- Jason Read
Jason Read (born
December 24 ,1977 ) is a rower who sat in the bow seat in the2004 Summer Olympics Gold medal -winning U.S. Men's Rowing Team.Read was born and raised in
Ringoes, New Jersey ."Area pair are rowing alternates",The Times (of Trenton) ,June 28 ,2008 .] He attended theHun School of Princeton , where he took up rowing, continuing the sport atTemple University . As volunteer chief of the Amwell Valley Rescue Squad in Ringoes, he was among those who responded after theSeptember 11, 2001 terrorist attacks . [Lieber, Jill. [http://www.usatoday.com/sports/olympics/athens/boat/2004-07-21-rowing-read_x.htm "Read emerges from nightmare with stronger faith, will"] , "USA Today ",July 21 ,2004 . AccessedJune 12 ,2007 . "He became passionate about rowing when he was just a scrawny, metal-mouthed eighth-grader at The Hun School in Princeton, N.J., battling his way to the 2004 Olympic eight despite always being seen as too small in such a powerful sport."]Read failed to make the U.S. rowing team for the
2008 Summer Olympics qualifying only as an alternate.References
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