SECHSER Michelle

General
MISSING OUT IN 2016
She was a member of the US lightweight double that qualified for the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro but she missed out in selection. She was kept on as an unofficial spare for the boat that travelled to the 2016 Games. "I was grateful they chose to keep us a three-person team. Our plan was to keep training together in Princeton, and they would go off to Rio, and I would go to the non-Olympic worlds trials and race the single. But once they flew off to Rio, and the coach was gone, and the training partners were gone, that was when it finally hit me how devastated I was. They were all gone, and I was on Lake Carnegie by myself. There was such pomp and circumstance and ticker-tape-like celebration for everyone going off to Rio, and the next few mornings it was just me out there. It hit me like a train, and I realised I did not feel emotionally invested in non-Olympic worlds. I didn't feel any motivation to go to the race or trials, so I didn't." (rowingnews.com, 10 May 2021)

FURTHER EDUCATION
She has completed a master's degree in business administration at the University of Tulsa in the United States of America. (LinkedIn profile, 31 May 2021)

OCCUPATION
In January 2021 she started working as director of operations at the Digital Medicine Society. She was chief of staff at the organisation between 2019 and January 2021f. (LinkedIn profile, 31 May 2021)