Peter Davis Mallory comes from a New England nautical family. His great great great grandfather built whaling ships in Mystic, Connecticut. His father and grandfather both sculled while attending Yale. Peter began his rowing career in 1959 as an coxswain at Kent School and lived down the hallway from Steve Gladstone, the only contemporary coach ever to win ten IRA Championships. They remain good friends. In 1966, Peter stroked the Lightweight Varsity at the University of Pennsylvania. During his career he has also represented Undine BC and Vesper BC in Philadelphia, Cambridge BC in the Boston area, and Long Beach RA, Mission Bay RA, San Diego RC and ZLAC RC in California. He has won four Canadian and two U.S. National Championships as an athlete. In 1972, he was the single sculler on the American composite lightweight team that toured Europe. He has coached at Penn, Long Beach State, LBRA, ZLAC, San Diego State and San Diego RC. His crews have won more than fifty U.S. National Championships, and he has been a U.S. National Coach five times. His first book was a humorous memoir called An Out-of-Boat Experience . . . or God is a Rower, and He Rows like Me! which is now in its second printing. Signed copies are available through www.row2k.com, and he donates all proceeds to support row2k. His current book project, a detailed evolutionary history of world rowing technique, has the working title "Different Strokes, 200 Years of Rowing History." He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Friends of Rowing History. His son, Philip, won a Southwest Regional Rowing Championship for San Diego Rowing Club and is currently coaching at his alma mater, Boston University. His stepdaughter, Emily Ten Eyck, rowed for ZLAC and for Northeastern University. His wife of five years, Susan, rowed for ZLAC while in high school during the 1970s. After several years spent researching his latest book, Mallory has resumed serious training with the intention of resuming competitive rowing in 2009. |
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| 1971 U.S. Nationals Orchard Beach Vesper Boat Club Silver Medal Lightweight Single Dash |
| 1989 U.S. Masters' Nationals Lake Merritt San Diego Rowing Club Gold Medal B Cox Four (Author in bow) |
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