Elizabeth Martin
2023 Pan American Games
- 2National Teams
- 1Pan American Games Medals
- 1World Championship Medals
National Teams
Two-Senior, 2022; Pan American Games, 2023
International Results
Finished second in the lightweight double sculls at the 2023 Pan American Games. Won bronze in the lightweight double sculls at the 2023 Pan American Games Qualification Regatta. Finished second in the lightweight quadruple sculls at the 2022 World Rowing Championships. Finished second in the quadruple sculls at the 2022 Holland Beker Regatta. Raced in the championship quadruple sculls at the 2022 Henley Women's Regatta. Won the senior lightweight pair and finished second in the senior lightweight double sculls at the 2019 Canadian Henley.
National Results
Won the lightweight quadruple sculls and open weight quadruple sculls at the 2022 USRowing Summer National Championships. Finished fourth in the lightweight single sculls at the 2022 USRowing National Selection Regatta I. Won the lightweight single sculls at the 2021 Head of the Charles. Won the lightweight single sculls at the 2021 Head of the Schuylkill. Won the lightweight single sculls and lightweight pair at the 2021 USRowing Summer National Championships. Finished fifth in the lightweight double sculls at the 2020 U.S. Olympic Team Trials Rowing. Finished third in the lightweight double sculls at the 2020 Head of the Charles. Finished third in the lightweight eight at the 2016 Head of the Charles. Finished fifth in the lightweight eight at the 2016 Intercollegiate Rowing Association National Championships.
Personal
Liz is a two-time CRCA Scholar-Athlete and IRA All-Academic team member. She was a U.S. Figure Skating gold medalist. Liz was a competitive figure skater and a ballet dancer before she found rowing. She was a member and vice president of the MIT Figure Skating Club for several years, and she still loves figure skating in her spare time. Liz enjoys running, reading, and learning about interesting science. She works as a full-time computational biologist at The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard in the Getz Lab. The lab specializes in cancer genome analysis. Her research is focused on studying patterns of drug resistance in different cancer types. She completed her masters in English at MIT in 2020. She loves being able to pursue two things that she is passionate about: science and rowing. She found rowing when her parents encouraged her to join a team sport when she entered high school. She joined her local club at the time, Navesink River Rowing, and then when she started rowing at BB&N on the Charles River later in high school, she got hooked. Liz admired so many female athletes, and growing up as a figure skater, two of her personal heroes were Michelle Kwan and Sarah Hughes. Now, she says many of her personal heroes are women that she is lucky enough to be on the national Teamt with, as well as runners like Molly Seidel and Shalane Flanagan.
- Boat Class
- Lightweight Women's Double Sculls (2x) Women's Eight (8+)
- Training Location
- Cambridge, Mass.
- Height
- 5'7"
- Weight
- 125
- Hometown
- Lexington, Mass.
- College
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Computer Science and Molecular Biology, 2018
- High School
- Buckingham Browne & Nichols School
