JAMIE DEAN

Hometown: Pickerington, Ohio

Current Residence: Pickerington, Ohio

Club Affiliations: Wake Forest University RC/Greater Columbus RA

Began Rowing: Wake Forest University, 2001

Date of Birth: 5/31/82

Height: 6’2”

Weight: 170

High School: Capital High School (Charleston, W.Va.)

Undergraduate Education: Wake Forest University, 2005

Graduate Education: Wake Forest University School of Law and Babcock Graduate School of Management, JD-MBA 2009

Current Coach: Karen Lewis

International Results: Finished fifth in the legs-trunk-arms four with coxswain at the 2007 FISA World Championships...Finished fifth in the legs-trunk-arms four with coxswain at the 2006 FISA World Championships.

National Results: Won the legs-trunk-arms four with coxswain at the 2008 USRowing National Championships...Won the legs-trunk-arms four with coxswain at the 2007 USRowing National Championships.

Personal: Jamie is a three-time adaptive national team member and a first-time Paralympian...He is a Fletcher Scholar at Wake Forest University School of Law and a member of both the Phi Beta Kappa and Mortarboard National Honor Societies...Jamie enjoys playing guitar, writing, coaching WFU rowing, listening to new music, and reading...He lists his most memorable sporting achievement as reaching the finals of the varsity lightweight four at the Dad Vail Regatta as a senior...During high school, Jamie competed at the youth elite level in goalboal, a sport for blind and visually impaired athletes, and captained the 1999 Youth National Championship squad...He lists Dr. Paul Ponchillia, a goalball coach, as his first great sports role model for teaching him what it meant to be a competitor, leader, and athlete, and his father, Allen, as the greatest driver of his sporting career...Jamie lists his rowing goal as winning the first Paralympic gold medal ever awarded in the four with coxswain...He hopes to practice human rights law with an organization like International Justice Mission upon graduation.

(updated 7/3/2008)