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"Jason Read" is a rower who rowed in the bow seat in the 2004 Summer Olympics Gold medal-winning U.S. Men's Rowing Team.
Read was born and raised in the Ringoes, New Jersey/Ringoes section of East Amwell Township, New Jersey. He attended the Hun School of Princeton, where he took up rowing, continuing the sport at Temple University. As volunteer chief of the Amwell Valley - Ringoes Rescue Squad in Ringoes, he was among those who responded after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.
Read was a member of the U.S. rowing team for the 2008 Summer Olympics.
Read is a 13-time United States National Rowing team member. Since the 2004 Athens Olympic Games, he has worked to promote volunteerism, rowing and the Olympic movement throughout the United States. Jason became involved in rowing as the mascot for the Hun School’s rowing team in 1990 as a sixth grader and began coxing in eighth grade, the same year Jason began a distinguished volunteer career in emergency services. He is the only person from USRowing to be named “Man of the Year” twice, as he was recognized in 2001 following rescue operations at Ground Zero and again in 2004 after he and his teammates earned the Olympic gold medal in Athens.
In August 2011, Read was named as the Head Coach of Women's Rowing at Temple University by Athletic Director Bill Bradshaw.
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