Name: Oksana Masters
Sport: Para Rowing
Event: Sculling
Height: 5’8”
Current Residence: Louisville, KY
Paralympic Experience:
- 2012 Paralympic Games, bronze (mixed double sculls)
Career Highlights:
- 2012 Final Olympic Qualification Regatta, first place (Trunk and arms mixed double
sculls)
- 2012 Non-Qualified Paralympic Trials, first place (Trunk and arms mixed double sculls)
Fun Facts: In 2007, Oksana received the Bayada Regatta Leo Reilly, Jr. Award for outstanding spirit and determination…She received the Metro Disability Coalition Spotlight Award in 2002
and 2007…In 2007, Oksana took part in the Governor Scholar Program…In her spare
time, she enjoys working out, rowing, swimming and singing in the car…Oksana lists
here most memorable sporting achievement, besides competing on the U.S. National
Team, as rowing the Head of the Eagle as the only adaptive rower in the head race in the
woman’s open single sculls event as Trunk and Arms competing with able-bodied rowers
and not being the last to finish…She chose rowing because people wouldn’t stop telling
her to give it a try, but then when she tried it, she knew it was where she belonged…
The most influential person in her sporting career is her rowing coach, Bob Hurley, “who
believed in me and my dream so much as to purchasing a double scull to train in and also
for dedicating so much of his unpaid time and expertise on helping me be a well-rounded
athlete, rower and person all together”…Oksana lists her personal hero as her mom…
Someday Oksana hopes to stand on the Paralympic podium with a gold medal and to row
on as many different bodies of water all over the world as she can. After that, she wants to
give back to the adaptive rowing community to new rowers with big dreams and pursue
the medical field.
Learn more:
US Para Rowing