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Women's rowing | ||
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Olympic Games | ||
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1984 Los Angeles | Eight |
World Championships | ||
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1987 Copenhagen | Eight |
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.
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]
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]
Metcalf is openly lesbian. [7] Holly now works as a coach for MIT rowing. [3]