PBC Athlete Bio – Allix Wilde

Allix Wilde
2012 Olympic Hopeful

Allix Wilde at Yale in 2010

Born: 3/26/1988
Hometown: Potomac, MD
Club Affiliation: Potomac Boat Club
College: Yale University (2010)
Event: Women’s Open Weight Rowing (Sculling)
Experience: 9 years

Allix online

• Allix on Twitter
• Allix on Youtube (Henley Women’s Regatta in 3-seat of the Yale crew in 2009)

About Allix
Allix is the oldest child of Tom and Stephanie Wilde. She has a younger sister, Emily. She grew up playing soccer, ice hockey, and golf. At Yale she earned a B.A. in English. She plans to continue her career in health advocacy, specifically advocating for women’s health and reproductive rights. She eventually hopes to earn a law degree to help best pursue this dream.

Allix started her rowing career during her freshman year of high school. Approached by two girls on the team, they persuaded her to join by saying, “Hey, you’re pretty tall, you should row.”  As an uncoordinated and awkward fourteen year old, who considered the idea of suffering another spring on the softball team a terrifying prospect, she eagerly agreed to join the rowing team.  Four years later, she was recruited to row for Yale, despite modest beginnings at a small program that saw little success.

At Yale, Allix learned what it meant to race to win, to both strive to defeat and support her teammates in the pursuit of team speed, and that how you lived your days is how you live your life. She lost only three regular season races in four years. She became a part of a team of strong, inspiring, and tough women; all a product of a program dedicated to excellence and steeped in tradition. As a recent college graduate, she decided she was unable to abandon that espirit de corps, that unrelenting pursuit of perfection, and decided to continue rowing at the elite level. She is now focusing on successfully transitioning from the barbaric discipline of sweep rowing to the more delicate and intensely difficult art of sculling.

Allix began her elite rowing career at Potomac Boat Club, and now hopes to continue in the footsteps of the national team members that have come before her; she hopes to gain the same high levels of success that the club is well known for.

National and Collegiate Results
1st place – NCAA Champion in the Second Varsity, 2009
6th place – NCAAs, Third Varsity Four, 2008
3rd place – EAWRC Sprints, Second Varsity 2010
2nd place – EAWRC Sprints, Second Varsity 2009
1st place – EAWRC Sprints, Third Varsity Four, 2008
3rd place – EAWRC Sprints, Novice Eight 2007

International Results
4th place – Senior Women’s 4x – 2010 Royal Canadian Henley
4th place – Champ Women’s 8+ – 2007 Royal Canadian Henley