MIKE ALTMAN

Hometown: Marin County, Calif.

Current Residence: Princeton, N.J.

Club Affiliation: USRowing Training Center

Began Rowing: Redwood High School, 1991

Date of Birth: 8/21/75

Height: 6’0”

Weight: 155

High School: Redwood High School

Undergraduate Education: Georgetown University, 1997

Graduate Education: University of California at Los Angeles, 2007

Current Coach: John Parker

International Results: Finished 10th in the lightweight double sculls at the 2005 FISA World Championships...Served as an alternate at the 2004 Olympic Games...Finished eighth in the lightweight pair at the 2004 FISA World Championships...Finished second in the lightweight pair at the 2004 FISA World Cup stop in Lucerne...Finished eighth in the lightweight four at the 2004 FISA World Cup stop in Munich...Won bronze in the lightweight pair at the 2003 FISA World Championships...Finished fifth in the lightweight pair at the 2002 FISA World Championships...Served as an alternate at the 1999 FISA World Championships...Won silver in the lightweight eight at the 1998 FISA World Championships...Finished fifth in the lightweight four at the 1997 Nation’s Cup (Under 23) Regatta...Reached the quarterfinals in the Ladies’ Plate Challenge Cup at the 1996 Henley Royal Regatta.

National Results: Won the lightweight double sculls at the 2005 National Selection Regatta #2...Finished second in the lightweight single sculls at the 2005 National Selection Regatta #1...Won the lightweight eight at the 2002 USRowing National Championships...Won the lightweight four with coxswain at the 1998 USRowing National Championships...Finished sixth in the varsity eight at the 1996 Intercollegiate Rowing Association (IRA) Championships.

Personal: Mike is a seven-time senior national team member and first-time Olympian...Besides rowing, Mike enjoys skiing, spreadsheets and roughhousing with his dogs...After graduating, Mike started work as an investment banker...He worked as an assistant coach for the junior men at Marin Rowing Association in 2001-2002...His crews finished second and third at the USRowing Youth Invitational...He also coached novice women in 2003 at the Mercer Junior Rowing Club...Mike lists his most memorable sporting achievement as rowing in the first U.S. lightweight men’s pair to medal at the world championships in 2003...He earned his bachelor’s degree from Georgetown’s School of Foreign Service and his master’s degree in business administration from UCLA.

(updated 6/27/2008)