VERMONT SPORTS HALL OF FAME

Photo Courtesy Carlie Geer, Nat'l Rowing Assn

Rowing

West Fairlee

Inducted 2025

A 1980 graduate of Dartmouth where she was an outstanding rower on the crew team, Carlie Geer was a two-time Olympian earning a medal in single sculls in 1984. She is the first Vermont female to win a medal in the Summer Games.

A native of Connecticut, her training base growing up through her stint on the national team was on Lake Fairlee, where her family had a vacation home.

Geer was named to the 1980 Olympic Team in double sculls with her older sister Judy but the U.S. did not compete. Although devastated with the news that the U.S. would boycott the Moscow Games, she ramped up her training to be part of the next Olympics. Four years later, she won the single sculls silver medal in Los Angeles. 

In addition to her 1984 Olympic single sculls silver medal, she competed at three World Championships, rowing double sculls in 1981 and quad sculls in 1982-83.

Also the first Dartmouth female to win a Summer Olympics medal, she is a member of Wearers of the Green, essentially the school’s athletics hall of fame, and she also would coach at her alma mater. Geer was inducted in the National Rowing Foundation’s National Rowing Hall of Fame in 2024.

Geer, who resides in South Burlington, recently retired after a long career as a nutritionist at the University of Vermont. She is the first rower inducted in the Vermont Sports Hall of Fame.