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John Tanguay '20CC

  • Position PR3 Mixed 4 W/Coxswain
  • Class Senior
  • Hometown Pennington, N.J.
  • Previous School Hopewell Valley Central H.S.
  • College Paralympic Rowing

Biography

JOHN TANGUAY ‘20CC | USA Rowing Bio
United States | Pennington, N.J. | Hopewell Valley Central H.S.
Social Media: Instagram
 
World/National Stage: Qualified for the Olympics in the PR3 Mixed Four with Coxswain event … Earned berth to 2020 USRowing Paralympic Selection Camp … Competed for the United States Senior National Team in 2019 … Won a Silver Medal at the 2019 World Rowing Championships in Linz, Austria … Born with clubfoot.
 
At Columbia (2016-20): Competed for three years and in over 50 races regionally and nationally on Columbia’s Heavyweight Rowing Team … His final year, 2019-20 was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic … Rowed from the fifth seat or the Second Varsity Eight in both EARC Sprints and IRA Naitonal Championships as a junior … As a sophomore, rowed from the fifth seat for the Varsity Eight in the EARC Sprints … As a first-year, competed in the No. 5 seat for the second Varsity Eight at the EARC Sprints and in the No. 7 seat at the IRA National Championships … Graduated from Columbia College in 2020 with a degree in Computer Science … Rowed at PNRA/Mercer from 2011-16 … Working toward a Master of Science degree from Trinity Business School in Operations and Supply Chain Management … Serves as Regional Editor for CRXSS Magazine and as a computer science tutor at Verve Academy.
 
More on Tanguay:
https://gocolumbialions.com/news/2021/6/21/heavyweight-rowing-john-tanguay-20cc-punches-ticket-to-2020-paralympic-games.aspx
https://gocolumbialions.com/news/2021/5/28/heavyweight-rowing-john-tanguay-20cc-heads-to-usrowing-paralympic-selection-camp.aspx
https://gocolumbialions.com/news/2019/9/9/heavyweight-rowing-john-tanguay-takes-silver-for-the-us-at-the-world-rowing-championships.aspx
http://www.universitytimes.ie/2021/01/dubc-rower-john-tanguays-journey-to-the-2021-paralympics/
https://www.facebook.com/USRowing/videos/john-tanguay-pr3-mixed-4-talks-about-advancing-to-the-final-qualifying-the-boat-/428548421077667/
https://www.communitynews.org/towns/hopewell-express/rower-spurns-courts-for-the-lake/article_c93cb47c-ce1a-51c7-a71b-ac068b021515.html
https://www.tcd.ie/Sport/news/2021/john-tanguay.php