Ted Nash (rower)

He was born in Melrose, Massachusetts. Nash served as a pilot and first lieutenant in the Army Aviation division, teaching aviation and aerobatics. He was a member of the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve. While in the military, he was also an anti-guerrilla warfare instructor, an officer candidate school tactical officer for the Army and a member of the elite Green Beret, and special forces units for the Army. He was recalled four times on special friendly projects across the world. Nash has served as both freshman and varsity coach for Penn and been a longtime supporter and icon of Penn AC. ==Rowing career==

Nash won a gold medal in coxless fours at the 1960 Summer Olympics and a bronze for the same event at the 1964 Olympics. ==Coaching career==

Nash coached at the University of Pennsylvania, first as freshman coach from 1965, then as head coach from 1969 to 1983. ==Personal life and sexual assault allegations==

Nash died at the age of 88 on July 3, 2021, in Medford, New Jersey. In 2023, the documentary filmmaker Jennifer Fox said that Nash had sexually abused her when she was 13 and he was 40. Nash was Fox's running instructor in 1973 when she was at horseback riding summer camp. Nash's first wife Aldina Nash-Hampe described the accusation as a "surprise", but conceded that Nash "seemed to have affairs with a lot of women" and in 1972 she filed for a divorce after she found letters from Nash to other women. ==References==