Caroline Kulka

November 10, 2025: The Duke Blue Devils Rowing Studio

Photo by: Nat LeDonne / Duke Athletics

November 10, 2025: The Duke Blue Devils Rowing Headshots

Height:
5-9
Class:
Freshman
Hometown:
Wellesley, Mass.
High School:
Beaver Country Day

Prior to Duke: Attended Beaver Country Day School in Chestnut Hill, Mass. … competed with Community Rowing Inc. (CRI), coached by Skye Elliot … placed eighth at the 2025 US Rowing Youth National Championships in Women's Youth 8+ (3 seat) … finished 14th overall at the 2024 Head of the Charles Regatta in Women's Youth 8+ (5 seat) … claimed the Geoffrey Barron Taylor Memorial Trophy at the Canadian Henley Regatta in the Under 23 8+ race … earned sixth place at the US Rowing Youth National Championships in Women's Youth 8+ (5 seat) in 2024 … helped her Women’s Youth 8+ crew to a 15th-place finish at the 2023 Head of the Charles Regatta … a multi-sport athlete, participating in competitive gymnastics for nine years, diving for three years and cross country and swimming for one season … attended the 2022 AAU Diving National Championship … in the classroom, she achieved the Senior Class Faculty Award (2024-2025), a 2025 Massachusetts Scholastic Writing Award Silver Key recipient, United States Rowing Class of 2025 Scholastic Honor Roll and the Junior Class English Department Award (2023-2024) … she was also part of the High Honor Roll all four years.

Personal: Daughter of Sarah and Tim Kulka … has one sister, Lucy … mother, Sarah, played lacrosse at Princeton (1985-89) and was named captain in 1989 … she graduated from Duke’s Fuqua School of Business in 2001 … father, Tim, played baseball at the University of Maine (1988-89) and rowed at Northeastern (1991-93) … her aunt, Tasha Norman, earned her degree from Duke’s School of Medicine in 2003 … has a golden retriever named Tucker … enjoys ceramics, hiking and baking outside of rowing.