Rutgers Athletics Hall of Fame
Klepacki was captain and team MVP of the crew team during his senior year as well as a finalist for the Coursen Award, given annually to Rutgers University's top male student-athlete. Klepacki first made the United States National Rowing team in 1989 and was a three-time Olympian (1992, 1996, 2000) finishing fourth in the eight-oared event at the 1992 Olympics in Barcelona, Spain. He won his first World Championship in 1994, stroking the U.S. Eight to a Gold Medal. That same year, he was named the 1994 US Rowing Male Athlete of the Year and also was a semifinalist for the James E. Sullivan Award, given to the nation's outstanding amateur athlete. He has won two additional World Championships in 1998 and 1999 as well as two bronze medals in 1993 and 1995. He won Gold and Bronze Medals at the 1994 Goodwill Games in St. Petersburg, Russia and was a two time champion at the 1995 Pan American Games in Mar Del Plata, Argentina.
