Harriet Metcalf
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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.
Background
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
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
Metcalf is openly lesbian.[7] Holly now works as a coach for MIT rowing.[3]
References
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External links
- MIT Biography Template:Webarchive
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- Row As One Institute Biography
- MHC Crew Celebrates Twenty-Five Years on the River
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- 1958 births
- Living people
- American female rowers
- Harvard University alumni
- American lesbian sportswomen
- Mount Holyoke College alumni
- Rowers at the 1984 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the 1984 Summer Olympics
- Olympic gold medalists for the United States in rowing
- World Rowing Championships medalists for the United States
- Lincoln School (Providence, Rhode Island) alumni
- LGBTQ rowers
- 20th-century American sportswomen
- 20th-century American LGBTQ people