PORTIA J. McGEE

Hometown: Seattle, Wash.

Current Residence: Princeton, N.J.

Club Affiliation: USRowing Training Center

Began Rowing: Mt. Baker Rowing Club, 1992

Date of Birth: 3/9/79 

Height: 5’9” 

Weight: 155

High School: The Bush School

Undergraduate Education: Brown University, 2001

Current Coach: Tom Terhaar

International Results: Won bronze in the pair at the 2008 FISA World Cup stop in Lucerne...Won gold in the four and finished seventh in the pair at the 2007 FISA World Championships...Won gold in the eight at the 2007 FISA World Cup stop in Lucerne...Won bronze in the four at the 2006 FISA World Championships...Won silver in the eight at the 2006 FISA World Cup stop in Lucerne...Finished 12th in the pair at the 2002 FISA World Championships...Finished fifth in the pair at the 2002 FISA World Cup stop in Lucerne...Won silver in the four at the 2001 Nation’s Cup...Won bronze in the four at the 1999 Nation’s Cup...Won bronze in the eight at the 1997 FISA World Junior Championships...Finished seventh in the four at the 1996 FISA World Junior Championships.

National Results: Won the pair at the 2008 U.S. Olympic Trials - Rowing...Won gold in the eight and four at the 2007 USRowing National Championships...Finished second in the varsity eight at the 2001 NCAA Championships...Won the varsity eight at the 2000 NCAA Championships...Won the varsity eight at the 1999 NCAA Championships...Finished second in the four with coxswain at the 2000 NCAA Championships...Won the eight from 1995-1997 at the USRowing Youth Invitational.

Personal: Portia is a four-time senior national team member and first-time Olympian...Portia was named USRowing’s 2007 Female Athlete of the Year...After many years on the east coast, Portia looks forward to joining her husband, Luke McGee, in her hometown of Seattle, Wash., this fall where Luke coaches rowing at the University of Washington...Portia and Luke were married in the fall of 2006 after meeting on the 1997 U.S. Junior National Team, where they both rowed seven seat...Portia lists John and Phoebe Murphy, her coaches at Brown University, as her rowing mentors and her husband, mother and father as her biggest supporters and greatest rowing fans on earth...She was in Sports Illustrated’s Faces in the Crowd in September of 1997.

(updated 6/12/2008)