SAM MAGEE

Women’s Eight

Hometown: Simsbury, Conn.

Current Residence: Princeton, N.J.

Club Affiliation: Princeton Training Center

Began Rowing: St. Paul’s School, 1998

Date of Birth: 7/10/83 

Height: 6’0” 

Weight: 180

High School: St. Paul’s School

Undergraduate Education: Stanford University

Current Coach: Tom Terhaar

International Results: Won gold in the eight at the 2007 FISA World Championships...Finished fourth in the eight at the 2005 FISA World Championships...Won a bronze medal in the eight at the 2005 BearingPoint World Cup stop in Munich...Won a silver medal in the eight at the 2004 Olympic Games...Set a world record in the eight during the heats of the 2004 Olympic Games...Won a gold medal in the eight at the 2004 BearingPoint World Cup stop in Lucerne...Won a gold medal in the eight at the 2004 BearingPoint World Cup stop in Munich...Finished fifth in the eight at the 2003 FISA World Championships...Won a silver medal in the four and finished fifth in the eight at the 2001 FISA Junior World Championships...Won the scholastic eight at the 2001 Women’s Henley...Finished second in the junior women’s category at the 2001 C.R.A.S.H.-B. World Indoor Rowing Championships...Finished eighth in the pair at the 2000 FISA Junior World Championships...Won the junior eight at the 1999 Canadian Henley.

National Results: Won gold in the eight and silver in the four at the 2007 USRowing National Championships...Finished 11th in the varsity eight at the 2005 NCAA Championships...Finished second in the varsity eight at the 2005 Pacific-10 Conference Championships...Finished third in the varsity eight at the 2003 NCAA Championships...Won the varsity eight at the 2003 Pacific-10 Conference Championships...Finished sixth in the varsity eight at the 2002 NCAA Championships...Finished second in the eight at the 2000 USRowing Youth Invitational.

Personal: Sam is a three-time senior national team member...She was part of the Olympic women’s eight that set a world record in the heat and won a silver medal in the final in Athens, Greece...In addition to rowing, Sam played basketball and soccer in high school...She started rowing because of her brother Andrew...During the summer of 2006, she worked as a capabilities intern at NASA in Mountain View, Calif., working on ways to reduce energy and water use within the space program...Sam would like to be an environmental consultant when she gets finished rowing...She enjoys reading environmental Web sites and Sierra Club magazine...She enjoys hiking, reading, and Harry Potter...Her favorite television shows are Friends and Grey’s Anatomy...Her favorite animal is the Polar Bear, which was recently added to the endangered species list because of global warming.

(updated 11/6/2007)