Cornell University Athletics

A three-year letterman and commodore of the heavyweight crew as a senior, he was the recipient of the team's most outstanding oarsman award in 1991, when he rowed in the No. 6 seat of the varsity eight that placed third at the Intercollegiate Rowing Association Championships. He was a member of the 11th-place open men's coxless four boat at the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta, and he was a spare for the men's Olympic rowing team at the 2000 Summer Games in Australia. He won a gold medal at the 1999 FISA World Rowing Championships as a member of the winning men's coxed four. In 1995, he won a gold and silver medal at the Pan American Games in Argentina and rowed in the world championships in Finland. He also rowed in the world championships in 1991 at Austria, in 1993 in the Czech Republic, where he won a bronze medal, and in 1994 at Indianapolis. He was a U.S. national champion in '91 and '93 and won a gold medal at the '87 junior world championships in Germany. A Kenmore, N.Y., native, Murray graduated from St. Joseph's Collegiate Institute in Buffalo and served as Cornell's freshman heavyweight crew coach in 1998 and '99. He lives in Watertown, Mass.