.Y.
Current Residence: Princeton, N.J.
Club Affiliation: USRowing Training Center
Began Rowing: The Friend’s School - Tasmania, Australia, 1996
Date of Birth: 4/14/82
Height: 6’4”
Weight: 178
High School: Ithaca High School
Undergraduate Education: Harvard University, 2005
Current Coach: Tom Terhaar
International Results: Won gold in the eight at the 2008 FISA World Cup stop in Lucerne...Won gold in the eight at the 2007 FISA World Championships...Won gold in the eight at the 2006 FISA World Championships...Finished second in the eight at the 2006 FISA World Cup stop in Lucerne...Won the Remenham Cup at the 2006 Henley Royal Regatta...Finished fifth in the quadruple sculls at the 2005 FISA World Championships...Won bronze in the quadruple sculls at the 2005 FISA World Cup stop in Munich...Won the women’s collegiate open division at the 2005 C.R.A.S.H.-B. World Indoor Rowing Championships...Won silver in the eight at the 2004 Olympic Games...Set a world record in the eight during the heats of the 2004 Olympic Games...Won gold in the eight at the 2004 FISA World Cup stop in Lucerne...Won gold in the eight and bronze in the pair at the 2004 FISA World Cup stop in Munich...Won gold in the four at the 2003 FISA World Championships...Won gold in the eight at the 2002 FISA World Championships...Won gold in the four and finished fourth in the eight at the 2000 FISA Junior World Championships...Won the junior category and set an American junior record on the ergometer at the 2000 C.R.A.S.H.-B. World Indoor Rowing Championships... Won silver in the eight and finished fourth in the four at the 1999 FISA Junior World Championships.
National Results: Finished second in the senior four and third in the senior quadruple sculls at the 2006 Australian National Championships...Won the double sculls at the 2005 Head of the Charles...Finished third in the varsity eight at the 2005 NCAA Championships...Won the varsity eight at the 2003 NCAA Championships...Won the varsity eight at the 2003 Eastern Women’s Sprints...Won the single sculls at the 2000 USRowing Youth Invitational...Finished fourth in the double sculls at the 1999 Head of the Charles...Finished second in the single sculls at both the 1998 and 1999 USRowing Youth Invitational.
Personal: Caryn is a seven-time senior national team member and two-time Olympian...She enjoys sailing, horseback riding, ballroom dancing and downhill skiing...As a senior at Harvard, she competed on the ballroom team...Caryn plans to attend graduate school in international relations at the University of Amsterdam next year and then go on to law school after her competitive career is over...She lists her most interesting job as her 2002 internship at an equine medical center in Ringoes, N.J...Caryn took up yoga as a freshman in college to help recover from a back injury...At first, she was more interested in the physical aspects of yoga, but she has gradually become more interested in the spiritual aspects the longer she has done it...She recently began teaching yoga classes to her teammates...Caryn lists her most memorable sporting achievement as beating all of the boys in her class to win the third-grade arm wrestling competition...She was part of the first-ever U.S. junior women’s crew to win a gold medal at the Junior World Championships in 2000...Caryn lists C.R.A.S.H.-B’s as her favorite place to compete, saying that it always terrified her but that she felt a strong sense of accomplishment and relief when it was over...She lists Whitney Post, her coach and training partner in high school, as the most influential person in her sporting career...Caryn said she learned most what she knows from Post, especially in the mental aspects of sports and life...Post now runs a sports psychology consulting company in Boston.
(updated 6/27/2008)