MADISON, Wis. – Former Wisconsin rower Grace Latz has been named to the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee Collegiate Advisory Council, the Committee announced last week. Her term is set to begin in the fall. 

The 12-member council is comprised of collegiate administrators and Team USA athletes who advocate for broad-based Olympic and Paralympic sport programming on campus and represent institutions that have historically contributed to Team USA's success at the Olympic and Paralympic Games.

Latz is an Olympian, USRowing board member, chair of the USRowing Athlete Council and Team USA Athletes' Commission alternate, and she will be joining the council as an Olympic athlete representative. 

The Jackson, Michigan, native rowed at Wisconsin from 2006 to 2010 and was part of the first Big Ten championship in rowing for the Badgers. She rowed for Team USA at the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, helping the quadruple sculls crew to a fifth-place finish and was involved in the 2024 Paris Olympics as an artist-in-residence, creating an Olympic quilt out of recycled athletics materials. 

Latz is a four-time U.S. Senior National Team member (2014-17), most recently helping the women's eight to a fourth-place finish at the 2017 event after winning gold in women's four in 2015 and bronze in the women's quadruple sculls in 2014. 

Outside of her on-the-water experience, Latz is also a sports broadcaster and commentator for rowing events on NBC Sports, ESPN+, the Big Ten Network and USRowing.