With the Olympics coming this month, I was glad to find an Olympic Medalist from Dakota County, Nebraska. Lisa Rohde earned a silver medal in rowing in the 1984, Los Angeles Olympics.
Lisa was born in Wakefield, Nebraska in 1955. She was raised in rural Hubbard and attended Emerson-Hubbard school. She was a three sport athlete playing basketball, volleyball, and rowing for the University of Nebraska. This was during early days of Title 9, when the female athletes played their games in the physical education facility. She finished her undergraduate education at the University Pennsylvania, in Philadelphia.
She rowed in the eights for the United States in 1977 in the World Games. For those of us that who are not rowing experts, rowing in the eights is, eight in a racing shell that seats eight rowers in a line facing the stern of the boat, with four on each side. Then in 1981, she rowed the quad skulls. That is a four-person team in a shell. It was with this team that she won her silver medal for the United States.
After her career as an athlete, she attended medical school at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, graduating in 1992. Lisa serves as physician in internal medicine at Presbyterian Hospital in Charlotte, North Carolina. She has been with this hospital for over 30 years.
This information was collected and confirmed by the following resources.
900 FAMOUS NEBRASKANS: Nationally Distinguished Nebraskans: A Brief BioBibliography of 900 Individuals; Copyright © 2015 by E. A. Kral , p. 251.
Olympedia https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/40503
Olympics.com https://olympics.com/en/athletes/lisa-diane-rohde