Carie Graves

Who is Carie Graves?

Carie Brand Graves is an American rower who won medals in the 1976 and 1984 Summer Olympics.

Carie Graves grew up in Wyoming Township near Spring Green, Wisconsin, and she attended River Valley High School.

Her first experience with rowing was as a walk-on when she was a freshman at the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1971. Her freshmen team went to the women's national championships. Her first international success came in 1975 when she won a silver medal in the eight-oared shell at the World Championships, as part of what came to be known as the "Red Rose Crew", coached by Harry Parker. She then made the 1976 Olympic team in the eight, adding an Olympic bronze. But she continued to row and made the 1980 Olympic team, rowing on the eight that won the Lucerne Regatta over East Germany.

In 1981 she had the six-oar for the women’s eight that finished second at the World Championships in Munich, but her big moment that year came at the Henley Royal Regatta when she was a member of the winning fours with crew in the first year that women were admitted to the Henley.