Katrina Jacks

Katrina Jacks ( in Monmouth, Wales – 16 May 2010 in Lake Titicaca, Peru), was a Welsh rower and chemical engineering graduate.

Biography Jacks was born in Monmouth, the second child and first daughter to General Practitioners Alasdair and Susanna. She had an older brother and a younger sister.

Competitive rowing Jacks won a number of gold medals at the National Schools Championships, and represented Great Britain at under-16 level for two consecutive years.

Death Due to start a job with an engineering consultancy company in summer 2010, Jacks took a gap year in South America from 2009 to improve her Spanish. First volunteering at an orphanage in Ecuador, she then trekked along the Inca Trail to Machu Picchu, on 16 May 2010. Her body was returned to Wales for burial in late May 2010.