Daphne Martschenko (born November 6, 1992 in London)[1] is an American student athlete and academic.
Early life and education
editMartschenko was born in London, to Alex, a U.S. foreign service officer of Ukrainian heritage, and Oluwatoyin ("Toyin"), originally from Nigeria. She has three sisters and lived in Kyrgyzstan, Russia, and Ukraine while young.[2][3] She attended Oakton High School in Vienna, Virginia, where she was a member the crew team her freshman year.[4]
She later attended Stanford University in Stanford, California, where she majored in Slavic languages and anthropology.[4][5] In 2014, she enrolled at the University of Cambridge, where she obtained a PhD, focused on the impact of behavioral genetics on the education system.[6]
Rowing career
editWhile at Stanford, she earned two gold medals, one in the NCAA Division I Rowing Championship.[2]
She represented the United States at two World Rowing U23 Championships.[1]
While at the University of Cambridge, she competed in the Oxford-Cambridge Boat Race and was elected president of the Cambridge University Women's Boat Club for the 2018 boat race campaign.[5] She is currently an assistant professor at the Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics.[7]
References
edit- ^ a b "Daphne Martschenko profile", Official website, World Rowing, retrieved May 17, 2018
- ^ a b 2010-11 Women's Rowing Roster: Daphne Martschenko, Stanford Athletics, retrieved May 18, 2018
- ^ Richard Winton (March 24, 2016), Boat Races 2016: Daphne Martschenko has travelled a long way to reach Cambridge, BBC
- ^ a b Molly Bruggeman (March 23, 2018), "Martschenko Leads Cambridge Women into Boat Race", Official website, USRowing, archived from the original on May 18, 2018, retrieved May 18, 2018
- ^ a b James Lee (March 22, 2018), "Blondie 2018", Official website, Cambridge University Women's Boat Club, archived from the original on May 18, 2018, retrieved May 17, 2018
- ^ "Daphne Martschenko - Behavioural genetics and intelligence: its impact on the US education system", Gates Cambridge Scholarships official website, Gates Foundation, June 20, 2016, archived from the original on May 18, 2018, retrieved May 17, 2018
- ^ "Daphne O. Martschenko's Profile | Stanford Profiles". profiles.stanford.edu. Retrieved January 1, 2023.
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