RICH MONTGOMERY

Men’s Lightweight Double Sculls (Senior Team and Pan Am Team)

Hometown: Batavia, Ill.

Current Residence: Drexel Hill, Pa.

Club Affiliations: New York AC/Malta BC/Penn AC

Date of Birth: 9/15/77 

Height: 5’11” 

Weight: 160

High School: Batavia High School

Undergraduate Education: Cornell University

Graduate Education: Boston University School of Law

Occupation: Lawyer at Dechert LLP

Current Coaches: John Parker, John Riley, Mike Teti

International Results: Finished 19th in the lightweight double sculls at the 2007 FISA World Championships...Won silver in the lightweight double sculls at the 2007 Pan American Games...Finished 17th in the lightweight double sculls at the 2007 FISA World Cup stop in Amsterdam...Finished 11th in the lightweight pair at the 2006 FISA World Championships...Finished ninth in the lightweight four at the 2005 FISA World Championships...Finished 10th in the lightweight single sculls at the 2004 FISA World Championships.

National Results: Won the lightweight double sculls at the 2007 National Selection Regatta #3...Won the lightweight double sculls at the 2007 Pan American Games Trials...Won the lightweight single sculls at the 2005 National Selection Regatta...Won the lightweight single sculls at the 2003 Head of the Charles.

Personal: Rich is a four-time national team member...Rich says he is one of the luckier athletes as he is supported by his loving wife, Abbe.

(updated 11/6/2007)