2022 Heavyweight Rowing Roster
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Sam Kleiner
- Weight:
- null
- Class:
- Freshman
- Hometown:
- Westport, Conn.
- High School:
- Staples
Bio
Awards:
Art Lane '34 Award Finalist (2024-25)
IRA 4+ Gold Medal (2022)
Eastern Sprints 3V Gold Medal (2024)
IRA 3V Silver Medal (2024)
IRA All-Academic Team (2023)
IRCA Scholar Athlete (2024, 2025)
2025: Helped the 4V win the Petite Final at Eastern Sprints ... led the 4V to a defeat Brown … part of the 2V that took down La Salle, Temple and Georgetown
2024: Rowed on the 3V that defeated Drexel, Georgetown, Temple, Navy, Cornell, Brown during the regular season … Helped the 3V to gold at Eastern Sprints, leading to the Tigers winning the Rowe Cup for the first time since 2016 … Paced the 3V to silver at the IRA National Championships, the boat’s first medal since 2016, pushing the Tigers to second in the Ten Eyck standings, the team’s highest mark since 2016 ... Rowed at Henley Royal Regatta.
2023: On the 3V that defeated Temple, Drexel, Penn, Cornell … Saw action on the 4V that beat Navy … Helped the 3V win the Petite Final at the IRA Championships.
2022: Rowed at 3V that beat Georgetown, Drexel, Temple and Navy … Also saw time at 4V that was fifth at Easterns … On the 4+ that won gold at the IRA National Championships
Before Princeton:
Staples: First Honors academic honors.
National: Finished 13th in the eight at the 2021 USRowing Youth National Regatta ... Finished second in the eight at the 2021 USRowing Northeast Youth Championships ... Finished 15th in the youth eight at the 2020 Head of the Charles... Finished seventh in the four with coxswain at the 2019 USRowing Youth National Championships ... Won the four with coxswain at the 2019 USRowing Northeast Youth Championships.
Personal: Son of Jennifer Kleiner … Has two sisters, Abigail and Meghan
Art Lane '34 Award Finalist (2024-25)
IRA 4+ Gold Medal (2022)
Eastern Sprints 3V Gold Medal (2024)
IRA 3V Silver Medal (2024)
IRA All-Academic Team (2023)
IRCA Scholar Athlete (2024, 2025)
2025: Helped the 4V win the Petite Final at Eastern Sprints ... led the 4V to a defeat Brown … part of the 2V that took down La Salle, Temple and Georgetown
2024: Rowed on the 3V that defeated Drexel, Georgetown, Temple, Navy, Cornell, Brown during the regular season … Helped the 3V to gold at Eastern Sprints, leading to the Tigers winning the Rowe Cup for the first time since 2016 … Paced the 3V to silver at the IRA National Championships, the boat’s first medal since 2016, pushing the Tigers to second in the Ten Eyck standings, the team’s highest mark since 2016 ... Rowed at Henley Royal Regatta.
2023: On the 3V that defeated Temple, Drexel, Penn, Cornell … Saw action on the 4V that beat Navy … Helped the 3V win the Petite Final at the IRA Championships.
2022: Rowed at 3V that beat Georgetown, Drexel, Temple and Navy … Also saw time at 4V that was fifth at Easterns … On the 4+ that won gold at the IRA National Championships
Before Princeton:
Staples: First Honors academic honors.
National: Finished 13th in the eight at the 2021 USRowing Youth National Regatta ... Finished second in the eight at the 2021 USRowing Northeast Youth Championships ... Finished 15th in the youth eight at the 2020 Head of the Charles... Finished seventh in the four with coxswain at the 2019 USRowing Youth National Championships ... Won the four with coxswain at the 2019 USRowing Northeast Youth Championships.
Personal: Son of Jennifer Kleiner … Has two sisters, Abigail and Meghan
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