Anne Warner (rower)

Anne Warner

Personal information
Full name	Anne Elizabeth Taubes Warner
Born	August 24, 1954 (age 62) Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
Medal record Women's rowing Representing  United States Olympic Games 1976 Montreal Eights

Anne Elizabeth Taubes Warner (born August 24, 1954) is a lawyer and a rower who competed in the 1976 Summer Olympics for the United States. She was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and grew up in Five Fields, Lexington, Massachusetts.

In 1976 she was a member of the American eight-oared crew which won the bronze medal, and was also a member of four other national teams, including the '75 eight which won the silver in Nottingham, England, and the 1980 boycotted Olympic team. Warner also coached the lightweight double of Chris Ernst and C.B. Sands which won the gold at the World Championships in 1986.

Warner is a graduate of Yale University in Russian studies, conducted the Yale Slavic Chorus and the Cambridge Slavic Chorus, and went to Bulgaria for a year to collect folk musicfrom the mountain villages on a fellowship from Yale. While at Yale, she and Chris Ernst led the protest of the women's crew for equal facilities under Title IX. After Yale and Bulgaria, she returned to Cambridge, where she attended Harvard Law School and married Cliff Taubes, a Harvard mathematician.^[1] from whom she later became divorced. She and Taubes had two children, Ali and Hannibal Taubes. She currently lives in Lincoln, MA with her partner Daniel Paul, and is the General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer at Pegasystems, Inc., a business process management software company in Cambridge, MA.

References

1. Daniel J. Boyne, The Red Rose Crew: A True Story of Women, Winning, and the Water, 2005, ISBN 1592287581 p. 204.

External links

• "Anne Warner". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.