The University of Texas at Austin Athletics
Knifton, Mazzio-Manson named to USRowing Olympic Team
03.26.2024 | Rowing
Texas Exes Kate Knifton and Daisy Mazzio-Manson will compete for Team USA at the 2024 Paris Olympics.
PRINCETON, N.J. – Former Longhorn rowers Kate Knifton and Daisy Mazzio-Manson will represent the United States at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games this summer, USRowing organization announced on Monday. Knifton and Mazzio-Manson were among 13 athletes who will make up the women's eight and four in Paris.
Rowing at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games will take place July 27-August 4. The complete Olympic team will be named by June 7, pending USOPC approval.
The duo will become the second and third Longhorns to compete in Rowing at the Olympic Games, joining Texas Athletics Hall of Honor member and current assistant coach Gia Doonan, who represented Team USA at the Tokyo Olympics in 2021.
Knifton competed for USRowing at the 2022 World Rowing U23 Championships, while Mazzio-Manson raced for the United States at the 2023 World Rowing Championships.
Knifton (2019-23), the 2023 Big 12 Rower of the Year and Rowing Scholar-Athlete of the Year, rowed at stroke-seat on the Texas I Eight each of the last three seasons, winning two NCAA team championships and a pair of First Eight national crowns in 2021 and 2022. All told, she helped the Longhorns to four top-four national showings, including a runner-up finish in 2019 and a fourth-place result last year. The USRowing 2022 Co-Female Athlete of the Year, she won gold with Team USA last summer in the Women's Four (BW4-) at the World Rowing Under 23 Championships. The Austin native was a three-time All-American, three-time All-Big 12 Team selection and a 2022-23 first-team Academic All-American.
Mazzio-Manson (2020-21) was a member of Texas' first-ever national championship team in 2021, rowing at four-seat in the I Eight's come-from-behind victory in the grand final. A graduate transfer in 2021, she earned All-Big 12 Team honors that year after helping UT win a sixth consecutive conference crown.
