Conor McGuckin '22 Recruiting Profile

Before I found rowing, I grew up playing club hockey, township and club lacrosse and  assisted with coaching at the Southeast PA Youth Lacrosse Association.  My father is key in helping me develop athletically, as he was a D1 lacrosse player for the United States Military Academy at West Point (USMA '93).  

I graduated a year early from high school, but will not attend four-year college in the fall.  Due to the Pandemic and its restrictions on developing my rowing, I will be taking a gap year to further my skills and have registered at Bucks County Community College as a guest Honors Student for the 2021-2022 academic year.  I am also volunteering with the Rolling Harvest Food Rescue, helping at-risk and food-insecure families in my community with harvesting donations of fresh, locally-grown, mostly organic produce as a member of the Community Quick-Response Glean Team.

My plans for college include pursuing a degree in Biology, Environmental Research with secondary interest in Computer Science.  I have a second home in the Rangeley, Maine region and bought a used scull this past summer from a neighbor on our lake so that I could learn how to scull.  I am enjoying learning to row, as one of my coaches told me after my ErgFest win: I was made for rowing and I finally found my sport.