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Nevin Harrison
| Hometown | Seattle, Washington |
| Events | Sprint canoe |
| Years On Team | 5 (since 2018) |
| Club | San Diego Canoe and Kayak |
| Born | 06/02/2002 |
| Schools/Work | San Diego State '25 |
| Hobbies | Hiking, surfing, baking, spending time at the beach, traveling |
“Take life day by day and be grateful for the little things. Don’t get caught up on what you can’t control. Accept it and make the best of it.”
6 Things You Didn't Know about Nevin Harrison
- Nevin plans to major in kinesiology (athletic training) at San Diego State (SDS). Throughout her time at SDS, she plans to train at Mission Bay and Chula Vista.
- She has been speaking Spanish fluently since age five.
- Nevin lived in Kobe, Japan, for six months when she was eight.
- Nevin's father was a theater and opera director in Manhattan, New York, and then became a professor. Her mother was an actress and she now owns a private speech and language pathology clinic in Seattle, Washington.
- Nevin's older brother (by a year and a half) is an EMT that is planning to attend paramedic training school in the fall of 2021.
- Nevin was a 100 meter and 200 meter sprinter in middle school, but got a hip injury during her freshman year of high school. After this incident, she began canoeing more seriously.
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Olympic Games
2021: Olympic Champion Tokyo 2020 -
World Championships
2019 World Championships: C-1 200m, world champion -
U.S. Team Trials
2021: Won U.S. team trials in the C-1 200m, will represent the U.S. in Tokyo -
World Cups
2020 Szeged World Cup: C-1 200m, gold medalist -
Other Results
2019 Pan American Games: C-1 200m, gold medalist