From underdog to Olympian: Billy Bender’s journey from worst to first on Dartmouth’s rowing team
Now, Bender, 22, is getting ready to go to the Olympics this summer. He qualified for n the 2024 Paris Summer Olympics in Sarasota, Florida earlier this month with another Dartmouth College student— 2020 grad Oliver Bub. Bub and Bender won the men's pair in the U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Team Trials.





