Chiara Dell’Orfanello
Nationality: USA/ITA Role: Cox
Current Course
Theology, Philosophy of Religion and Religion
Status
Undergraduate
College
Queens' College
University
Cambridge
Squad
About Chiara Dell’Orfanello
Where did you learn to row and who was your first coach?
Queens' College Boat Club, Ed Parkhouse.
What inspires you about sport?
The discipline and team spirit.
Explain your earliest memory of The Boat Race
My schoolboy rower friend, who encouraged me to try rowing in college, told me he hoped to race it one day and we watched a replay of an old race on YouTube.
Do you relish in hours in the gym and miles in the dark, or do you live for race days?
Race days all the way. The gym is for relaxing, there is nothing like a good race!
What's the secret to managing elite-level sport with studying at one of the top universities in the world?
Organisation.
