Sam Dowd

One-Junior, 2022

Finished 21st in the single sculls at the 2022 USRowing Youth National Championships. Won the single sculls at the 2022 USRowing Central Youth Championships. Finished third in the youth single sculls at the 2021 Head of the Charles. Won the single sculls at the 2021 USRowing Youth National Regatta.

Sam enjoys rowing, drawing, coding, running, and camping. He ran cross-country throughout high school and is the only male rower in Nebraska, so he practiced with a Division I women's program (Creighton). Sam's father was a national and international rowing coach in Canada and began coaching Sam when he turned 11. He names his personal hero as Ollie Zeilder. Sam said he always thinks about how Zeilders' face is totally expressionless through the bulk of the race, and it is something Dowd aspires to do through 2ks.