Duvall Hecht
Duvall Young Hecht is an American competition rower and Olympic champion.Biography
Hecht was born in Los Angeles, California. He received a gold medal in the pair without coxswain at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne.
Hecht founded Books on Tape, Inc. in 1975. He later sold the company to Random House. Before that, he obtained a master's degree in Journalism from Stanford University and was a Marine pilot. After receiving his master's degree, Hecht went on to teach English at Menlo College in Atherton, California. While at Menlo, Hecht established Menlo's first rowing club where he was head coach until he moved to Southern California.
Hecht established the rowing team at University of California, Irvine in 1965. Later he went on to coach the rowing team of UCLA before coming back to Irvine in the 1990s. Hecht once again returned as the head coach of the men's varsity rowing program at UCI in the fall of 2008.
