Victoria Opitz
{{short description|American rower}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=June 2024}}
{{Infobox sportsperson
|name=Victoria Opitz
|image=Forever Badgers Brunch (54155595124) (Vicky Opitz).jpg
|caption=Opitz in 2024
|birth_date={{birth-date and age|June 5, 1988}}
|birth_place = Madison, Wisconsin, U.S.
| height = {{height|ft=5|in=11}}
| country = United States
| sport = Rowing
| collegeteam = Wisconsin Badgers
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{{MedalSport|Women's rowing}}
{{MedalCountry|the {{USA}}}}
{{MedalCompetition|World Championships}}
{{MedalGold|2013 Chungju|W8+}}
{{MedalGold|2014 Amsterdam|W8+}}
{{MedalGold|2015 Aiguebelette|W8+}}
{{MedalGold|2018 Plovdiv|W8+}}
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Victoria "Vicky" Opitz (born June 5, 1988) is an American rower and four-time world champion in the eights. After retaining her world title in 2015, she was officially ranked #5 female rower in the world.[http://www.worldrowing.com/athletes/top-ten-rowers World Rowing, Athlete rankings, Top ten females]
Rowing career
Opitz began rowing in 2006 at the University of Wisconsin. In 2011, she graduated in political science and communication. She lived and trained in Princeton, New Jersey. In 2023 she shifted from coaching lightweight rowing at the University of Wisconsin to the Head Coach position for the Openweight women’s rowing team at the University of Wisconsin.{{Cite web|title=Vicky Opitz {{!}} Lightweight Rowing Coach|url=https://uwbadgers.com/sports/rowing/roster/coaches/vicky-opitz/1896|access-date=January 14, 2022|website=Wisconsin Badgers|language=en}}
Her international debut in the USA eight resulted in victory at the Rowing World Cup in 2013 in Lucerne and was followed by victory at the 2013 World Rowing Championships in Chungju, South Korea.
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External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20190908133554/http://www.usrowing.org/bio/vicky-opitz/ Vicky Opitz] at USRowing
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{{World champions – Women's eight}}
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Category:American female rowers
Category:Sportspeople from Madison, Wisconsin
Category:University of Wisconsin–Madison College of Letters and Science alumni
Category:World Rowing Championships medalists for the United States
Category:21st-century American women
Category:Wisconsin Badgers women's rowers
Category:Wisconsin Badgers rowing coaches
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