Portia McGee
Height: 5-9
Weight: 155
Birthplace: Seattle, Wash.
Hometown: Seattle, Wash.
Residence: Princeton, N.J.
High School: The Bush School
Undergraduate Education: Brown University, 2001
Began Rowing: 1992 - Mt. Baker Rowing Club
Club Affiliations: USRowing Training Center
Training Location: Princeton, N.J.
Current Coaches: Tom Terhaar
Years on National Team: Seven -1996-97, Junior; 1999, 2001, Under 23; 2002, 2006-07 Senior
Event (s): Sweep
Facts of Interest:
Portia was named USRowing's 2007 Female Athlete of the Year. After many years on the east coast, Portia looks forward to joining her husband, Luke McGee, in her hometown of Seattle, Wash., this fall where Luke coaches rowing at the University of Washington. Portia and Luke were married in the fall of 2006 after meeting on the 1997 U.S. Junior National Team, where they both rowed seven seat. Portia lists John and Phoebe Murphy, her coaches at Brown University, as her rowing mentors and her husband, mother and father as her biggest supporters and greatest rowing fans on earth. She was in Sports Illustrated's Faces in the Crowd in September of 1997.
International Results:
2007, FISA World Championships, Women's Four, 1st
2007, FISA World Championships, Women's Pair, 7th
2007, FISA World Cup - Lucerne, Women's Eight, 1st
2006, FISA World Championships, Women's Four, 3rd
2006, FISA World Cup - Lucerne, Women's Eight, 2nd
National Results:
2001, NCAA Championships, Women's Eight, 2nd
2000, NCAA Championships, Women's Eight, 1st