DAN BEERY
Men’s Four with Coxswain
(Senior Team)
Men's Pair and Men’s Eight (Pan Am Team)
Hometown: Oaktown, Ind.
Current Residence: Philadelphia, Pa.
Club Affiliation: Penn Athletic Club
Began Rowing: University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, 1997
Date of Birth: 1/4/75
Height: 6’7”
Weight: 215
High School: North Knox High School
Undergraduate Education: Univ. of Tennessee at Chattanooga, 2000
Current Coaches: Mike Teti, Ted Nash
International Results: Won gold in the four with coxswain at the 2007 FISA World Championships...Won gold in the eight and silver in the pair at the 2007 Pan American Games...Finished 12th in the pair at the 2006 FISA World Championships...Won gold in the eight and finished fifth in the four at the 2005 FISA World Championships...Won gold in the eight at the 2004 Olympic Games...Set a world record in the eight during the heats at the 2004 Olympic Games...Won gold in the four at the 2004 FISA World Cup stop in Lucerne...Won gold in the pair with coxswain at the 2003 FISA World Championships...Won silver in the pair with coxswain at the 2002 FISA World Championships.
National Results: Finished second in the eight at the 2007 USRowing National Championships...Won the pair at the 2007 Pan American Games Trials...Won the pair at the 2007 National Selection Regatta #2...Finished third in the pair at the second 2005 USRowing National Selection Regatta...Won gold in the double sculls at the 2002 USRowing National Championships...Won gold in the double sculls at the 2001 USRowing National Championships...Won gold in the pair at the 2000 USRowing National Championships...Won the four and the four with coxswain at the 1999 USRowing National Championships...Finished second in the pair at the 1998 USRowing National Championships.
Personal: Dan is a six-time national team member...He enjoys mountain biking, trail running, horseback riding, historical fiction, reading The Economist, and pick-up basketball...Dan competed in the AAU National Championships in basketball at the age of 17...He earned the team’s Most Improved Athlete award while playing college basketball at Bryon College before transferring to UTC...Dan began rowing after UTC’s rowing coach recruited him while he was playing pick-up basketball.
(updated 11/6/2007)