Rachel Lynn Mayer (

married name When a person (traditionally the wife in many cultures) assumes the family name of their spouse, in some countries that name replaces the person's previous surname, which in the case of the wife is called the maiden name ("birth name" is also used ...

: Godino) (born December 12, 1973) is an American former

ice dancer Ice dance (sometimes referred to as ice dancing) is a discipline of figure skating that historically draws from ballroom dancing. It joined the World Figure Skating Championships in 1952, and became a Winter Olympic Games medal sport in 1976. Ac ...

. With partner Peter Breen, she represented the

United States at the 1992 Winter Olympics The United States competed at the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville, France. Competitors The following is the list of number of competitors in the Games. Medalists The following U.S. competitors won medals at the games. In the by disciplin ...

where they placed 15th.

Personal life

Mayer was born December 12, 1973 in

Minneapolis, Minnesota Minneapolis () is the largest city in Minnesota, United States, and the county seat of Hennepin County. The city is abundant in water, with thirteen lakes, wetlands, the Mississippi River, creeks and waterfalls. Minneapolis has its origins ...

. In 1991, she graduated from The Rivers School in Weston, Massachusetts. She married Tom Godino, Jr., with whom she has three children – Kylie, Thomas, and Annie. She lives in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida.

Career

Mayer and Breen won the silver medal at the 1992 U.S. Championships. They competed at the

1992 Winter Olympics ) , nations = 64 , athletes = 1,801 (1313 men, 488 women) , events = 57 in 6 sports (12 disciplines) , opening = 8 February 1992 , closing = 23 February 1992 , opened_by = President François Mitterrand , cauldron ...

Albertville Albertville (; Arpitan: ''Arbèrtvile'') is a subprefecture of the Savoie department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region in Southeastern France. It is best known for hosting the 1992 Winter Olympics and Paralympics. In 2018, the commune had ...

, France, finishing 15th. Their original dance was to the music of ''Saak-I-Jaarven'' and their free dance was to the soundtrack of ''

Doctor Zhivago ''Doctor Zhivago'' is the title of a novel by Boris Pasternak and its various adaptations. Description The story, in all of its forms, describes the life of the fictional Russian physician and poet Yuri Zhivago and deals with love and loss during ...

''. In 2001, Mayer was elected chair of the

United States Olympic Committee The United States Olympic & Paralympic Committee (USOPC) is the National Olympic Committee and the National Paralympic Committee for the United States. It was founded in 1895 as the United States Olympic Committee, and is headquartered in Col ...

's Athletes' Advisory Council (AAC) for 2001–2004 and served on the USOC Board of Directors and the USOC Executive Committee. She also served on the Salt Lake Organizing Committee Board of Trustees, which helped plan the

2002 Winter Olympics The 2002 Winter Olympics, officially the XIX Olympic Winter Games and commonly known as Salt Lake 2002 ( arp, Niico'ooowu' 2002; Gosiute Shoshoni: ''Tit'-so-pi 2002''; nv, Sooléí 2002; Shoshoni: ''Soónkahni 2002''), was an internation ...

. In 2003, the USOC was involved in controversy concerning its CEO, Lloyd Ward, and its President, Marty Mankamyer. Mayer testify in Congress before both Senate and House committees about various issues concerning the structure, governance, and operation of the USOC. The controversy led to the creation in 2003 of both a USOC Governance and Ethics Task Force and an Independent Commission on Reform of the United States Olympic Committee, the members of the latter chosen by members of Congress. As the Chair of the Athletes Advisory Council, Mayer was a leader of the effort to reform the USOC, which culminated at a USOC Board of Directors meeting in October 2003, when the USOC Board voted to change the USOC governance structure, going from a 123-member Board, 21 Executive Committee members, and 19 committees with 195 committee members to an 11-member Board with no executive committee and four (4) standing committees with 20 members (most of whom are also members of the 11-member Board). Beginning in January 2006, Rachel Godino served as a member of the Board of Athletes for Hope, a public charity founded to, among other things, increase the involvement of Olympic and professional athletes in charitable and community causes.

Results

''GP: Champions Series (Grand Prix)'' ; with Breen

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Mayer, Rachel American female ice dancers Olympic figure skaters of the United States Figure skaters at the 1992 Winter Olympics Living people 1973 births Sportspeople from Minneapolis 21st-century American women