Esther Lofgren
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Esther Ruth Lofgren (born February 28, 1985, in Long Beach, California) is an American rower and an Olympic gold medalist. She won gold medal in the women’s eight at the 2012 Summer Games in London. Lofgren is a graduate of Harvard College, where she rowed for Radcliffe Crew and was a two-time All-American. She is an eight-time member of the U.S. National Rowing Team, a current World Record holder in the women’s eight, and a seven-time World Championship medalist.
Lofgren attended Mariners Elementary School and Ensign Middle School in Newport Beach, California. Esther Lofgren graduated as valedictorian from Newport Harbor High School in Newport Beach, California, where she had the chance to play volleyball and basketball with fellow 2012 Olympian April Ross before taking up rowing.
Esther began rowing at age 13 at the Newport Aquatic Center, where Olympic Gold Medalist Xeno Muller coached her for a season. Lofgren helped the women’s junior team qualify the eight for the National Youth Invitational for the first time in the program’s history, and performed well enough by her junior and senior years to be recruited by top schools.
Introduced to the sport in 1998, Esther Lofgren continued rowing at Harvard University, where she was twice named a first-team DI All-American, as well as a winner of the Athletic Excellence Award her senior year. She also competed on the U.S. National Rowing Team, making the squad for the first time as a college sophomore, and won two Under-23 and Senior World Championships golds, a silver, and a bronze while still an undergrad. (YH) After college, Esther Lofgren decided to pursue rowing full-time and moved to Princeton, NJ to join the USRowing Training Center.
After her sophomore year in college, Lofgren earned a seat on both the Under-23 and the Senior National Teams, winning and setting the World Record in the BW8+ and taking bronze in the W4- with future Olympic teammate Erin Cafaro. The next year, Lofgren joined future Olympic teammate Genevra Stone to win the BW4x, the only USA women's sculling crew at any level (Junior, Under-23, or Senior) that has won a world championship or Olympic title. Esther took the year off from college to compete for a spot on the Beijing Olympic squad, in 2008, but was instead the last woman cut from the selection camp. Lofgren then stroked the W4- to a silver medal at the 2008 World Rowing Championships. She also stroked the W4- to a silver medal at the 2009 World Rowing Championships, this time with future Olympic teammate Elle Logan.
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