| Rank | Event | Year | Location | Result |
| Olympic Games | ||||
| 1 | Eight | 1992 | Barcelona, ESP | 6:02.62 |
| 2 | Eight | 1996 | Atlanta, GA, USA | 6:24.05 |
| 2 | Coxed Four | 1984 | Los Angeles, CA, USA | 3:21.55 |
| 3 | Eight | 2000 | Sydney, NSW, AUS | 6:11.58 |
| 4 | Eight | 2008 | Beijing, CHN | 6:08.04 |
| World Championships | ||||
| 1 | Eight | 1991 | Vienna, AUT | 6:28.20 |
| 2 | Eight | 2011 | Bled, SLO | 6:04.39 |
| 2 | Eight | 2010 | Hamilton, NZL | 6:16.12 |
| 2 | Eight | 1997 | Lac d'Aiguebellette, FRA | 6:07.18 |
| 3 | Eight | 1999 | St. Catharines, ON, CAN | 6:53.19 |
| 3 | Eight | 1998 | Cologne, GER | 6:18.25 |
| 3 | Coxed Four | 1986 | Nottingham, GBR | 6:51.27 |
| 3 | Coxed Four | 1985 | Hazewinkel, BEL | 6:55.67 |
| 6 | Eight | 2009 | Poznan, POL | 6:16.68 |
| World Cup | ||||
| 1 | Eight | 2012 | Munich, GER | 6:19.31 |
| 1 | Eight | 2012 | Munich, GER | 6:19.31 |
| 2 | Eight | 2012 | Lucerne, SUI | 5:59.29 |
| 2 | Eight | 2012 | Lucerne, SUI | 5:59.29 |
| 2 | Eight | 2011 | Lucerne, SUI | 6:29.41 |
| 2 | Eight | 2010 | Lucerne, SUI | 6:12.39 |
Hobbies
Scuba diving, cycling, running, home renovations and collecting antiques. (Rowing Canada, 16 Jan 2007)
Occupation
Athlete, Coach, Teacher
Education
Education, Physical Education - University of Western Ontario, Canada
Family
Husband Paul
Language(s) spoken
English
Club name
London Rowing Club, London, ON, CAN
Coach
John Keogh [national] (cscontario.ca, 01 Aug 2011)
Position and style
Coxswain (avironmontreal.com, 02 Sep 2011; Rowing Canada, 24 Jul 2007)
Sporting relatives
She competed as a gymnast [until 1983] and as a track and field athlete at university level, helping University of Western Ontario to win the Ontario Women's Inter-university Athletic Association championships in 1981-82, 1984-85 and 1989-90. She won the Women's Athletic Alumni award in 1996. (rowingone.com, 24 Jul 2007; worldrowing.org, 2011)
Debut
1980 for Canada (northernblue.ca, 2011)
Additional information
Start of sporting career
She originally competed in gymnastics at college before taking up rowing in 1978. (gazette.uwo.ca, 23 Jan 2007)
Reason for taking up this sport
"After an injury during the University of Western Ontario's [UWO] gymnastics season, I decided to join the UWO rowing team." (metrasmuseum.omeka.net, 2011)
Training
She aims to have comparable fitness to the rowers that she leads. She feels that the fitter she is the clearer her head will be in pressure situations that might require her to make a race-affecting decision. (canoe.ca, 2000)
Awards
She has been inducted into the Canadian Olympic Sports Hall of Fame. (olympic.ca, 24 Sep 2010; rowingcanada.org, 2011)
In 2008 she became the first rower to be selected for seven Olympic Games, although she only competed in six due to the Canadian Olympic team's boycott of the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow. (bhfinder.com, 25 Jan 2010)
In winning bronze in the women's eight at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney she became the first Canadian to win a medal at four separate Olympic Games. (cbc.ca, 25 Jan 2010)
General
POTENTIAL 2012 RECORD
She was part of the Canadian women's eight boat that placed second at the 2011 World Rowing Championships, securing qualification for the 2012 Olympic Games in London. If she competes at the Games in London she will become the first rower to be selected for eight and participate in seven Olympic Games. Having first joined the Canadian national team in 1980, she will have represented her country for longer than any of her London 2012 crewmates under the age of 31 have been alive. (londoncommunitynews.com, 03 Sep 2011)
COACH, TEACHER, LIBRARIAN
She attended the National Coaching Institute in Victoria, Canada, in 1999 and assisted head coach Al Morrow at the 2000 Olympic Games. She has since involved herself with many varsity, regional and national teams, coaching them to success at various national and international competitions. She is also a teacher, and in 2011 was working as a librarian/teacher and coach at a high school in London, Ontario. (Canoe Canada, 16 Jan 2007; thelondoner.ca, 27 May 2011)
LONG HIATUS
After the 2000 Olympic Games she decided to take a break from the sport. However, she did not totally distance herself from all things rowing, and continued to coach the sport at a high school. In 2006 she decided to make a comeback and she re-joined the national team almost immediately. (Rowing Canada, 24 Jul 2007)
EARLY DAYS, WOODEN BOATS
When she started rowing in the late 1970s, races were 1000m [not 2000m], computers in rowing were unheard of, and the boats were made of wood. "Whenever you hit a piece of debris in the water, there would be a hole in the boat. We used to spend all our time fixing the boat. To think I've spent 30 years [as of 2008] in an obscure position in an obscure sport being wet and cold, people must think I'm crazy," she said. "I've never had a sponsor, but I've had good friendships and good relationships with a lot of people. That's what makes it special." (canada.com, 08 Aug 2008)
Previous Olympics
Beijing 2008, Sydney 2000, Atlanta 1996, Barcelona 1992, Seoul 1988, Los Angeles 1984
