Ted Nash
Personal information
BornOctober 29, 1932 (1932-10-29)
Melrose, Massachusetts, U.S.
DiedJuly 3, 2021(2021-07-03) (aged 88)
Medford, New Jersey, U.S.
Medal record
Men's rowing
Representing the  United States
Olympic Games
Gold medal – first place 1960 Rome Coxless four
Bronze medal – third place 1964 Tokyo Coxless four

Theodore Allison Nash II (October 29, 1932 – July 3, 2021) was an American competition rower and Olympic champion, rowing coach, and sports administrator.[1][2] Nash participated, either as a coach or athlete, in eleven separate Olympic Games from 1960 to 2008.[3]

Early life

He was born in Melrose, Massachusetts.[1][2] Nash served as a pilot[3] and first lieutenant in the Army Aviation division, teaching aviation and aerobatics.[1] He was a member of the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve. While in the military, he was also an anti-guerrilla warfare instructor, an officer candidate school tactical officer for the Army and a member of the elite Green Beret, and special forces units for the Army. He was recalled four times on special friendly projects across the world.

Nash has served as both freshman and varsity coach for Penn and been a longtime supporter and icon of Penn AC.

Rowing career

Nash won a gold medal in coxless fours at the 1960 Summer Olympics[1][4] and a bronze for the same event at the 1964 Olympics.[1] He also won gold medals at the 1959 and 1963 Pan American Games.[1][2][5]

Coaching career

Nash coached at the University of Pennsylvania, first as freshman coach from 1965, then as head coach from 1969–1983.[6][1][2] He was also a longtime supporter of Penn AC.[6] Nash co-founded the National Women's Rowing Association and was the unofficial running coach at the Padukies Track Club in Philadelphia.[7]

He also coached entrepreneurs Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss in the coxless pair at the 2008 Beijing Olympics.[8]

Personal life and sexual assault allegations

Nash died at the age of 88 on July 3, 2021, in Medford, New Jersey.[9][1][3]

In 2023, the documentary filmmaker Jennifer Fox said that Nash had sexually abused her when she was 13 and he was 40.[7][10] Nash was Fox's running instructor in 1973 when she was at horseback riding summer camp.[7] Fox alleges that Nash forced her to perform oral sex multiple times. Fox also disclosed that in high school she wrote an essay detailing the abuse.[7] She had previously told the story of her abuse, without revealing Nash's identity, in the 2018 film The Tale.[7][10]

Nash's first wife Aldina Nash-Hampe described the accusation as a "surprise", but conceded that Nash "seemed to have affairs with a lot of women" and in 1972 she filed for a divorce after she found letters from Nash to other women.[7] Jan Nash, his second wife, and Sean P. Colgan, one of Nash's former collegiate and national team rowers, described the accusations as uncharacteristic.[7]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Giordano, Rita (July 13, 2021). "Ted Nash, Penn and Olympics rowing legend," dies at 88". The Philadelphia Inquirer.
  2. 1 2 3 4 "Ted Nash". olympedia.org. Retrieved 14 March 2021.
  3. 1 2 3 Hewitt, Ed (July 5, 2021). "Ted A. Nash, A True Giant of Rowing, Has Passed". row2k.com. Retrieved 6 July 2021.
  4. ↑ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Ted Nash". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on April 18, 2020. Retrieved December 18, 2008. "Theodore Allison 'Ted' Nash, II"
  5. ↑ "Olympians Who Won a Medal at the Summer Pan American Games (8552)". olympedia.org. Retrieved 14 March 2021.
  6. 1 2 USRowing.org (July 4, 2021). "In Memory: Ted Nash". Retrieved July 24, 2021.
  7. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Macur, Juliet (20 March 2023). "For Years She Said a Coach Abused Her. Now She Has Named a Legend". The New York Times.
  8. ↑ Matson, Barbara (27 July 2008). "Rowing machines". Boston.com.
  9. ↑ Ted Nash at Olympedia
  10. 1 2 "'The Tale' Filmmaker Jennifer Fox on Surviving Childhood Sexual Abuse & Finally Naming Her Abuser". Democracy Now!. 30 March 2023. Retrieved 31 March 2023.
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