Coral Kasden

Two-Pan American Games, 2019; Beach, 2023

Won gold in the mixed quadruple sculls at the 2023 World Rowing Beach Sprint Finals. Finished fourth in the women's quadruple sculls with coxswain at the 2022 World Rowing Coastal Championships. Reached the semifinals in the Remenham Challenge Cup at the 2022 Henley Royal Regatta. Finished sixth in the men's eight at the 2019 Pan American Games. Won the men's club eight at the 2014, 2014, and 2016 Canadian Henley.

Won the lightweight four and lightweight four with coxswain (not as the coxswain) and finished third in the lightweight quadruple sculls at the 2023 USRowing Summer National Championships. Won the mixed quadruple sculls with coxswain at the 2023 Beach Sprints National Team Trials. Finished second in the lightweight pair at the 2021 USRowing Summer National Championships. Finished second in the women's championship four with coxswain at the 2021 Head of the Charles. Finished second in the women's championship eight at the 2017 Head of the Charles. Won the lightweight men's four with coxswain at the 2016 Head of the Charles.

Coral enjoys powerlifting and holds an American record on the Concept2 erg for the marathon distance. She walked on to the women's club rowing team her freshman year of college and stroked the second novice eight before moving to the men's team to start coxing. Her men's coach had the coxswains do all the ergs, training for 2ks, 6ks, 10ks, with goal splits, could pass/fail workouts, and wouldn't get boated if they did not start or did not finish. The first time she realized coxswains didn't train was when she had just graduated from college and went to New York Athletic Club. It was 2k evaluation day, and she was handed a clipboard. She immediately handed it off to another coxswain and jumped on an empty erg in the last wave of tests and ripped a 2k. She lists Seth Weil, 2016 Rio Olympian in the men's four, as one of her personal heroes. He started as a club guy at the University of California, Davis (and was coached by Coral's college coach, Desmond Stahl). He's a club guy that made it, along with Matt Miller from the University of Virginia, also in the 2016 men's four. It's hard to make it as a club athlete and especially hard to make it as a club coxswain, Coral says. Even though she has 10 years of training experience since she joined the rowing club, there is still a stigma attached to her club background. That being said, having been a club athlete and training under Desmond Stahl set the foundation for the coxswain she is today. If she wasn't rowing, she would be coaching or teaching and training for anything that pushes her body and mind to the limit, like powerlifting or ultra running. Her favorite place to compete is the Head of the Charles, always and forever. Her favorite Olympic moment was hands-down the Tokyo 2020 women's lightweight double sculls final, all predictions out the window and 1.0 second across the top five finishers.