Name: Jenny Sichel
Position: C
Sport: Rowing
Classification: Legs, Trunk and Arms Four with Coxswain
Height: 5-3
Weight: 110
DOB: 3/9/1988
Birthplace: New York, N.Y.
Hometown: Clifton, N.J.
High School: Clifton High School (Clifton, N.J.) ‘06
College: Bryn Mawr College ’10, Mathematics
Coach(es): Ellen Minzner
Paralympic Experience
  • One-time Paralympian (2016); One-time medalist (1 silver)
  • Rio 2016 Paralympic Games, silver (LTAMix4+)
World Championship Experience
  • Most recent: 2015 – silver (LTAMix4+)
  • Years of participation: 2010, 2013, 2014, 2015
  • Medals: 2 (2 silver)
  • Silver – 2014 (LTAMix4+), 2015 (LTAMix4+)
Personal: Sichel began rowing her freshman year of college because the school did not have a softball team. She was the 2010 Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference Rower and the 2010 Bryn Mawr College Most Valuable Rower. She received the 2010 Bryn Mawr College Founder’s Award. She was named the 2007 Mid-Atlantic All-Region Novice Rower. She was a rower before a herniated disc caused her to switch to coxing. The most influential people in her athletic career are her college rowing coach Carol Bower, who taught her the sport and encouraged her national team aspirations....Has one brother, Billy…Her hobbies include baking, running, pole vaulting, baton twirling and playing softball…In high school, she was a drum majorette for the band and earned the Clifton High School Drum Majorette Award for Excellence in Performance…Her pre-race ritual is her “race day hair,” the braids she has worn for every race in her career…Most memorable sporting achievement is making the 2010 U.S. National Team…After rowing, she plans to study veterinary medicine.
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