Peter Davis Mallory comes from a New England nautical family. His 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 Eight at the University of Pennsylvania, where he majored in art history. He was a "mud angel" in Florence, Italy in the aftermath of the catastrophic flood of 1966, and he rowed daily out of Società Canottieri Firenze while he worked there restoring art. He gets by in four languages. During his rowing career, he has represented Penn, 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 lightweight single sculler on the American composite lightweight squad that toured Europe prior to the Munich Olympics. 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. He has been a U.S. National Coach five times, and several of the athletes he coached have gone on to World and Olympic medals. In 1989, Mallory's Optimal Force Application in Rowing, the Analysis of Force Graphs and Force Graph Biofeedback was presented and published at the 18th FISA Coaches' Conference. As well as coaching, he spent 25 years working as a CPA. He is now semi-retired. 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 the row2k website. His current book project, a detailed evolutionary history of world rowing technique, has the working title "The Sport of Rowing, A Comprehensive History." He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Friends of Rowing History. His wife of seven years, Susan, rowed for ZLAC while in high school during the 1970s. Today she is the President of Northern Trust Bank for Southern California and Nevada. The Mallorys live in Los Angeles, though they maintain close ties to San Diego. They are both stewards of the San Diego Crew Classic and members of San Diego Rowing Club. Peter's stepdaughter, Emily Ten Eyck, rowed for ZLAC and for Northeastern University. Peter's son, Philip, won a Southwest Regional Rowing Championship for San Diego Rowing Club as a junior and briefly coached at his alma mater, Boston University. An ensign in the U.S. Navy, Philip is now coaching in the Granby High School crew program in Norfolk, Virginia. After several years spent researching his latest book, Mallory has resumed serious training with the intention of rowing again competitively in 2011. |
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| 1971 U.S. Nationals Hunter Island Lagoon 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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| Author with Steve Redgrave at the 2008 Henley Royal Regatta |
| 50th Reunion of the 1956 Yale Olympic Champion 8 in 2006: Es Esselstyn, Author, Bob Morey, Tom Charlton |