CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – Former Harvard men's heavyweight rower Mike DiSanto '12 is set to compete at the second U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Team Trials – Rowing, which is set to get underway on Monday, April 12, at Mercer Lake in New Jersey.
 
A native of Boston, DiSanto will team with Tom Peszek in the men's pair and will race uncontested in order to solidify their right to compete at the Final Olympic Qualification Regatta in May. The duo comes into the Trials as highly decorated athletes, with DiSanto earning a spot on the national team six times, while placing fourth in the eight at the Rio 2016 Olympics, and Peszek a 10-time national team member having rowed at the London 2012 Olympics.
 
Racing will open with time trials on Monday. Heats will take place on Tuesday, with repechages taking place on Wednesday. Thursday will feature semifinals in the Olympic events and finals in the Paralympic events, with finals in the Olympic events taking place on Friday. Racing is scheduled to start at 8 a.m. ET each day.
 
Semifinals and finals will be streamed live on NBCSports.com and the NBC Sports app.
 
Before he became regular on the Olympic scene, DiSanto was a standout rower at Harvard, collecting three varsity letters from 2010-12. During that three-year span, DiSanto was a three-time all-Ivy League selection, earning first-team accolades in 2010 and 2011, and helping the Crimson defeat Yale in the annual Harvard-Yale Regatta.