Jessica Thoennes, Tokyo Olympics 2021 rowing-- Highlands Farm, Colorado

Check out this post by Joe Nguyen from The Denver Post discussing several important points this week. Joe Nguyen recently posted the article and I thought it was a great post for sharing on this website.

Jessica Thoennes, Highlands Ranch

Specialty: Women’s 8

Age: 25

Related Articles

Tokyo Olympics: Here are the Colorado athletes competing in the summer Games Yul Moldauer, Tokyo Olympics 2021 gymnastics — Arvada, Colorado Mason Finley, Tokyo Olympics 2021 discus — Chaffee County, Colorado Woody Kincaid, Tokyo Olympics 2021 track and field — Littleton, Colorado Anastasjia Zolotic, Tokyo Olympics 2021 taekwondo — Colorado Springs, Colorado

The Mountain Vista High School graduate played basketball and volleyball as a prep athlete, but didn’t discover the sport of rowing until heading to the University of Washington. “When I first got out there, I had never touched an oar,” she told the Highlands Ranch Herald. But she quickly took to the sport, helping the Huskies claim the 2017 NCAA championship and winning the gold medal in the second varsity eight event in the 2018 NCAA championship.

Competing: July 25, 28 and 30

Let’s Talk Olympics

Do you love watching the Olympics? Come talk about the Games with us on our exclusive Facebook group.