2017 Heavyweight Rowing Roster
Nick Mead
- Weight:
- null
- Class:
- Senior
- Hometown:
- Strafford, Pa.
- High School:
- Episcopal Academy
At Princeton — 2017: team captain … won bronze in the 1V at Eastern Sprints … helped the 1V return to the IRA Championships grand final, where it topped California and finished fourth … earned IRA All-Academic honors … helped the 1V retain the Navy-Princeton Rowing Cup, the Childs Cup, and the Content Cup. 2016: rowed in the 6 seat and helped the varsity eight win a bronze medal at the IRA Championships; Princeton defeated seven-time IRA champion Washington for the medal … helped Princeton win silver at Eastern Sprints and led the Tigers to a repeat of the Rowe Cup (team points) title … member of the IRA All-Academic Team … qualified for the Team USA M8+ at the U-23 World Championships … helped Princeton retain the Navy-Princeton Rowing Cup, Childs Cup, Compton Cup, and Compton Cup; victory over Harvard was only Princeton's second road win in the Compton Cup since 1957. 2015: rowed in the 6 seat to help the Princeton V8 win bronze at the IRA Championships; it was Princeton’s first IRA V8 medal since 2006 … won bronze at the Eastern Sprints and helped Princeton win the Rowe Cup (team points title) for first time since 2005 … rowed in the Ladies Plate Challenge competition at the Royal Henley Regatta … helped Princeton reclaim the Compton Cup over Harvard for the first time since 2006 … won the Navy-Princeton Rowing Cup, the Childs Cup and the Content Cup as well … earned Academic All-IRA honors. 2014: stroked the 2V to a silver medal at the IRA National Championships; it was the best 2V finish at the IRAs since 2000 … helped the 2V win silver at the Eastern Sprints … boat went 8-2 during the year and won its last four races.
Before Princeton — competed with the men’s US 8+ at the 2013 Junior World Championships … won the 2013 Scholastic Rowing Association of America title in the 4+ … 2013 team captain at Episcopal Academy … recipient of the Mind Body Spirit Prize in 2012 and 2013 … earned 2013 Oar Award … earned a varsity letter in football … class vice president … recipient of the Class of 1877 Award (Scholarship, Character and Athletics).
Personal — born March 12, 1995 … son of Philip and Carolyn Mead … has an older brother Loren … father rowed at Princeton in the Class of 1981 … mother and brother both rowed for Penn.
