Natalie Dell O'Brien (born February 20, 1985), formerly known as Natalie Dell,
is an American female
crew
A crew is a body or a class of people who work at a common activity, generally in a structured or hierarchical organization. A location in which a crew works is called a crewyard or a workyard. The word has nautical resonances: the tasks involved ...
rower. She won the bronze medal at the
2012 Summer Olympics in the
quadruple sculls event. Natalie won a silver medal at the
2011 World Rowing Championships in
Bled, Slovenia
Bled (; german: Veldes,''Leksikon občin kraljestev in dežel zastopanih v državnem zboru,'' vol. 6: ''Kranjsko''. 1906. Vienna: C. Kr. Dvorna in Državna Tiskarna, p. 146. in older sources also ''Feldes'') is a town on Lake Bled in the Upper Ca ...
in the Women's quadruple sculls event. She is a three-time American national team member.
Born in
Silver Spring, Maryland
Silver Spring is a census-designated place (CDP) in southeastern Montgomery County, Maryland, United States, near Washington, D.C. Although officially unincorporated, in practice it is an edge city, with a population of 81,015 at the 2020 ce ...
,
she graduated from Everett High School in
Everett, Pennsylvania
Everett is a borough in Bedford County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 1,775 at the 2020 census.
Everett's original name was Bloody Run, after a creek that was the site of a battle between settlers and Native Americans. The to ...
. She attended the
Pennsylvania State University from 2003–2007, where she learned to row as a walk on to the university's club rowing team. She attended
Boston University
Boston University (BU) is a Private university, private research university in Boston, Massachusetts. The university is nonsectarian, but has a historical affiliation with the United Methodist Church. It was founded in 1839 by Methodists with ...
for graduate school and trained at the
Riverside Boat Club from 2007–2010 until she was named as a Team USA member in September 2010.
See also
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List of Pennsylvania State University Olympians
The List of Pennsylvania State University Olympians is a list of former or current Penn State students (129) and coaches/faculty members (12) that have made an appearance as athletes or medaled at the Olympic Games, plus one athlete for the boycott ...
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1985 births
Living people
Rowers at the 2012 Summer Olympics
Olympic bronze medalists for the United States in rowing
American female rowers
Medalists at the 2012 Summer Olympics
World Rowing Championships medalists for the United States
21st-century American women
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