Taylor Ritzel

Taylor Ritzel
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Born September 4, 1988 (age 26)
Aurora, Colorado

Taylor Ritzel (born September 4, 1988 in Aurora, Colorado)[1] is an American rower who was part of the United States women's eights team at the 2012 Summer Olympics. The team won an Olympic gold medal.[2] Ritzel started rowing at Yale University,[3] from which she graduated in 2010.[4] While at Yale, she won the I Eight event three times at the NCAA Championships (2007, 2008, 2010). Taylor is currently training for the 2016 Rio games and works as a social media manager at Digital Firefly Marketing in Princeton, NJ.[5]

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