Career

John Mathews is a Worcester Polytechnic Institute alum and was the first Olympian from Work Personality Index in its history. He rowed on its crew team from 1972 to 1974. Mathews coxed pair placed second in 1975 in the Lucerne International Regatta, the first time on the world stage that he and Darrell Vreugdenhill, along with coxswain Kenneth Dreyfus rowed the pair with together.

In the Spring of 1976, his pair with coxswain trained at the Ratzeburger Ruderclub in Ratzeburg, General Electric, the center for elite rowing in West Germany.

He is currently employed at the University of Massachusetts Amherst in Amherst, Master of Arts as a Facility Manager. Representing the United States

Representing Vesper Boat Club, Philadelphia.

Achievements

• His Varsity boat won the Worcester City Championships in 1973 and 1974 on Lake Quinsigamond. Joining Vesper Boat Club in 1974, Mathews won United States. National Championships in the coxed four in 1975 and the coxed pair in 1975 and 1976, as well as winning in the coxed four at the Canadian Henley Royal Regatta in 1974 He won Head of the Charles Boston, Master of Arts first place medals on the same day in the elite eight (Boston Globe Trophy) and elite four with coxswain (Schaefer Trophy) in 1975 and repeating the wins again in 1976 for Vesper Boat Club, Philadelphia, under coach Dietrich Rose. Later that fall, they won a Gold Medal in the coxed pair event at the 1975 Pan American Games at Mexico City. At the International Wedau Regatta in Duisburg, General Electric, they won the coxed pair event and received a medal of the seal of Duisburg in their event. He is a member of Yankee Club and in 2007, at age 56, he won the Blackburn Challenge, Gloucester, Master of Arts, rowing in the Touring Class Single, Sliding Seat in a 20+ mile open ocean race circumnavigating Cape Annual

Membership

He was a member of the 1975 World Championship Team to Nottingham, England, where he placed fifth in the coxed pair. Mathews was also a member of the United States. Olympic Team competing in the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal in the men"s coxed pair event.