RACHEL JEFFERS

Hometown: Los Gatos, Calif.

Current Residence: Princeton, N.J.

Club Affiliation: USRowing Training Center

Began Rowing: Los Gatos Rowing Club, 2001

Date of Birth: 4/20/85 

Height: 6’0” 

Weight: 165

High School: Los Gatos High School

Undergraduate Education: Yale University

Current Coaches: Tom Terhaar, Will Porter

International Results: Served as an alternate on the 2008 Olympic Team...Won gold in the eight at the 2008 FISA World Cup stop in Lucerne...Won gold in the four 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...Won silver in the eight at the 2003 FISA Junior World Championships...Won bronze in the eight at the 2002 FISA Junior World Championships.

National Results: Won gold in the eight and silver in the four at the 2007 USRowing National Championships...Won the varsity eight at the 2007 NCAA Championships...Won the varsity eight at the 2007 Women’s Eastern Sprints...Finished 10th in the varsity eight at the 2006 NCAA Championships...Finished third in the varsity eight at the 2006 Women’s Eastern Sprints...Finished fifth in the varsity eight at the 2005 NCAA Championships...Won the varsity eight at the 2005 Women’s Eastern Sprints...Finished second in the varsity eight at the 2004 NCAA Championships...Finished second in the varsity four with coxswain at the 2002 USRowing Youth Invitational.

Personal: Rachel is a three-time senior national team member...Rachel enjoys long bike rides, swimming, playing Frisbee, napping, baking, reading and dogs...Her older sister, Emily, rowed for Yale Crew...She lists her favorite places to race as Lucerne, Switzerland, and Derby, Conn...Rachel said if she wasn’t rowing, she would probably be playing water polo but that she would also like to try pole vaulting...She lists her favorite movie as Zoolander, her favorite television shows as The Office and The Daily Show and her favorite books as Angle of Repose, Reading Lolita in Tehran, and The What of the What...Rachel lists the Olympic gold medal game in water polo (men or women) as the one sporting event she would like to have a ticket to because it would be super aggressive, fast paced and fun to watch.

(updated 6/27/2008)