Nunn Of That Negative Stuff For Rowing’s Olympian’s Son By Jo MurrayOn The Water Columnist Jan 18, 2019 Feb. 24 is the Academy Awards. I think about the children of famous people and major award winners around this time. How is it as the offspring of an Academy Award winner? What about an Olympic medal winner? Read More Here Jack Nunn is the son of John Nunn, who won the bronze Olympic medal in 1968 with his partner Bill Maher in the double sculls rowing event. I sat down with Jack this week to ask him if he felt like he grew up in his dad’s shadow. Jack started rowing in1996 for Long Beach Juniors and made the 1997 Junior National Team Selection Camp. He went on to star for four years at UC Berkeley with a full scholarship, winning four Pac-10 championships and three IRA Division I National Championships. He has clearly always been an elite athlete, on the top of his sport. At one point, his dad told him, “You’ve done enough.” But it ate at [...]