Caryn Davies won gold medals as the stroke seat in women's eight at the 2012 Summer Olympics and the 2008 Summer Olympics.
20 Facts About Caryn Davies
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Caryn Davies was the most highly decorated Olympian to take part in either [men's or women's] race.
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In 2012 Caryn Davies was ranked number 4 in the world by the International Rowing Federation.
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Caryn Davies has won more Olympic medals than any other US oarswoman.
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Caryn Davies is from Ithaca, New York, where she graduated from Ithaca High School, and rowed with the Cascadilla Boat Club.
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Caryn Davies was on the Radcliffe College Crew Team and was a member on Radcliffe's 2003 NCAA champion Varsity 8, and overall team champion.
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Caryn Davies has served as a Vice President of the US Olympians Association and as athletes' representative to the Board of USRowing.
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Caryn Davies is the most decorated Harvard Olympian in any sport.
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Caryn Davies is currently an attorney with Goodwin Procter in Boston, Massachusetts.
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Caryn Davies was recruited into rowing at 12 years of age.
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Caryn Davies started rowing competitively a year later in Australia in 1996, at the Friends' School in Hobart.
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Caryn Davies won the prestigious Stotesbury cup regatta and the Scholastic Rowing Association single sculls in both 1999 and 2000, and the USRowing Youth invitational in 2000, placing her as the top US junior female rower at the time she left high school.
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Caryn Davies rowed for Harvard from 2001 to 2003, leading the team to an NCAA championship in 2003, and again in 2005, after taking a year off for the Olympics.
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Caryn Davies has again taken a year off from Columbia Law School to compete in 2012.
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Caryn Davies has the ability to row starboard, port, or scull at an international level.
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Caryn Davies was part of the US Olympic women's eight that set a world record in the heat prior to a silver medal in the final in Athens, Greece.
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Caryn Davies was stroking the eight that repeated the feat in the World Cup in Lucerne in May 2012.
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Caryn Davies serves as the athlete demonstrating rowing technique in video for the Concept II rowing-machine.
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Caryn Davies promotes youth fitness through World Fit and gives inspirational talks to youth groups.
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Caryn Davies' hobbies include travel, sailing, downhill skiing, horseback riding, yoga, and ballroom dancing.