Erin Cafaro

Erin Cafaro
Cafaro in London, 2012
Personal information
Full name Erin Jane Cafaro[1]
Born (1983-06-09) June 9, 1983
Modesto, California, U.S.
Residence Princeton, San Diego, Berkeley
Height 175 cm (5 ft 9 in)
Sport
Country United States
Sport Rowing
Event(s) Women's Eight
Medal record
Women's rowing
Representing the  United States
Olympic Games
2008 Beijing Eight
2012 London Eight
World Rowing Championships
2007 Munich Coxless four
2009 Poznan Eight
2009 Poznan Pair
2006 Eton Coxless four
2010 Karapiro Pair

Erin Jane Cafaro (born June 9, 1983 in Modesto, California) is an American rower. She competed at the 2008 Summer Olympics, where she won a gold medal in women's eight.[1] At the 2012 London Olympics she won her second consecutive gold medal in Women's eight.[1]

Career

Cafaro began her rowing career as a novice at the University of California, Berkeley in 2001. She went on to make the varsity team in her freshman year, and to win the Women's NCAA Rowing Championships in both 2005 and 2006. In the summer of 2005 Cafaro also competed for US Rowing U23 Team in the Women's 4- at the Amsterdam, Netherlands FISA U23 World Championships, where the team won gold.[2]

Starting in the summer of 2006 Cafaro began training full-time with the US Rowing National Team. She won a bronze Medal at Eton, England in the FISA World Rowing Championships in 2006 and one gold Medal in Munich, Germany at the FISA World Rowing Championships in 2007, both in the Women's 4- event.[2]

Cafaro competed for the United States in the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, China, and 2012 Olympic Games in London, England where she and her teammates brought home the gold medals in the Women's 8+ event.[1] Beijing was the first time the United States Olympic Team has won the Gold in the Women's 8+ event in the full 2000m race.

In 2009 Cafaro won Gold Medals both in the Women's 2- and 8+ events at the 2009 World Rowing Championships in Poznan, Poland. This was the first time in US Rowing history that the W2- pair has won the Gold Medal in an international championship, much less two gold medals in two very challenging Olympic events in the same year at the same regatta. Cafaro and her pair partner, Susan Francia were awarded 2009 FISA World Crew of the Year for their performances at the World Rowing Championships, as well as being named USA Today's Athletes of the Month.[3] Erin was also awarded the Female Athlete of the Year award for 2009 by her teammates and coaches on the US Rowing National Team.

During her training in the 2008 Olympic year, Cafaro discovered CrossFit, and incorporated the training ideologies, concepts and workouts into her full-time, year round rowing program. Starting 2009 Cafaro started touring the world as a Crossfit Rowing Subject Matter Expert for Concept 2, coaching CrossFit coaches and athletes on their technique and training on the Concept 2 ergometer.

After retiring from rowing in 2012, Cafaro became VP of Operations for 3Fu3l, a startup sports supplement company. She transitioned into coaching full-time for Concept 2 and Unscared, Inc. starting 2014. In 2014 Cafaro also married Human Performance Coach and NYT Best Selling Author Brian MacKenzie. The two created the sports performance company Power Speed Endurance in 2016. Cafaro-MacKenzie managed operations for PSE for 2 years.

Cafaro-MacKenzie pivoted away from the sports performance world into the research and mental wellness space beginning of 2018. She is currently working as a Clinical Coordinator on a research project on fear, anxiety and therapeutic interventions at the Huberman Lab in the Stanford School of Medicine Dept. of Neurobiology.

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Archived copy". Archived from the original on November 2, 2012. Retrieved July 12, 2010.
  2. 1 2 "Erin CAFARO – worldrowing.com". www.worldrowing.com. Retrieved June 12, 2015.
  3. ↑ "Athletes – worldrowing.com". www.worldrowing.com. Retrieved June 12, 2015.
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