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Adam Kosmicki

Place/DOB: 09/05/1984, USA

Home Town: Marblehead, MA, USA

Living: Oxford

College: Oriel

Nationality: American

Year Enrolled: 2006

Course: Masters in Financial Economics

Course Length: 1 years

School: Said Business School

Previous Uni/Col: Harvard Uni

Height: 6’5”/1.95m

Weight: 15st 2lb/96kg

Adam is studying for a one-year Masters in Financial Economics at Oxford. He started rowing in his freshman year at high school in 1999. Already has two victories under his belt in Harvard colours in the Harvard-Yale Race, winning in 2005 and 2006, after succeeding Kip McDaniel - (Cambridge’s 2006 stroke) as stroke. He also stroked the Harvard eight to victory at the 2005 EARC/US National Championships. Had the number five seat in the US eight that won a bronze medal at the 2002 World Junior Championships in Lithuania. Finished sixth in the B final in the number three seat for the US quadruple sculls at the 2005 World Under-23 Championships in Amsterdam. A good all-round sportsman, Adam was a club football, basketball and baseball player and won a couple of US national Viper class sailing titles before suffering a knee injury competing in his high school skiing team. He took up rowing after that accident on the advice of his English teacher and has never looked back.