Harriet Morris "Holly" Metcalf (born March 25, 1958) is a six-time USA national/ Olympic team member in women's rowing, who won a gold medal in rowing at the 1984 Summer Olympics for the women's eight.

Medal record
Women's rowing
Representing the  United States
Olympic Games
Gold medal – first place 1984 Los Angeles Eight
World Championships
Silver medal – second place 1987 Copenhagen Eight

Background

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Metcalf received her B.A. in Music and English from Mount Holyoke College in 1981[1] and a masters in risk and prevention and a certificate of advanced study in human development and psychology from Harvard University.[2]

Career

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Between 1981 and 1987, she won three silver and one bronze World Championship medals. She won an Olympic gold medal in the U.S. women's eight in 1984.[1] She is currently the founder and executive director of the Row As One Institute,[3] the original purpose of which was to serve masters women rowers. As director of Row As One, she founded G-ROW Boston, a rowing program for girls in the Boston public schools.[4] G-ROW, which also incorporates academics and relationship-building, is now a program of Community Rowing, Inc. She also founded WeCanRow (Women Enduring Cancer Row), a program for women breast cancer survivors. Founded in Boston in 2002, WeCanRow now has chapters around the U.S.[5] In 2007, Metcalf was hired as head coach for the MIT women's openweight crew.[2]

She was a panelist at the 2003 National Gay and Lesbian Athletics Conference in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on a panel of LGBT Olympians that also included swimmer Mark Tewksbury and high jumper Brian Marshall.[6]

Private life

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Metcalf is openly lesbian.[7] Holly now works as a coach for MIT rowing.[3]

References

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  1. ^ a b "Harriet "Holly" Metcalf '81 – Rowing". Mount Holyoke. Retrieved April 5, 2024.
  2. ^ a b "Harriet Morris Metcalf". olympics.com. Retrieved February 19, 2023.
  3. ^ a b "Holly Metcalf - Head Coach - Staff Directory". Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Retrieved April 5, 2024.
  4. ^ "Harriet "Holly" Metcalf – Rhode Island Heritage Hall of Fame". Retrieved April 5, 2024.
  5. ^ "WE CAN ROW – Boston – A wellness and recovery program for women who have been treated for breast cancer". Retrieved April 5, 2024.
  6. ^ "GLAF convention brings gay athletes to Boston" Archived November 5, 2018, at the Wayback Machine. Bay Windows, March 27, 2003.
  7. ^ "Heroes Among Us: Holly Metcalf and Mark Tewksbury". WGBH-TV Lectures. April 30, 2003. Archived from the original on January 4, 2008. Retrieved May 23, 2007.
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