Name John Riley | Role Rower | |
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John Riley (born February 14, 1964 in Marin County, California) is an American rower who began his career at the University of Rhode Island in 1982. From 1986 to 1995, he raced on ten United States National Championship teams, rowed in two Olympic Games (1988: Seoul, South Korea; 1992: Barcelona, Spain), and participated in the 1990 Goodwill Games. In 1996 he was inducted to the United States Rowing Hall of Fame, and in 1999 he was inducted into the University of Rhode Island's Athletic Hall of Fame.
In 2007 John took the US ltwt men's 2x, Liverman and Montgomery, to the World Championships in Munich, Germany. He also coached them at the 2007 Pan American Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil where they won a silver medal. John also took PennAC's collegiate men's sweep program John now resides in Philadelphia, PA, where he serves as a rowing coach