Alison Townley

Alison Townley (born September 6, 1965) is an American rower. She competed at the 1988 Summer Olympics and the 1992 Summer Olympics. She graduated from Harvard University. After her rowing career, Townley went on to work for L'Oréal and Chevron,

Biography Townley was born in Minneapolis in 1965. and went on to repeat the feat at the 1990 Goodwill Games in Seattle. She also rowed for Harvard University, and after graduation in 1987 she won the Alumnae Association Award from Radcliffe College.

Townley competed in women's eight event at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, where the US team finished in sixth place. Four years later, at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Townley was part of the US women's quadruple sculls team that finished in fifth place.

After her rowing career, Townley went to work for L'Oréal in New York, before moving to the West Coast to work in marketing for Chevron. In January 2022, she was appointed as one of the six new board members of the National Rowing Foundation.