Lin rowed for the Varsity Blues from 2022 to 2024, competing at the Canadian University Rowing Championships in Victoria and racing the Head of the Trent, billed as North America's largest single-day head-race regatta, against more than 1,400 athletes.
Her research on ischemic preconditioning — brief interruptions to blood flow meant to prime muscles — won a Tanenbaum Institute for Science in Sport research accelerator grant. She graduated with her master's in June and was selected as a 2SLGBTQIA+ Community Impact Honouree at the Faculty of Kinesiology & Physical Education.
She now works as a research assistant under professor Ira Jacobs in the Human Physiology Lab, lead strength coach for the Varsity Blues women's lacrosse team, a coach at the Canadian Sport Institute Ontario, and a competitive weightlifter who competed at the Ontario Senior Weightlifting Championship in November 2025. “I was also lucky enough to have met some of my closest friends,” she says of her time on the team.
Reported from A rower, weightlifter and strength coach, U of T grad discovers a passion for research, by Jelena Damjanovic (U of T Alumni News, August 7, 2026).
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