Simmonds, Kerry

Kerry Simmonds was born in 1989 in San Diego , California . She graduated from high school Torrey Pines. In 2007, she entered the University of Washington , where she studied biology while doing rowing. In 2010, Kerry as part of the eight became the champion of the youth world championship. Since 2013, Simmonds began performing at the adult level and at the World Cup, Kerry as part of the eight became the world champion. In 2014, the eight with Kerry in the composition could not pass the national selection for the world championship , as a result of which Kerry had to qualify for him in the doubles without a steering along with Megan Kalmou . Simmonds and Kalmow confidently overcame the preliminary rounds, but in the final two seconds lost to the British athletes. In 2015, the American eight with Kerry in the squad was able to qualify for the World Cup and won a gold medal there, ahead of the New Zealand and Canadian athletes.

In 2016, Simmonds as part of the eight took part in the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro . In the boat, Kerry was located in the second room. The American crew confidently won the preliminary stage of the competition, ahead of the nearest pursuers from the Netherlands by 8 seconds. After the first half of the final race, the Americans were in third position, slightly inferior to the leading teams of Canada and the Netherlands, but from the very beginning of the second half of the distance, American athletes increased their pace and came to the finish line first, extending the winning streak of the US national team in women's eights to three Games , thereby repeating the achievement of the Romanian national team, who won in the period from 1996 to 2004. At the finish, Simmonds and his partners were 2.5 seconds ahead of their closest British pursuers.

After graduating from a sports career, she works as an assistant rowing coach at the University of Oregon .

• Kerry Simmonds - profile on the FISA website
• US Rowing Federation Profile