[1] Beijing was the first time the United States Olympic Team has won the gold in the Women's 8+ event in the full 2000m race.

In 2009 Cafaro won gold medals both in the Women's 2- and 8+ events at the 2009 World Rowing Championships in Poznan, Poland.

[citation needed] After retiring from rowing in 2012, Cafaro became VP of Operations for 3Fu3l, a startup sports supplement company.

She began as a Clinical Coordinator on a research project on fear, anxiety and therapeutic interventions at the Huberman Lab in the Stanford School of Medicine Dept.

Currently, Cafaro is a doctoral student in clinical psychology at The Wright Institute in Berkeley, CA specializing in neuropsychology.