JEN GOLDSACK

Hometown: Banstead, United Kingdom

Current Residence: Trenton, N.J.

Club Affiliation: USRowing Training Center

Began Rowing: Somerville College-Oxford

Date of Birth: 7/12/82 

Height: 5’8” 

Weight: 125

High School: Nonsuch High School

Undergraduate Education: University of Oxford, 2004

Graduate Education: University of Oxford, 2005

Current Coach: Cameron Kiosoglous

International Results: Finished second in the lightweight double sculls at the 2008 Final Olympic Qualification Regatta...Finished eighth in the double sculls at the 2008 FISA World Cup stop in Lucerne...Finished second in the lightweight single sculls at the 2007 FISA World Championships...Won the lightweight single sculls at the 2007 Women’s Henley Regatta...Finished second in the single sculls at the 2007 Henley Royal Regatta...Finished ninth in the lightweight double sculls at the 2006 FISA World Cup stop in Poznan...Finished eighth in the lightweight double sculls at the 2005 FISA World Championships...Finished 13th in the lightweight double sculls at the 2005 FISA World Cup stop in Lucerne...Finished fourth in the lightweight single sculls at the 2005 FISA World Cup stop in Munich...Finished 12th in the lightweight single sculls at the 2005 FISA World Cup stop in Eton.

National Results: Won the lightweight double sculls at the 2008 U.S. Olympic Team Trials... Finished fifth in the double sculls at the second 2008 National Selection Regatta...Won the lightweight single sculls at the 2007 U.S. National Team Trials...Won the lightweight eight at the 2003 Oxford-Cambridge Boat Race.

Personal: Jen is a two-time U.S. National Team member and first-time Olympian...She competed in rugby at Oxford before concentrating on rowing...Jen lists her best friend, Rebecca Romero, as the most influential person in her sporting career and life...Jen raced for the British National Team in 2005 and 2006...She is engaged and getting married on January 17, 2009.

(updated 6/19/2008)