USRowing Names 10 Olympic Reserves/Alternates
USRowing
MAY 15, 1996
10 RESERVES FOR OLYMPIC ROWING TEAM SELECTED
Indianapolis - U.S. Olympic coaches have selected 10 men
and women to be the reserves, or alternates, to the
Olympic rowing team. Reserves are available should one of
the members of the Olympic team become unable to compete.
The reserves are CINDY BROOKS, East Hampton, Conn.
(women's sculls/sweep); LISA CAREY, Washington, Conn.
(lightweight women's sculls); BARRY KLEIN, Lamont, Mich.
(lightweight men's sculls); GREG LEWIS, Suddury, Mass.
(men's sculls); JAMES MARTINEZ, Santa Fe, N.M. (men's
sculls); KEVIN COTTER, Buffalo, N.Y. (lightweight sweep);
CHRIS KERBER, Collingswood, N.J. (lightweight sweep);
MELISSA IVERSON, Anoka, Minn. (women's sweep); JIM NEIL,
Buffalo, N.Y. (men's sweep); and CHRIS SWAN, Old
Saybrook, Conn. (men's sweep). The U.S. Olympic rowing
team is a minimum of 44 athletes and a maximum of 48.
Two of the 10 reserves are 1992 Olympians -- Jim Neil and
Chris Swan. Neil was in the fourth place four with
coxswain in '92; Swan was a reserve. Together they rowed
the men's pair at the 1995 world championships but did
not win a medal. Two other reserves have not been on a
national rowing team -- Kevin Cotter, who is a Princeton
undergraduate who has been training with the lightweight
national squad and finished in the second-place
lightweight men's four at the Olympic trials and Greg
Lewis, who placed second in the double sculls at the
trials. Lewis, a medical student, emerged from a winter
training camp in Augusta, Ga., and trained with the
athletes who formed the Olympic quad. Chris Kerber was a
world champion in the lightweight men's four in 1993.
Two years ago, at the 1994 world championships a reserve
was used in the women's double. During the Pan American
Games, one athlete was unable to compete, but he was
replaced with another rower on the team, not a reserve.
Few reserves ever see competition yet must remain in peak
condition should they be needed. The majority of the 1996
reserves have been training at USRowing training centers
with the national coaches. All reserves must also submit
to drug testing. Beginning in 1996, Olympic reserves are
not considered part of the official team and will not be
living in the athlete village, in an attempt to reduce
the number of rowing athletes at the Olympics.
Name, Birth, Age, Ht., Wt., Hometown, Undergrad/year,
Club, Alternate status
CINDY BROOKS, 1/9/65, 31, 5' 10, 165, East Hampton,
Conn., Marietta/UNH '87, Lookout Rowin Club, Wsc
LISA CAREY, 3/21/69, 27, 5' 9, 128, Washington, Conn.,
McGill Univ. '91, Thames River Sculls, LWsc
KEVIN COTTER, 5/28/74, 21*, 6' 2, 155, Buffalo, N.Y.,
Princeton Univ., Princeton Training Center, LMsw
MELISSA IVERSON, 12/7/68, 27, 5' 8, 150, Anoka, Minn.,
Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison '92, Lookout Rowing Club, Wsw
CHRIS KERBER, 7/23/68, 27, 6' 0, 155, Collingswood, N.J.,
Temple Univ. '90 Princeton LMsw
BARRY KLEIN, 2/4/66, 30, 6' 0, 154, Lamont, Mich., Grand
Valley Univ. '88, Long Beach, LMsc
GREGORY LEWIS, 6/27/72, 23*, 6' 3, 195, Suddury, Mass.,
Dartmouth College '94, Rochester Rowing Club/ Ntl.
Sculling Center, Msc
JAMES MARTINEZ, 12/8/64, 31, 6' 3, 160, Santa Fe, N.M.,
Stanford Univ. '88, Potomac, Msc
JAMES NEIL, 5/15/68, 28, 6' 3, 197, Buffalo, N.Y.,
Rutgers Univ. '90, ARCO, Msw
CHRIS SWAN, 9/24/67, 28, 6' 3, 205, Old Saybrook, Conn.,
Harvard Univ. '90, ARCO, Msw
(M=Men; W= women; LM=lightweight men; LW=lightweight
women; sw=sweep; sc=sculling.)
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