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Pocock Classic Cedar Singles
Ted Nash
10/7/02

Ted A. Nash
To make the US Rowing Team is quite an accomplishment. To make it well over twenty times is awesome. I'm not sure if anyone else has surpassed the number of Teams of which Ted Nash has been a member.
As an oarsman, Ted rowed for the Lake Washington Rowing Club. His first team was the 1959 Pan American Games and resulted in a gold medal in the US coxless-four. He added an Olympic gold medal at the 1960 Rome Olympic Games. Ted rowed in the US coxed-four at the 1961 European Championships and then added another Pan Am gold in the US coxless-four in 1963. At the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, Ted added an Olympic bronze.
Starting in 1968, Ted focused (and I mean focused) on coaching the US Team boats. I think I counted nearly 20 times that he has coached a boat on the US Team and with surprising success in the coxless-four event, which is commonly known as a European event. His coxless-fours have won numerous medals in the late eighties and early nineties.
Ted Nash is still coaching the US Team boats and his accomplishments will indeed carry into the twenty-first century. I nominate a great oarsman and a great coach who keeps surprising the skeptics year-in and year-out, Ted A. Nash, as one of The Century's Ten Most Notable People In American Rowing.
(From The Century's Ten Most Notable People in American Rowing by Bill Miller)