Ted Farwell

Hometown: Madison, Wis.

Current Residence: Philadelphia, Pa.

Club Affiliations: Penn Athletic Club/USRowing Training Center

Began Rowing: 1999 -- Middlesex School

Date of Birth: 6/20/1983  

Height: 6’5”  

Weight: 211

High School: Middlesex School

Undergraduate Education: Colby College, Philosophy, 2005

Occupation: Pharmaceuticals with TTC, LLC.

Current Coaches: Mike Teti and Ted Nash

International Results: Finished 12th in the men’s pair at the second 2007 FISA World Cup stop in Lucerne…Finished fourth in the men’s pair with coxswain at the 2006 FISA World Championships.

National Results: Finished fourth in the men’s pair at the 2007 National Selection Regatta…Won the men’s pair with coxswain at the 2006 U.S. National Team Trials.

Personal: Ted is a two-time senior national team member…He said his most memorable sporting achievement was racing a 17-kilometer race for the University of Otago in New Zealand…He was an all-league center in football…Ted lists his personal heroes as the person who invented air conditioning (Willis Haviland) and Japan’s Takeru Kobayashi, the competitive eater who held the record for eating hot dogs…He lists his greatest rowing memory as competing at the Henley Royal Regatta with his Colby teammates.