Caryn Davies, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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American rower
Date of Birth: 14-Apr-1982
Place of Birth: Ithaca, New York, United States
Profession: rower
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Aries 
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About Caryn Davies
- Caryn Davies (born April 14, 1982 in Ithaca, New York) is an American rower.
- She won gold medals as the stroke seat in women's eight at the 2012 Summer Olympics and the 2008 Summer Olympics.
- In April 2015 Davies stroked Oxford University to victory in the first ever women's Oxford/Cambridge boat race held on the same stretch of the river Thames in London where the men's Oxford/Cambridge race has been held since 1829.
- She was the most highly decorated Olympian to take part in either [men's or women's] race.
- In 2012 Davies was ranked number 4 in the world by the International Rowing Federation.
- At the 2004 Olympic Games she won a silver medal in the women's eight.
- Davies has won more Olympic medals than any other U.S.
- oarswoman.
- The 2008 U.S.
- women's eight, of which she was a part, was named FISA (International Rowing Federation) crew of the year.
- Davies is from Ithaca, New York, where she graduated from Ithaca High School, and rowed with the Cascadilla Boat Club.
- Davies was on the Radcliffe College (Harvard) Crew Team and was a member on Radcliffe's 2003 NCAA champion Varsity 8, and overall team champion.
- In 2013, she was a visiting student at Pembroke College, Oxford, where she stroked the college men's eight to a victory in both Torpids (spring intercollegiate races) and the Oxford University Summer Eights races (for the first time in Oxford rowing history).
- In 2013–14 Davies took up Polynesian outrigger canoeing in Hawaii, winning the State novice championship and placing 4th in the long distance race na-wahine-o-ke-kai with her team from the Outrigger Canoe Club.
- In 2013, she was inducted into the New York Athletic Club Hall of Fame.
- She has served as a Vice President of the U.S.
- Olympians Association and as athletes' representative to the Board of USRowing. Davies has a degree from Harvard University (A.B.
- Psychology, 2005), a J.D.
- (Doctor of Law) from Columbia Law School (2013) and an MBA from Oxford University (2015).
- Davies is the most decorated Harvard Olympian in any sport.
- During 2013–2014, Davies served as a clerk to Judge Richard Clifton of the U.S.
- Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit in Honolulu, Hawaii.
- She is currently an attorney with Goodwin Procter in Boston, Massachusetts.
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