Mike Staines

Mike Staines had his first big year in 1971 when he rowed in the Pan American Games and helped his Cornell eight to a victory at the IRA Regatta. He then competed in the 1972 Olympics, in the pairs with, but he and partner Luther Jones finished only eleventh. At the 1976 Olympics he and Calvin Coffey beat all but the East German pair to win the silver medal. Staines’ later wife, the former Laura Terdoslavich, was a member of the women’s rowing team at the 1976 Olympics – in the pairs without, but they would later divorce.