Beery won a gold medal in Men's Eights at the 2004 Summer Olympics, as a member of the American team.

Beery is a member of the New York Athletic Club's Hall of Fame.

Prior to his start in rowing at the University of Tennessee Chattanooga, Beery played collegiate basketball.

After proposing via text message, he married American Olympic rower Jennifer Goldsack on January 17, 2009 - they first met at the US Rowing Training Center in Princeton, but they first became properly acquainted at the 2007 world championships in Munich.

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