USRowing has announced that Eleanor Logan of Boothbay Harbor has been nominated by the United States Rowing Association to the 2008 U.S. Olympic Rowing Team, pending United States Olympic Committee approval to row in the women's eight sweep boat.

Logan was named to the women's eight sweep boat. She completed her freshman year at Stanford University last year where she was named to the All Pac 10 First Team and the Pocock Collegiate Rowing Coaches Association All American First Team. After winning a bronze medal in the Under 23 World Championships in July 2007, she was invited to be an alternate member of the USRowing Senior National Team for the 2007 World Championships in Munich, Germany, in August. She then took off last year from school when she was invited to train for the Olympic Rowing Team at the U.S. Rowing Training sites in Princeton, New Jersey, and Chula Vista, California.

This spring she rowed in a women's pair with Caroline Lind of Greensboro, North Carolina, where the duo won the USRowing National Selection Regatta #2 in Princeton, New Jersey, in April, a bronze medal in the 2008 Rowing World Cup I in Munich, Germany, in early May and a silver medal at the 2008 Rowing World Cup II in Lucerne, Switzerland. Lind and Logan lost to a more experienced pair at the 2008 U.S. Olympic Team Trials in early June.

Her Stanford rowing coach, Yasmin Farooq, will also make the trip to Beijing for the 2008 Games, serving as rowing analyst for NBC's Olympic coverage. A two-time Olympian and World Champion, Farooq will be making her third Olympic appearance in the booth for NBC.

Ellie is the daughter of Jennifer Kierstead of Canaan and William Logan of Boothbay Harbor.

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