A passion for rowing.

I joined the rowing team as a freshman at the University of Buffalo and quickly fell in love with the sport. I was particularly drawn to the physical and mental challenge of it. I rowed competitively throughout college and continued rowing for the next 20 years. I also coached rowers of all ages for the last 15 years.

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Troubled water 

While training for the 2017 Head of the Charles, a competitive race that takes place in Boston, MA, something felt different. My rowing technique, which I spent years perfecting, felt wrong. I also felt unusually tired and weak, but shrugged it off as getting old or overtraining. Unfortunately, the fatigue got worse and the following spring I developed a tremor in my left hand, and my left arm no longer swung when I walked. After several months of tests, I was diagnosed with Young Onset Parkinson’s Disease just before my 44th birthday. I didn’t know what to think about the diagnosis or how it would impact me. I definitely thought my days as a competitive rower were over, but were they?  


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Competitive rowing with Parkinson’s Disease?

I thought about how I could continue to row competitively and wondered if I could be designated as an adaptive athlete. I reached out to USRowing, the governing body of the sport, to understand the possibilities. This led to a Paralympic training camp invitation and representing the USA at the 2019 World Rowing Championships in Linz, Austria.

 

Racing Results to Date

  • 7th place in the PR3 Mixed Gender Double Sculls (PR3 Mix 2x) event at the 2024 Paralympics in Paris, France

  • 4th place in the PR3 Mixed Gender Double Sculls (PR3 Mix 2x) event at the 2024 World Rowing Cup 3 in Poznan, Poland

  • 2nd Place in the PR3 Mixed Gender Double Sculls (PR3 Mix 2x) event at the 2023 World Rowing Championships in Belgrade, Serbia

  • 5th place in the PR3 Mixed Double Sculls (PR3 Mix 2x) event at the 2022 World Rowing Championships in Racice, Czech Republic

  • 1st place in PR3 Mix 2x event at the 2022 USRowing Summer National Championships in Princeton, New Jersey

  • 1st place in the PR3 Mixed 4+ event a the 2021 Head of the Charles Regatta in Boston Massachusetts

  • 1st place PR3 Mixes 2x - at the 2021 USRowing Summer National Championships in Cherry Hill, New Jersey

  • 6th place PR3 Men’s 2 - at the 2019 World Rowing Championships 

  • 1st place PR3 Mixed 4+ at the 2019 World Rowing Cup 2

  • 3rd place Men’s Club 4+ at the 2004 Head of the Charles

  • 2nd place Men’s Senior 4- at the 1999 USRowing Club National Championships

  • 2nd place Men’s Senior 4+ at the 1999 USRowing Club National Championships

  • 4th place Men’s 4- at the 1999 Royal Canadian Henley Regatta

  • 1st place Men’s 4+ at the 1996 New York State Collegiate Rowing Championships

  • 4th place Men’s 4+ at the 1996 Dad Vail Regatta