John Albert Mathews

He was a member of the 1975 World Championship Team to Nottingham, England, where he placed fifth in the coxed pair.

His Varsity boat won the Worcester City Championships in 1973 and 1974 [5] on Lake Quinsigamond.

Joining Vesper Boat Club in 1974, Mathews won U.S. National Championships in the coxed four in 1975 and the coxed pair in 1975 and 1976, as well as winning in the coxed four at the Canadian Henley Royal Regatta in 1974[6][7] He won Head of the Charles Boston, MA first place medals on the same day in the elite eight (Boston Globe Trophy) and elite four with coxswain (Schaefer Trophy) in 1975 and repeating the wins again in 1976 for Vesper Boat Club, Philadelphia, under coach Dietrich Rose.

[9] Later that fall, they won a gold medal in the coxed pair event at the 1975 Pan American Games at Mexico City.

As a member of Yankee Rowing Club and in 2007 won the Blackburn Challenge, Gloucester, MA, rowing in the Touring Class Single, Sliding Seat in a 20+ mile open ocean race circumnavigating Cape Ann.